Centra hospitals go live with MEGAHIT project

Jeff Byers | | Health Exec | Digital Transformation
Provider-owned organization MedVirginia and medical services provider Centra have partnered to enable Centra’s three hospitals to go live with the Social Security Administration (SSA) MEGAHIT project.

MEGAHIT helps automate the process of requesting and receiving EHRs from healthcare providers, according to SSA's website.

Centra Lynchburg General Hospital and Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital, both in Lynchburg, Va., and Centra Southside Community Hospital in Farmville, Va., are now live with MEGAHIT, according to MedVirginia.

In this expansion, Richmond, Va.-based MedVirginia leveraged its health information exchange infrastructure and CONNECT gateway to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) by establishing a link with Centra’s clinical information system.

The information exchange is based on the HITSP/C32 Continuity of Care Document (CCD) format. Centra’s clinical data repository is being connected in a federated manner; it will remain separate from MedVirginia’s clinical data repository and transactions will flow across MedVirginia’s CONNECT gateway to the NwHIN, MedVirginia added.

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