HIMSS11: MedAllies to demo its Direct Project pilot
MedAllies, a health information systems provider in New York's Hudson Valley, has been tapped to be part of the Direct Project, a national effort to fast track HIE.
The Hudson Valley area has been selected as one of seven pilot sites slated to go live this year. MedAllies has engaged clinicians throughout the Hudson Valley as well as their EHR vendor partners to create a Direct Project that will push critical clinical information across EHR systems to support care coordination and transitions of care, in a manner that is consistent with the clinicians' established EHR workflows.
The project will focus on common care transition episodes:
Clinical sites involved include Albany Medical Center, Asthma and Allergy Associates of Westchester, Community Care Physicians, Health Quest Medical Center, Institute for Family Health and Scarsdale Medical Group, and their EHR vendor partners: Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Greenway, NextGen Healthcare and Siemens Healthcare.
MedAllies anticipates providing a national network capable of supporting interoperability of all physicians using certified EHR systems by the end of 2011. It will demonstrate the capabilities of its Direct Project throughout the HIMSS11 Conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 20 to 24, with live demonstrations that include all of its vendor partners.
MedAllies also will offer interoperability demonstrations showcasing clinical examples of interoperability capabilities and use cases showing the transfer of patient clinical data from one provider to another. A video demonstration of the MedAllies Direct Project will also be presented in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT showcase area.
The Direct Project is a public/private collaborative dedicated to finding a secure, standards-based way for participants to send encrypted health information to trusted recipients via the internet.
The Hudson Valley area has been selected as one of seven pilot sites slated to go live this year. MedAllies has engaged clinicians throughout the Hudson Valley as well as their EHR vendor partners to create a Direct Project that will push critical clinical information across EHR systems to support care coordination and transitions of care, in a manner that is consistent with the clinicians' established EHR workflows.
The project will focus on common care transition episodes:
- Patient discharge from hospital back to their primary care physician (PCP); and
- A consultation request from a PCP to a specialist, then the clinical consultation from the specialist back to the PCP.
Clinical sites involved include Albany Medical Center, Asthma and Allergy Associates of Westchester, Community Care Physicians, Health Quest Medical Center, Institute for Family Health and Scarsdale Medical Group, and their EHR vendor partners: Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Greenway, NextGen Healthcare and Siemens Healthcare.
MedAllies anticipates providing a national network capable of supporting interoperability of all physicians using certified EHR systems by the end of 2011. It will demonstrate the capabilities of its Direct Project throughout the HIMSS11 Conference in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 20 to 24, with live demonstrations that include all of its vendor partners.
MedAllies also will offer interoperability demonstrations showcasing clinical examples of interoperability capabilities and use cases showing the transfer of patient clinical data from one provider to another. A video demonstration of the MedAllies Direct Project will also be presented in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT showcase area.
The Direct Project is a public/private collaborative dedicated to finding a secure, standards-based way for participants to send encrypted health information to trusted recipients via the internet.