Colorado communities get connected with Axolotl

The Western Colorado communities of Aspen and Montrose have been added to the Quality Health Network (QHN) health information exchange (HIE), according to HIE company Axolotl. The expansion will allow more than 20 hospitals and attendant physicians in the 40,000 square miles of Western Colorado to share clinical information, according to the San Jose, Calif.-based company.

The Grand Junction, Colo.-based nonprofit QHN, deployed Axolotl’s Elysium Exchange platform, providing a clinical messaging infrastructure that allows authorized physicians to share clinical data at the point of care between and among disparate hospital and EMR systems, according to Axolotl.

QHN participants may also share laboratory results, radiology reports, ER reports, progress notes and medications lists, while the flexible data model provides physicians with the ability to aggregate medical history from across the care continuum into a single patient medical record, the company said.

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