Bay Area Community Informatics Agency Selects Medicity's Clinical Integration Platform.

SALT LAKE CITY & COOS BAY, Ore. -- Medicity, Inc., a leading provider of eHealth solutions, with Bay Area Community Informatics Agency (BACIA), an emerging regional health information exchange of rural Oregon Coast healthcare organizations, announce the selection of Medicity's MediTrust interoperability platform and ProAccess clinical application suite as BACIA's clinical integration infrastructure for its health information exchange initiative.

"We have made significant strides toward a complete clinical record for our citizens along the rural Oregon coast," explains Bob Adams, Information Services Manager for Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Oregon. "Our stakeholders--including eight health care organizations in the region--have reached remarkable consensus on strategy. The next steps are contracting with Medicity and beginning the implementation later this year," continues Adams.

Dr. Jeffery Givens of North Bend Medical Center adds, "Medicity's solution will give us the optimum infrastructure for accomplishing our mission, which is to promote the electronic exchange of data between health care organizations in order to provide caregivers accurate and up-to-date information. Many of our members are acquiring EMRs and other clinical information systems. We intend to utilize Medicity's MediTrust clinical interoperability platform and ProAccess clinical applications to allow each organization in BACIA to contribute and share clinical information across the full continuum of care in our service area."

"BACIA is a model partner for us," emphasizes Kipp Lassetter, Medicity's CEO. "They have taken the lead in organizing one of the first regional electronic health record initiatives of its kind, with the wide variety of healthcare providers that have agreed to participate. We are excited about providing the software platform and expertise to make their vision a reality, and we are confident that patient safety and efficiency of care will be greatly improved as a result of connecting this community."

Medicity has been widely recognized for its software product line which manages the complex issues of clinical data integration between legacy systems within a healthcare enterprise and amongst the diverse clinical data sources found in the broader community. The complete Medicity product offering includes both software infrastructure and application components.

About Medicity

Medicity, Inc. is a clinical integration and interoperability company serving hospitals, large physician groups, RHIOs/HIEs, and payors. Company clients include thousands of healthcare organizations. It has been connecting Healthcare since 1998. For more information please visit www.medicity.com.

About Bay Area Community Informatics Agency

The Bay Area Community Informatics Agency (BACIA) is a recipient of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Planning Grant and represents a consortium of rural Oregon Coast healthcare organizations that wish to implement health information technology. They recognize the need for efficient and timely transmission of patient data to achieve the goals of improving safety and quality of care, reducing medical errors, improving patient satisfaction with care, and obtaining better outcomes in chronic disease management.