CareScience Announces Clinical Data Sharing Solution to Link Community Healthcare Providers.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers/High-Tech Writers ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2004 Care Data Exchange(R) Solution Allows Healthcare Providers to Seamlessly and Securely Share Patient Data with Participating Physicians, Labs and other Care Suppliers CareScience, a leading care management company and an operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDXE) today announced the general availability of the Care Data Exchange(R) solution. The Care Data Exchange (CDE (1) (Computer Desktop Encyclopedia) What you are reading at this very moment. See About this product. (2) (Common Desktop Environment) A user interface for desktop computing from The Open Group. ) solution is the first replicable brokered peer-to-peer clinical data exchange solution that enables healthcare providers to improve the quality, speed and accuracy of patient care through the secure sharing of clinical data at the point-of-care. The Care Data Exchange solution was developed by CareScience in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. County Care Data Exchange project and the California HealthCare Foundation. "The benefits of engaging innovative technology to create a secure, accurate and complete patient record are substantial. While this theoretical concept has been lauded by the medical community and health policy advocates for years, this is the first time a viable community-wide, patient-centric model for moving toward electronic healthcare records has been commercially available," said Nick Augustinos, vice president, CareScience. The Care Data Exchange solution combines technology, facilitation Facilitation The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions. and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services to enable enterprise or community-wide data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , ultimately contributing to lowering the cost of care, reducing errors, speeding data transport and eliminating redundancies. Currently, the CDE solution is being implemented in two distinct communities. The Santa Barbara County CDE project in California is now in the final stages of user acceptance testing (testing) user acceptance testing - The type of testing where monitored users determine whether a system meets all their requirements, and will support the business for which it was designed. and is expected to be fully operational in 2004. A second CDE project is currently underway in Colorado. The Mesa County Health Information Network (MCHIN), in Mesa County, Colorado Mesa County is the fourth most extensive and the eleventh most populous of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado in the United States. The county was named for the many large mesas in the area, including Grand Mesa, the most extensive mesa on Earth. , has begun the evaluation phase of a Care Data Exchange implementation and could be in production within 9-12 months' time. The MCHIN, with the help of the Care Data Exchange solution, will allow member healthcare providers and their staffs to efficiently access a longitudinal electronic health record for the patients under their care, in compliance with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, regulations. "The Care Data Exchange solution addresses a wide variety of clinical data concerns, such as patient identity resolution, consent management and results display, while meeting growing HIPAA and security regulations," said Curt Hatch, executive director of the Mesa County IPA IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet . We believe these features will reduce medical errors, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and ambulatory Movable; revocable; subject to change; capable of alteration. An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King's Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found, moving its location as the king moved. visits and minimize duplicate testing duplicate testing Lab medicine The inappropriate repeating of lab or other diagnostic evaluations–eg, CBC, U/A, CK-MB, BMP, more often than allowed by Medicare or third party payers as a comprehensive view of patients' clinical information becomes routinely available." A heavy reliance on paper-based medical records, combined with disparate, enterprise-specific legacy systems has prevented access to clinical records among the various affiliated healthcare institutions or those in close geographic proximity. The CDE solution offers a controlled, secure and cost-effective way to access patient information and allows for full, local control of data assets by participating healthcare providers. The CDE solution can be deployed as a community data sharing solution across multiple organizations and provider settings through the Community Data Exchange, or as an enterprise solution for individual organizations via the Enterprise Data Exchange, deployed with or without connections to local business or clinical partners. Benefits of the Community Data Exchange solution include: -- A patient-centric view of clinical data across the community - essential for clinical safety and efficient care delivery -- An automated, HIPAA-compliant copy of key medical record components, authorized user authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal only access and an audit trail for record viewing -- A highly scalable model for internal and cross-enterprise data sharing with low marginal expansion costs -- Full, local control of their respective data assets for each participating organization Benefits of the Enterprise Data Exchange solution include: -- Fast, cost-effective and secure delivery of up-to-date patient information to clinicians from anywhere, to anywhere -- Integration with existing clinical systems and IT environments -- Incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. deployment and modification capabilities to meet organizations' needs as they grow and evolve -- A cost-effective alternative to proprietary HIS solutions "We are very excited by the commercial launch of the Care Data Exchange solution," said Ronald Paulus, chief healthcare officer, Quovadx. "This unique solution is the culmination of our long-standing desire to contribute to increased quality, safety and cost efficiency for healthcare patients in communities throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ." The Care Data Exchange Solution is now available through the CareScience unit of Quovadx. The solution is implemented in two parts, beginning with an assessment of a community's needs and current IT infrastructure. The second phase encompasses a pilot implementation and general availability release planning. About CareScience CareScience, an operating unit of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDXE), is one of the nation's leading providers of care management services to hospitals and health systems and a pioneer in community-wide clinical data exchange. CareScience supplies the people and technology to ensure that high quality care is delivered, throughout the healthcare system, through clinical data access and clinical process transformation. For more information, please visit www.carescience.com. QUOVADX is a trademark of Quovadx, Inc. and CareScience is a registered trademark of Quovadx, Inc. Care Data Exchange is a registered trademark of the California Healthcare Foundation. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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