Quovadx to Present Strategies for Standards-Based Interoperability in a Service Oriented Architecture.Quovadx Continues to Share Best Practices in Interoperability at HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2007 Annual Conference and Exhibition GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. -- Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), a global software and vertical solutions company, today announced its participation in the upcoming Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Annual Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS 2007). As part of the company's activities at the conference, Rey Currie, vice president of product management, Quovadx, will present strategies for leveraging legacy applications to support standards-based interoperability in a web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. environment. Quovadx will also host a series of events during the course of the conference. HIMSS 2007 will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is a collection of buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana. The lower end of building one is located 500 m (1640 feet) upriver from Canal Street on the banks of the Mississippi River. Named after former mayor of New Orleans Ernest N. in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana from February 25-March 1, 2007. Rey Currie's presentation, entitled "Leveraging Legacy Applications to Enable IHE IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise IHE Institutions of Higher Education IHE International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (historical acronym only, replaced by: IHE Delft, the Foundation) Document Sharing See data conferencing. within a Service Oriented Architecture," will highlight best practices in using the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. In 1997, a consortium of radiologists and information technology experts formed IHE, or “Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. (IHE) framework for healthcare interoperability to facilitate document sharing across the enterprise. Further, Mr. Currie will cover the promise of utilizing service oriented architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) in the healthcare enterprise and solutions integrating legacy applications and IHE within a SOA environment. "Healthcare organizations are facing many hurdles to embracing SOA such as a high number of legacy applications that are not SOA ready," said Rey Currie, vice president of product management, Quovadx. "By using IHE's framework for healthcare interoperability, and non-invasive solutions to connect legacy applications and implement IHE profiles within a SOA environment, such as Cloverleaf[R] Integration Suite, healthcare organizations can increase their ability to exchange documents within and outside their four walls to increase efficiency and improve patient care." In the course of the presentation, attention will be placed on the value of IHE's framework for healthcare interoperability in improving the quality and efficiency of care and providing a framework for universal data access between healthcare organizations and functions. Further, SOA and web services will be examined in context of facilitating the creation of new user functionality by mixing and matching established applications, components from newer applications and internally developed code. In addition to Mr. Currie's presentation, Quovadx will be hosting several other programs during HIMSS 2007: * Healthcare Executive Dinner & Networking Event - Quovadx, in collaboration with Intel, will host an interactive dinner for healthcare executives featuring formal remarks from Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Founder of the Center for Health Transformation. Mr. Gingrich will share his insight and experience with health providers across the country that are embracing interoperability solutions, and as a result, are improving patient safety and quality of care, and reducing costs. * Breakfast Forums * The Value of Patient Medication History at the Point-of-Care - Quovadx will team with RxHub to host a breakfast forum on the impact of patient medication history at the point-of-care. This breakfast session, lead by Ken Majkowski, PharmD, vice president, clinical affairs, RxHub, and Jerry Rankin, director of health information network initiatives for Quovadx, will discuss the Joint Commission's patient safety requirements for medication reconciliation, discuss pilot projects and case studies and introduce an automated approach to accessing accurate and detailed medication history at point-of-care. * Transforming Healthcare for Payers & Providers - Infosys and Quovadx will discuss how organizations can focus on helping organizations transform disparate data networks into a congruent con·gru·ent adj. 1. Corresponding; congruous. 2. Mathematics a. Coinciding exactly when superimposed: congruent triangles. b. source of information enabling patient-centric data transparency (1) The ability to easily access and work with data no matter where they are located or what application created them. (2) The assurance that data being reported are accurate and are coming from the official source. . During the discussion, the two organizations will share their experience as partners and individually in helping healthcare organizations to standardize how health information is managed. * Clinical Interoperability Partner Panel - This 30-minute panel discussion will feature speakers from RxHub, Infosys and 3M Health Information Systems, and will provide insight as to how HIT's organization can use Cloverleaf[R] health interoperability software and services to extend the interoperability reach of their products to their customers and partners, connect to additional data sources, such as pharmacy and lab data and act as a data source and intermediary for other data consuming applications, governing bodies and business partner systems, including RHIO RHIO Regional Health Information Organization participation. * Terminology Standardization for Clinical Interoperability - Jerry Rankin, director of health information network initiatives for Quovadx, will join Kasey Poon poon n. Any of several trees of the genus Calophyllum, of southern Asia, having light hard wood used for masts and spars. [Sinhalese p , M.D. and Medical Informaticist for the Healthcare Data Dictionary A database about data and databases. It holds the name, type, range of values, source, and authorization for access for each data element in the organization's files and databases. Group of 3M Health Information Systems in a discussion of terminology and coding in the industry today. The session will cover who would use standard terminologies including why and how, current deployment and capabilities. * Clinical Engineering and IT Leadership Forum - Leslie Kelly Hall, director of technology consulting at HDR (1) (High Data Rate) A wireless data technology from QUALCOMM that provides up to a 2.4 Mbps data rate in a standard 1.25MHz CDMA voice channel. HDR can be used to enhance data capabilities in existing cdmaOne networks or in stand-alone data networks. , and Tony Caruso of Duke University Health System will address the importance of strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. of new medical technologies and the importance of facilitating interoperability solutions as part of the IHE initiative to the safety and efficacy of the healthcare environment. Mr. Currie's presentation will be held in the Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS on Tuesday, February 27th, 11:45 am. A full schedule of Quovadx events and additional details can be found online at http://www.isd-quovadx.com/isdevents/2007-himss/index.cfm. To RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. for any of the events above or included online, please contact Cari Meredith at 720-554-1252. Quovadx will also be exhibiting at HIMSS 2007 at booth number 7237. About Cloverleaf[R] Integration Suite The Cloverleaf Integration Suite, a system integration solution for healthcare providers and payers, has installations in over 2,000 sites worldwide and in 40 percent of all large IDNs (Integrated Delivery Networks) in the U.S. Cloverleaf technology connects disparate IT systems and applications across an enterprise or beyond, normalizes the data for presentation and transforms the data into value-rich information. Based on a flexible and reliable messaging platform, the Cloverleaf solution enables real-time sharing of clinical, administrative and financial data throughout an organization, maximizing the value of existing technology systems and decreasing the cost of integrating the healthcare enterprise. About Quovadx, Inc. Quovadx (Nasdaq: QVDX) offers software and services for system development, extension, integration and analysis to enterprise customers worldwide. Quovadx has three divisions, including the Integration Solutions division (ISD See IDD. ), which offers private and public healthcare organizations software infrastructure to facilitate system interoperability and leverage existing technology; the CareScience division, which provides care management and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems and pioneered regional healthcare information organization (RHIO) technology; and the Rogue Wave rogue wave n. An unpredictable, abnormally large wave that occurs on a seemingly random basis in the oceans. Software division, which provides software and services for enterprise-class application development and high-performance SOA. Quovadx serves companies in the healthcare, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , telecommunication and public sectors. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com. QUOVADX and Cloverleaf are registered trademarks of Quovadx, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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