InterSystems HealthShare is a comprehensive healthcare informatics platform designed to serve
hospital
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s,
Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), and regional and national
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs).
About
HealthShare includes
health information exchange
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is the electronic exchange of health care information across organizations within a region, community, or hospital system. Participants in this data exchange are collectively called Health Information Networks (HI ...
, data aggregation, work flow, text analysis, and analytics technology. It connects to internal and external systems for HIE, and offers an integrated, universal view of all the data. The software also offers a real-time analytics component, called Active Analytics, that continuously collects, aggregates, normalizes, and presents data from across and beyond the organization. Because it is designed as a series of components that work securely together, HealthShare can be configured in a variety of ways, from clinical document sharing, to fully integrated private or public health information exchange. HealthShare components include:
* Foundation
* Composite Health Record
* Clinician Viewer
* Patient Index
* Provider Directory
* Terminology Engine
*
Consent Management
* Clinical Message Delivery
* Active Analytics
InterSystems HealthShare has been implemented in the state of
Missouri
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, state of
Illinois
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, state of
Rhode Island
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, New York eHealth Collaborative, Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX) HealthIX, Health Information Xchange of New York (
Hixny), and Beaumont Health System.
Architecture
The HealthShare standards-based
interoperability framework provides a scalable foundation for
health information exchange
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is the electronic exchange of health care information across organizations within a region, community, or hospital system. Participants in this data exchange are collectively called Health Information Networks (HI ...
. It connects data, applications, processes, and users internally and externally of an organization.
Supported standards include:
*
HL7
*
FHIR
*
IHE
*
CDA
*
CCD
*
DICOM
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* X12
*
NwHIN Direct
*
ITK (United Kingdom)
*
NEHTA (Australia)
*
DMP (France)
Competitors
The main competitors are vendors of other integration engines for healthcare such as
Optum
Optum, Inc. is an American healthcare company that provides technology services, pharmacy care services (including a pharmacy benefit manager) and various direct healthcare services.
Optum was formed as a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group in ...
, eClinical Works,
dbMotion, and MEDecision.
References
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