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InterSystems HealthShare Supports National Healthcare Identifiers Service and Secure Messaging Delivery Standards
Mater Health Services’ electronic
health record interface to the Australian Government’s
Healthcare Identifiers Service one of the first to gain
NEHTA accreditation
SYDNEY, Australia – January 11, 2012 –
InterSystems
Corporation, today announced that it has
provided software to healthcare organisations – including
InterSystems HealthShare™
to Queensland’s Mater Health Services – to rapidly develop
systems that support the Australian national Healthcare
Identifiers Service and Secure Messaging Delivery
standards.
InterSystems HealthShare is a strategic platform for
healthcare informatics and the creation of an Electronic
Health Record on a regional or national scale.
By supporting Australian connected healthcare services and
standards, InterSystems is accelerating the delivery of
systems under government electronic health record
initiatives. Through compliance with Australian standards,
InterSystems will also lower the cost of maintaining
connected care systems.
Mater Health Services, which operates seven Mater
hospitals in South-East Queensland, has already used
HealthShare to develop an interface to the national
Healthcare Identifiers Service. The interface was one of
the first to gain accreditation under the Compliance,
Conformance and Accreditation program operated by the
National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).
Mater – and other Australian InterSystems customers
including SA Health – can also now communicate with other
healthcare providers using the Secure Messaging Delivery
technical specification developed by NEHTA and published
by Standards Australia.
Mater was the recipient of a Personally Controlled
Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) eHealth Site Grant from
the Department of Health and Ageing. The grants are part
of the federal government’s initiative to introduce
electronic health records for the Australian population.
All grant recipients for PCEHR projects need to support
the national Health Identifiers Service and the Secure
Messaging Delivery standards.
Mater’s Chief Information Officer Mal Thatcher said the
Mater Shared Electronic Health Record (MSEHR) will
ultimately integrate with and support the national PCEHR.
“The project will initially develop and implement a
repository for obstetric information with access for
maternity patients, internal clinicians and affiliated
external healthcare providers,” Mr Thatcher said.
HealthShare extends the capabilities of Mater’s existing
InterSystems-supported Electronic Health Record. It
connects over 95 clinical and patient administration
systems at Mater and also provides message translation for
the HL7 healthcare interoperability standard and permanent
storage of HL7 messages.
By connecting to the national Health Identifiers Service
operated by Medicare Australia, Mater will incorporate
Healthcare Identifiers to its MSEHR as part of the
development. As well as storing the clinical information
submitted by patients, participating external providers
and Mater, the repository will use Healthcare Identifiers
in Mater’s exchange of information with other healthcare
repositories. The use of Healthcare Identifiers will
ensure that the information delivered is matched to the
right person, at the right time, in the right place.
Mater’s Integration Specialist Andy Richards said
InterSystems had been “incredibly supportive”.
“We started the development for the Health
Identifiers Service towards the end of 2010 and
InterSystems developed something that not only works but
is a better solution than we could have developed by
ourselves,” Mr Richards said.
With added support for the national Secure Messaging
Delivery standards, HealthShare allows Mater to
communicate with other healthcare providers regardless of
their secure messaging systems.
“This is where InterSystems gives us an edge,” Mr Richards
said.
“One of the advantages HealthShare has given us is that we
can create new interfaces quickly without having to
rebuild interfaces to other systems.”
“InterSystems is committed to providing healthcare
organisations with solutions that accelerate the delivery
and lower the cost of connected care systems and which
support Australian services and standards,” said Steve
Garrington, Commercial Director for InterSystems. “We
congratulate Mater on gaining accreditation for its Health
Identifiers Service interface – no doubt one of many more
to come.”
About InterSystems
InterSystems Corporation is a worldwide leader in
breakthrough solutions for connected care with
headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in
23 countries. InterSystems HealthShare™
is a strategic platform for healthcare informatics, and
the creation of an Electronic Health Record on a regional
or national scale. InterSystems TrakCare™ is a
Web-based unified healthcare information system that
rapidly provides the benefits of an Electronic Patient
Record (TrakCare is not available in the United States). InterSystems DeepSee™
is software that makes it possible to embed real-time
analytics capabilities in transactional
applications. InterSystems CACHÉ®
is the most widely-used database in clinical applications.
InterSystems Ensemble®
is a seamless platform for integration and the development
of connectable applications.
About the Mater Shared Electronic Health Record
The Mater Shared Electronic Health Record (MSEHR) program will initially deliver an electronic alternative to the paper based Pregnancy Health Record currently used in Mater Mothers’ Hospitals. Incorporating existing Mater Provider Portals with a new Mater Patient Portal, MSEHR aims to improve patient care through the sharing of information between general practitioners, visiting medical officers, maternity patients and Mater Mothers’ Hospitals.
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Editorial Contact
Chris Bowes
Bowes Communications
+61 (0)2 9387 2332
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