| Ochsner Health System Goes Live with Orion Health HIE |
Physician-centric patient information delivery harnesses critical decision-making dataSANTA MONICA, CA. December 21, 2010 – Ochsner Health System, a non-profit, academic and multi-specialty healthcare delivery system in Louisiana has gone live with Orion Health™ Health Information Exchange, connecting thousands of physicians across the region to patient medical records, how and when they need it. Secure web-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology from Orion Health includes a User Subscribed Notifications capability allowing healthcare providers throughout the Ochsner Health System to receive customized alerts of patient status. The results accessed are a more tailored yet complete, patient record to improve clinical decision-making and ease care transitions regardless of where a patient received care within the health system.Chris Belmont, System Vice President and CIO of Ochsner Health System stated, “The flow of patient information to healthcare providers, especially at the onset of an HIE implementation, can be difficult to manage and digest, especially if delivery rules are set up in a centralized fashion. Orion Health HIE User Subscribed Notifications allows each of our providers to select the way in which they wish to receive information.” “For example, an endocrinologist can opt to be actively notified about HbA1c results for their patient only when the result is greater than 9.0. This flexibility and user control ensures that each user can make our HIE solution fit their specialty, preferences or workflow,” continued Mr. Belmont. The Orion Health HIE solution, which is based around a common core of features with optional components that can be added as required, makes it easier for HIEs to plan and evolve the scope of state, regional, or enterprise health information exchange projects over time. The core Orion Health HIE includes features to integrate patient data into existing systems, analyze and report trends, and improve the efficiency of healthcare business through a completely web-based solution. Paul Viskovich, Orion Health President of North America says, “Knowledge might be power, but there can be too much of a good thing. Our unique User Subscribed Notifications feature is physician-centric, putting them in control of the notifications they receive and where they want to receive them, be it email, pager or cell phone. “User Subscribed Notifications also relieves the burden of management to handle the constantly changing contact information of the staff and there wasn’t a standard way to alert and communicate with physicians when their patients received care at an Ochsner facility,” continued Mr. Viskovich. About Orion Health™ Health Information Exchange Solution Orion Health™ Health Information Exchange (HIE) Solution provides a platform for exchanging patient information between organizations and across regions to enable a shared view of the patient records and provides a foundation for community care and disease management solutions. The HIE solution offers a collection of components featuring an integration engine, enterprise master patient index (EMPI), physician and patient portals, data repository, customizable notifications, provider index, and analytical and quality reporting tools. The application aids physician to manage disease programs by automatically coordinating care tasks between multiple healthcare providers, and enabling clinicians to set up plans of care that are consistent with "best-practice" guidelines. With over 15 years of experience and more customers across the globe than any other vendor in this market, Orion Health is the leader in HIE solutions. For more information please see http://www.orionhealth.com/solutions/healthcare-organizations/health-information-exchange. About Ochsner™ Health System Ochsner Health System is a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system dedicated to patient care, research and education. The system includes eight hospitals and over 35 health centers located throughout Southeast Louisiana. Ochsner employs more than 750 physicians in over 90 medical specialties and subspecialties and more than 300 clinical research trials annually. Ochsner has more than 11,000 employees system-wide. Ochsner is a national leader in medical research with more than 300 ongoing research trials and 200 annual publications in medical literature. It is one of the largest non-university based physician training centers in the nation with over 375 medical residents, over 600 medical student months, and 400 allied health students annually. About Orion Health Inc. Orion Health™ is the leading Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution provider with expertise in clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector. Orion Health’s easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by enabling the exchange of healthcare information among disparate systems and providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By extending existing healthcare information systems, the Orion Health™ Rhapsody Integration Engine and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer. The HIE also supports Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) continuing their goal of improved care coordination, cost savings and better quality of care. Worldwide, Orion Health has deployed health information communities involving over 35 million patients with hundreds of thousands of active clinical users including Maine’s HealthInfoNet, Alberta Health Services and Spain’s IB Salut. Orion Health’s partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, Allscripts, IBM, Oracle, Philips and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including Lahey Clinic, Ochsner Health System, UCLA Medical Center, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Spain's IB Salut, South Eastern Norwegian Regional Health Authority, New Zealand Ministry of Health. Orion Health is a preferred Canada Health Infoway Solution. More information can be found at http://www.orionhealth.com. 
 
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