Public Health Integration

The public health challenge facing communities and governments has never been greater

Improving healthcare through information technology (IT) has become a national priority and is increasingly important to healthcare and political leaders globally.

Local, state and federal public health agencies are looking for ways to automate and improve the information available about their communities. Monitoring and improving the health of large populations requires complete, accurate, and timely reporting of healthcare data. However currently, processes are often manual, resulting in incomplete and delayed reporting.

Orion Health has been investing in and implementing public health solutions since the late 1990’s. Orion Health Rhapsody Connect is the only innovative solution specifically designed for public health that automates reporting to provide fast, secure transmission of data between providers, public health agencies and other trading partners for effective health information exchange.

Rhapsody Connect offers a number of preconfigured Profiles to support regional or national public health programs for timely, accurate and complete public health reporting.

Disease/Syndrome Surveillance Initiatives

More than 43 states across the U.S are using Orion Health Rhapsody integration technology to improve nation-wide data collection and reporting for public health. This makes Rhapsody the most widely adopted integration platform for public health being used today. Rhapsody Connect is a sleek device that enables extraction, normalization and secure transmission of a broad set of data directly from the source location.

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More than 43 states across the U.S are using Orion Health Rhapsody

Rhapsody is the primary integration product for a number of programs administered by the CDC such as the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Message Subscription Service (MSS) and BioSense.

Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR)

Rhapsody has the highest rate of adoption among national clinical reference laboratories in the U.S. as a key cost-saving technology. LabCorp, Quest, STARLIMS, ARUP laboratories and many others are active Rhapsody users. This breadth of use allows a state health department or public health initiative to quickly and easily connect with laboratories across the nation. In addition, most state health departments already use Rhapsody to process ELR data from local hospitals and laboratories.

Standards Based Initiatives

Rhapsody Connect specializes in the secure delivery of sensitive healthcare information. Rhapsody’s advanced technology provides the functionality to develop robust, reliable interoperability between networks. Orion Health continues to be a leader in the adoption of healthcare standards for exchange of public health data.

Orion Health Expertise

Orion Health provides essential services and support such as initial training for early adopters of any new public health initiatives. Orion Health can take project ownership and administer full statewide delivery of ELR, Case Reporting, Discharge Reporting and other Profiles if required.

Rhapsody Connect’s ease of use and powerful monitoring and maintenance tools promote rapid adoption and allow customers to quickly gain the expertise required to manage interface development projects internally if preferred.

Orion Health has the benefit of more than 15 years integration experience and industry expertise to deliver public health reporting solutions.

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