Health Information Exchange (HIE)




Develops Connected Communities

To improve the delivery of patient care, clinicians require a secure technology platform that breaks down communication barriers between organizations and provides single sign on access to patient data. Orion Health HIE is designed to enhance existing healthcare services through widespread regional collaboration and exchange of clinical data between healthcare organizations. Based upon IHE and HL7 standards:

  • Clinicians can instantly access real time, complete and accurate patient information no matter where care was provided.
  • Patients as a result receive benefits from faster, more accurate services and a higher quality of overall care.

Orion Health HIE leverages the world-leading integration capabilities of Orion Health Rhapsody, allowing for seamless interaction between multiple systems as well as consistent data outputs aimed at enhancing future regional reporting and management.




Streamlines Clinical Workflow

Intelligently presenting additional value to clinicians at numerous organizations - regardless of their specific workflow practices - is a core requirement for a successful HIE. Orion Health provides two options for the exchange of data:

  • Orion Health Clinical Portal – a single sign on and highly intuitive web-based portal
  • Existing organizational EMR/EHR systems

With no need to re-engineer clinical workflows, and a rapid implementation process, widespread acceptance and adoption are guaranteed. The resulting longitudinal record is tailored specifically to clinical users and helps facilitate more-informed decision making, as well as eliminating the need for clinicians to step outside their workflow to source important patient information.

Improves Operational Efficiency

At its core the Orion Health HIE is designed to deliver efficiencies within organizations and across regions. Orion Health HIE reduces costs and increases efficiency in operations by:

  • Reducing instances of rework
  • Reducing duplication of tests / prescriptions / procedures
  • Enabling reductions in hospital admissions.

Clinicians who are armed with more complete and timely information can provide distinctly higher quality of care while simultaneously improving the coordination of this care. Patients who see several providers and receive care in more than one setting benefit hugely from this increased level of informed decision making. Patients are empowered to take a more proactive role in their own health, allowing for cost burdens to be reduced at both organizational and community level.

Achieves Meaningful Use Objectives

Orion Health HIE can help all participating organizations to fulfill Meaningful Use criteria as set forth by the HITECH Act. This necessitates that all healthcare organizations and providers must be connected in a manner that allows for the electronic exchange of health information to improve the overall quality of health care. The simple, secure and flexible nature of Orion Health HIE places the patient's interest firmly at the forefront of the information exchange. This allows for ease of engagement and inherent trust to be created in the shared community, whilst still fulfilling a completely compliant role.

Delivers a Flexible and Scalable Solution

Because we recognize the speed at which the HIE market is evolving, we build Orion Health HIE to be powerful in its flexibility, with the ability to strike at perceived future needs, threats and opportunities - both within an individual organization and across a region. Our range of ready-to-implement and easily-attachable options can address your changing business needs, by adding greater functionality to our base solution. Current additional options include:

  • Case Management
  • Patient Portal
  • Public Health reporting
  • EMR Lite
  • Secure Direct Messaging