Orion Health - Solutions

Organizations looking for rapid solutions to patient data access and the physician time crunch now have technology on their side. Hospitals and healthcare workers need quick solutions to the issues they face on a daily basis including patient data management and access, quality of care, patient safety, and continuity of care.

While survey data indicates health care organizations are working to adopt innovative technology solutions, costs and time to implementation can mean lengthy delays before investments begin to pay off. Health care providers are in need of a faster path to more complete data access as well as streamlined views of data to improve the speed and accuracy of clinical decision making.

According to the HIMSS 2006 Leadership survey, Eighty-seven percent of surveyed hospitals have an electronic health records (EHR) system or plan to purchase one. Sixty-one percent of respondents cited electronic health records as the most important application they will implement during the next two years.

Sixty-six percent of hospitals plan to purchase single sign-on (SSO) solutions in the future, and sixty-four percent plan to purchase those solutions within the next 24 months. In addition, one in five respondents reported that purchasing SSO technology is in the top third of their technology priorities in upcoming years.

A few EHR systems already have the capability of integrating with the CCOW standard thereby allowing clinical applications to share a common clinical context at the point of care. Single sign on without CCOW integration or the comprehensive data access capabilities delivered by Concerto only solves part of the familiar problem of clinical data being locked in silos. Organizations' expectations for SSO exceed what is delivered in practice: simple password management.

By delivering a completely Unified View, doctors can search across any number of separate applications and can focus on accessing exactly the patient data they need, within one streamlined view.

Orion Health delivers a Unified View which offers a customizable, consolidated view of patient data, ensuring that doctors spend more time with their patients and less time chasing paperwork and searching for data . Orion Health's solutions hugely increase the efficiency of any legacy technology environment. A single screen (the dynamic patient summary) provides all of a patient's data easily and accessibly from a single view, regardless of underlying applications.

As well as aiding doctors with viewing data from multiple applications in a single view, the Orion Health solution allows the physician to further manipulate the data, for instance by enabling the physician to graph lab results where the data resides in multiple systems over time. From the physician's perspective, the data appears as if it were derived from a single system. Orion Health also supports integration of applications that are not CCOW enabled, providing the benefits of CCOW for legacy applications that are not CCOW aware.

Hospitals can minimize administrative costs, eliminating the need for users to log into multiple accounts by having one password for all. Searching for information is seamless, loading in seconds in real time.

By providing improved search capabilities and a unified view of data, hospitals can spur acceptance of electronic health records. Layering on top of existing data structures, the Orion Health Concerto portal provides unified view capabilities without a costly rip-and-replace strategy and on a faster timeline than can be achieved through other approaches.

Orion Health's standard architecture includes its Concerto Physician Portal, the Rhapsody Integration Engine, and cWorkflow Modules, such as Disease Management, Medical Templates, Medications Reconciliation and CPOE. Orion Health solutions are very flexible and its applications and modules integrate with any partner and or existing technology base, enabling your project to combine best -of-breed applications into a comprehensive clinical solution

Whether your existing technology environment includes a federated or centralized architecture, or a hybrid of both, Orion Health's solutions deliver results. The same architecture and software components can be easily adapted to serve as a hospital's clinical information system if desired, delivering a consistent, easy-to-use interface for clinical users no matter where they are located. Health Practitioners only require Internet access to securely access all the features, information and applications delivered by Concerto Physician Portal, both inside a hospital and across a region.

The key underlying technologies of Orion Health solutions are a Web-based, technology-independent portal integrated with single sign-on to enable access to a comprehensive healthcare record. Typical sources include lab repositories, pharmacy databases, clinical documentation and encounter systems. The portal can integrate with almost any other vendor's solutions, e.g. using single sign on to client server applications and providing access to unique application types such as Meditech, PACS viewers and more.

Orion Health's technology enables configurable exchange of healthcare information at any scale, to improve the quality of care delivered to the patient. The elimination of multiple log-ons, unnecessary administrative tasks and inadvertent occurrences of medications errors combine to yield lower costs. Complete patient information, right on time, at the point of care, reduces risks and errors, lowering the high cost of mistakes and avoiding emergency visits or hospitalizations when possible.