Connectivity Solution Facilitates Information Flow Between Healthcare Providers

A collaborative connectivity solution enables the electronic flow of clinical data securely among hospitals and physician practice settings, regardless of the electronic health records system (EHR) being used.

The Cerner (Kansas City, MO, USA) Hub, in conjunction with the Certify Data Systems' (San Jose, CA, USA) HealthDock--an intelligent, plug-and-play appliance placed in physician offices--provides the mechanism to remove a considerable amount of laborious paper processing between hospitals, physicians, reference labs, imaging centers, and other care settings. The solution enables bidirectional sharing of clinical information from patient visits such as test results, radiology reports, discharge summaries, and other clinical reports. The information is transferred in real-time into physician practice EHRs.

The Cerner Hub and the Certify HealthDock solution eliminate the need for hospital information technology (IT) staff to spend time and money developing interfaces between multiple physician practice EHR systems; improve the speed of data sharing through a real-time, secure network; provide the hospital and the physician practice complete auditing and delivery guarantees; and incorporate a distributed patient matching process that enables the physician office to ensure clinical information is delivered into the appropriate EHR. The Certify HealthDock also allows physician practices to electronically submit radiology and lab orders directly to the hospital, removing paper requisitions from the ordering process.

"Ease of connectivity is a vital missing ingredient to widespread physician acceptance of EHRs,” said Zane Burke, senior vice president at Cerner. "We identified Certify's HealthDock appliance as the best connectivity solution to enhance Cerner Hub services and to achieve Cerner's commitment to achieve true interoperability. The Cerner Hub and the Certify HealthDock create an offering that simplifies information sharing across the care continuum no matter what EHRs are in use.”

"Cerner and Certify share a common goal to help clinicians make informed decisions about patient care by providing them with the right information at the right time,” said Marc Willard, founder and CEO of Certify Data Systems. "The HealthDock will enable the Cerner Hub to share important clinical information seamlessly with primary care providers and specialists. We are very pleased to partner with a leading organization like Cerner to offer their clients our connectivity solution.”

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