CHICAGO (December 9, 2009) – Accenx™, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in data management solutions for information sharing and improved data quality, reports that MemorialCare Medical Centers continues to endorse its choice of Accenx’ solution, Accenx™ Exchange, as the interoperability platform to support its physician outreach program; commending their relationship with Accenx so far.
MemorialCare is a nationally-recognized hospital system serving southern California. Priding itself on having one of the nation’s top integrated delivery systems, MemorialCare sought a solution that would better its community physicians’ ability to access patients’ information from the main health system. Earlier this year, MemorialCare chose Accenx to provide a low-cost solution which was rapidly and easily integrated into its systems, giving doctors seamless access to the data they needed.
MemorialCare’s CIO has a favorable view of the Accenx Exchange platform, a wide-area integration platform for creating health information exchanges. “Accenx gives us a very powerful system, at a very reasonable cost. We can roll it out incrementally as our physicians begin to adopt these kinds of technologies – so it’s a pay-as-you-go method,” said J. Scott Joslyn, senior vice president and chief information officer at MemorialCare.
Utilizing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, Accenx Exchange enables MemorialCare to deliver bi-directional orders and results to physician practices with an Electronic Medical Record (EMR), as well as to practices using paper charts. This high level of interoperability is achieved as a fully-managed service with only a small hardware appliance in each location. This eliminates the costs, risks and support challenges inherent with installing proprietary software, in hundreds of locations, widely dispersed throughout the community.
“Some of our physicians have been waiting seven years for an interface with their EMR to the inpatient EMR and Accenx has achieved that in less than four weeks,” said Laurie
Sicaeros, vice president, Physician Integration at MemorialCare. “It brings back the reputation that you are going to do what you say you are going to do.”
To view the entire MemorialCare Medical Centers story, including what their physicians have to say of the implementation, visit www.accenx.com.
About Initiate Systems
Initiate Systems enables organizations to confidently share critical data assets. Multinational corporations, healthcare organizations and government agencies rely on Initiate® software and services to deliver complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems, domains or databases. Initiate’s multi-domain master data management (MDM) solutions facilitate interoperability, information sharing, entity resolution and data quality to increase revenues, reduce costs and mitigate risks. Initiate operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and in Toronto, London and Sydney.
For more information, visit www.Initiate.com.
On October 30, 2009, Accenx Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Initiate Systems, Inc. For more information visit: Initiate Systems Acquires Accenx Technologies.
About Accenx
AccenxTM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Initiate Systems Inc., is a leading provider of health information exchange and interoperability solutions for connecting hospitals, physicians and other healthcare organizations. With Accenx, hospitals have both a trusted partner who will share the risk of the project, and a superior solution that maximizes physician adoption to accelerate benefits to the hospital. Accenx clients include BayCare Health System, Baystate Health, Cascade Healthcare Community, OhioHealth and MemorialCare Medical Centers. Accenx corporate headquarters are located in Irvine, California.
For more information, visit www.accenx.com.
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