Misys Healthcare Systems Provides Doctors With New Data Sharing Solution

Business Wire, Feb 14, 2005

DALLAS -- Enabling physicians to connect with each other, hospitals, home care providers and patients, regardless of their current technology platform, Misys Healthcare Systems today introduced Misys Connect(TM), a new Web-based data sharing solution.

Misys Connect gives physicians a single, secure source where they can view patient data from any care setting or clinical system. With Misys Connect, hospitals can connect with community physicians, home care and long-term care providers, and access important patient information around the clock from virtually any location as part of a truly connected healthcare community. The new product is part of Misys Optimum(TM), a family of products that promote patient information sharing across organizational boundaries, healthcare settings and technological platforms.

"Physicians need immediate access to data - wherever it is and from whatever source holds it," said Tom Skelton, CEO of Misys Healthcare Systems. "Misys Connect provides doctors a seamless way to get to this data without leaving the application they are currently working in."

With Misys Connect, medical records are accessible in two distinct ways: through a stand-alone Web application that can be accessed from any location with Internet connectivity; and through a Misys or third-party clinical solution that integrates Misys Connect network services within its relevant workflows.

Misys Connect will be available early next year and will be used in a "test release" later this summer at a handful of leading U.S. healthcare organizations, such as Arnot Health in New York.

"Misys Connect and Misys Optimum are critical components of a strategy that will help Arnot Health reach our objective of establishing a community-shared EHR accessed by both our hospital-based and community-based doctors," said Gregg Martin, CIO with Arnot Health. "The efficient exchange of just-in-time data across all care delivery settings promises countless benefits to patients and caregivers alike."

Misys Connect utilizes Internet protocols, including HTTPS and XML, to provide access to enterprise and community-based electronic patient health records and transmissions of data on demand among participating systems. Misys Connect uses Web services, industry-standard messages (HL7) and document types (CCR, CDA) for asynchronously communicating information about users, patients, patient encounters and master file updates among systems and support services. Both service and message interfaces are Web-based and bi-directional. Data such as patient demographics, medication information, allergies, test results and problem lists can be imported into any participating system from any other participating system.

About Misys Healthcare Systems

Misys Healthcare Systems, one of the top five healthcare IT companies in North America, develops and supports reliable, easy-to-use software and services of exceptional quality that enable physicians and caregivers to more easily manage the complexities of healthcare. With 25 years of industry experience, Misys currently serves more than 92,000 physicians in 18,000 practice locations, 1,250 hospitals, 600 home care providers and hundreds of commercial laboratories, clinics, managed services and other related organizations. Misys' family of leading clinical products and Web-based technologies - Misys Optimum(TM) solutions - are designed from the ground up to share patient data across all medical care settings. Misys Optimum connects community-based physicians and caregivers to the acute care enterprise, enabling increased efficiencies, better decision-making and improved hospital-physician relations. For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com.

About Misys plc

Misys plc, the global software products and solutions company, serves customers in the international banking and securities, international healthcare, and UK general insurance industries. Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Sesame, it also provides business process outsourcing to services to independent financial advisors (IFAs) in the UK. Misys partners with its customers to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries, and employs over 6,000 people internationally. For more information, visit www.misys.com.