Winchester Hospital Selects Medicity's Clinical Integration Platform for Physician Connectivity

Business Wire, Jan 5, 2007

Medicity Will Deploy Its EMR Gateway and Data Staging Infrastructure to Give Physicians Options for Accessing Consolidated Patient Clinical Information

SALT LAKE CITY -- Medicity, Inc., will deploy its Clinical Integration Platform to collect and distribute electronic clinical data from Winchester Hospital to its physician constituencies. The Medicity platform--which includes a Data Staging Infrastructure, Community Master Patient Index, Physician Portal and EMR Gateway solution--delivers complete patient information that is vital for making care decisions. Winchester Hospital's deployment will include laboratory results, pathology results, medication histories, radiology reads, transcriptions, and other patient data.

Medicity's integration solution is tailored to meet the delivery needs of every physician regardless of the level of office technology adoption. The system gives physician offices options for how they will receive clinical data. For example, the Clinical Integration Platform includes a web-native viewing application (the Provider Portal) that makes data accessible using a standard web browser from any Internet-connected computer. Practices that have invested in office EMRs can request an electronic feed of patient results via the web-services technology of Medicity's EMR Gateway. For those who prefer paper, new patient results can be sent to a fax machine or an office printer.

To gather disparate patient data into a single longitudinal record, Winchester Hospital will utilize Medicity's Community Master Patient Index, which ensures that incoming patient results are accurately tied to the patient's historical record. This indexing will be critical in seamlessly integrating data from Winchester Hospital into physician-office EMR applications.

Winchester Hospital will also employ this new information infrastructure to enable outreach objectives for both imaging and laboratory services. The Clinical Integration Platform will support outpatient orders for several hospital services. Physicians will be able to initiate orders via the Provider Portal or the office EMR. The convenience to physicians gives practices incentive to use the hospital facilities for outpatient testing and imaging.

"Winchester Hospital is committed to the highest standards of patient care," said Gerald Greeley, CIO of Winchester Hospital. "When we decided to move forward with this initiative, management elected to invest in more than portal technology. Our selection committee chose Medicity's clinical interoperability platform as a foundation for future projects involving clinical data analysis, publication, and community information exchange--such things as outcomes analysis, pay-for-performance initiatives, and public health reporting--to name just a few."

The project will begin in the first quarter of 2007 and offer user services before the end of the calendar year.

Winchester Hospital is a 206-bed hospital in the northeast Boston suburban area, serving Winchester and surrounding communities with acute-care inpatient services and integrated home care.

About Medicity

Medicity, Inc. is a clinical integration and interoperability company serving hospitals, large physician groups, and payors. Company clients include more than 2,000 healthcare organizations. It has been connecting Healthcare since 1998. For more information please visit www.medicity.com.