Enhancing Quality and Cutting Costs

Healthcare firms generate a tremendous amount of information, and store it in very complex IT infrastructures, with a wide array of  systems.  As healthcare reform guidelines become more rigid, and the need to enhance care quality while containing expenses becomes priority number one, the move towards “meaningful use” continues to rise.  More and more, healthcare firms are realizing the importance of improving the way information is unified and synchronized, as well as shared and utilized among all stakeholders throughout the patient care cycle.

As a result, the need for solid integration infrastructure, combined with an effective, broad-reaching enterprise information management (EIM) strategy, has become increasingly urgent in today’s healthcare marketplace.

iWay Software’s enterprise integration and EIM solutions are helping healthcare organizations to streamline clinical and financial operations, implement key initiatives, and ensure regulatory compliance, while preserving IT investments.

iWay Software's Enterprise Master Patient Index Solution

iWay Software’s Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) creates a fully integrated delivery network for patient information across a wide array of disparate systems for patient registration, scheduling, clinical management, laboratory reporting, and more. Built on a robust foundation that includes the iWay Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Suite, this comprehensive repository makes it easier and more cost-effective to track and coordinate critical medical information across multiple boundaries and jurisdictions, including patient electronic health records (EHRs), immunizations, physicians and care providers, quality reporting indicators, prescriptions, laboratories, and electronic lab orders.

The iWay EMPI delivers a comprehensive framework for the handling, storage, access, and sharing of patient data and related medical information. It includes:

• A central website
• Healthcare information translation tools
• A master patient index (MPI)
• A record locator service with intuitive search and identification capabilities
• A powerful authentication and authorization infrastructure
• Applications to aggregate information from multiple sources
• Secure messaging
• High capacity and ad hoc file transfers

iWay Software's Health Information Exchange Solution

Many industry experts believe that the isolation of information, among other problems, makes a solid business case for creating Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). With HIEs, healthcare facilities and their partners can share vital clinical data and other information seamlessly, moving it between systems without compromising its context or integrity. As a result, HIEs can transform and enhance the way physicians practice medicine, facilitating an environment that is safer, more productive and cost-efficient, and focused more on the patient.  Our HIE solution meets the following key criteria:

Clinical Message Service

• Standardized formats (HL7 v3, ANSI X12, CDA, ICD9/ICD10 code sets, LOINC code sets, etc.)
• Data quality/enrichment
• Secure communication
• Master provider directory
• EHR integration

Patient Look-Up Service

• Master patient index (EMPI)
• Look-up service (RLS)
• Portal and search interface
• EHR integration
• Aggregated records from multiple sources

Quality Metrics Service

• Aggregated records across multiple patients
• Meet reporting requirements of physicians, providers, and public health (Medicare, Medicaid, etc.)
• Performance management/balanced scorecards for quality outcomes
• Meet HHS meaningful use criteria

Other iWay Software Healthcare related offerings

iWay Integration Adapters– This market-leading suite of pre-packaged integration components facilitates the creation of a centralized repository/directory of patient and provider information by rapidly collecting data from virtually any source, on any platform – with no custom coding required. Data can be gathered in a wide range of standardized formats, such as HL7 v3, ANSI X12, CDA, ICD10 code sets, or LOINC code sets, from a variety of popular systems including Vista, EPIC, QCPR, and Meditech.

iWay Service Manager– A unique Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that enables the creation, composition, and management of both web services and services invoked through alternate interfaces, the iWay Service Manager also provides:

• Secure multi-channel integration that enables secure messaging, file transfers, and web services with HL7, HIPAA, EDI, and other message formats
• The ability to support multiple channels, including managed file transfer, ad hoc file transfer, AS2, and HTTPS
• A web-based trading partner manager that allows for the definition of all internal and external entities within the EMPI, as well as the various relationships between them
• Dynamic business activity monitoring, for end-to-end tracking of transactions and workflows across multiple applications and business units, as well as the display and assessment of trading partner metrics

iWay Software’s Healthcare Partners

• IBM
• TriZetto® Group, Inc.