Interoperability

Meaningful Use mandate led the way for making every healthcare system interoperable. This will streamline and standardize communication between healthcare entities. Interoperability initiatives are gaining pace in the healthcare ecosystem and so are the vendors and covered entities focusing to become interoperable.

Using our in-depth knowledge of interoperable standards such as HL7, DICOM, HIPAA, ICD, IHE, LOINC, SNOMED, NCPDP SCRIPT, etc., emids can help customers achieve these standards with perfection.

Some common trends observed relating to healthcare interoperability:

• Adoption to the rapid changing industry standards (HIPAA 4010-5010, ICD9 to ICD10, NCPDP SCRIPT v8.1 to v10.6) by various healthcare stakeholders, and their systems and applications
• Seamless information exchange between healthcare providers and payers to improve patient safety, decrease redundancy, and improve quality of care
• Comprehensive interoperability frameworks to enable successful information exchange between healthcare applications and healthcare organizations  
• Healthcare software products and applications with appropriate interoperability capabilities for information exchange
• Effective enablers and accelerators for quicker development of interoperability
• Security of Protected Health Information during information exchange

Services

emids, currently partners with payers, providers, health information networks, revenue cycle management companies, and third party administrators in helping them with:

• Data migration services for a "wellness management company" involving data mapping and ETL layer development 
• Development of interface enabling clients EHR to communicate with eRx network
• Development of interoperability capability in an HIE platform
• System modernization and migration services for a SaaS based EHR
• Integration of EHR to networks, Health Information Exchange, and clearinghouses 
• HL7 interface development for both inbound and outbound messages in an EMR
• Integrated clinical system implementation for long term care facilities

emids' services for building interoperability

emids' enablers and accelerators to facilitate faster delivery and improved quality in processes as well as IT systems.

Domain Area	Enabler/ Accelerator Type	Name
Certification & MU	NIST test script workflows	Clinical interoperability
HIPAA X12 EDI	Use case/test Scripts	Transaction test case
EHR Modernization	Electronic prescription integration template	Formulary and benefits downloading
	CPOE – Lab ordering and resulting use case	Update/cancel a lab order
ICD-10	Test script to test compliance	ICD-10 test script

 

Benefits

• Faster interoperability capability development enabled by accelerators and enablers
• Subject Matter Experts enabling quicker understanding of customized needs for interoperability in applications and products
• Expertise, in integration tools used in building interoperability in systems, enables high quality delivery
• Quicker time to market, providing a competitive edge

Case studies

• Built HIPAA 5010 capability into SaaS based EHR system for a renowned healthcare ISV
• Development of an interoperability engine for a top 3 KLAS EHR
• Development of surgical quality system for one of the leading healthcare data analytics company
• Integration between the EMR and client's 'Patient Check-in' solutions
• Migration of client data from legacy systems to new workflow-based disease management clinical platform
• End to end clinical application development, testing  and implementation for a top 3 long term care service provider
• Data migration for multiple clients to a single wellness management platform