The ability to access and share patient health information securely from any location, and in real-time, is vital to coordinating care amongst health care providers and improving the overall quality, safety, and effectiveness of patient-centered care.
NexJ Health Exchange solves this problem by supporting interoperability according to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise’s (IHE) common interoperability framework. Our library of IHE profile adapters provides organizations with the fastest, most flexible, and most cost-effective solution for achieving interoperability between proprietary and standards-based health information systems.
At the 2012 Connectathon for IHE Profiles North American Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Connectathon, NexJ Health Exchange continued to expand its library of IHE profile adapters, proving its ability to interoperate between 40 vendors, completing 116 integration tests across 10 categories.
For more information please refer to our Faster, Flexible Interoperability with IHE Profile Adapters Brochure.
NexJ IHE Profile Results
View the NexJ IHE interoperability result details at: http://connectathon-results.ihe.net/
Eric Gombrich, Senior Vice President and General Manager of NexJ Health solutions says “IHE profiles provide the standards-based interoperability that organizations need to integrate their disparate clinical and electronic medical record systems and achieve a comprehensive view of the patient across the continuum of care. NexJ is dedicated to helping organizations achieve a patient-centered view of health information at the point of care so they can improve healthcare delivery and meet accountable care objectives.”
NexJ Health Exchange provides pre-built adapters for the following IHE profiles:
- Audit Trail and Node Authentication (ATNA) – NexJ Health Exchange meets IHE standards for providing patient information confidentiality, data integrity and user accountability. NexJ Health Exchange delivers this security through functional access controls, defined security audit logging and secure network communications. Security of patient information is of primary importance and NexJ is at the forefront with respect to ensuring confidentiality.
- Patient Identifier Cross-Referencing (PIX) – NexJ Health Exchange is able to recognize information related to a given individual, despite having been labeled distinctively with bar code or other naming conventions in different areas of the healthcare system, and assosciate the information to the person. The ability to locate and access patient health information complete historical health record by individual is a critical element for people-centered health.
- Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) – NexJ Health Exchange can search for patient visit and demographic knowledge such as name, age or gender, from within the patient registry central to a number of remote healthcare facilities and return complete and accurate results. The ability to enable patient-centered queries across the continuum of care is an essential component of NexJ Health Exchange.
- Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) – NexJ Health Exchange can share electronic health record documents between healthcare enterprises, ranging from physician offices to clinics to acute care in-patient facilities. The technology developed for this can further be applied to facilitate collaboration between healthcare providers, their patients, and trusted health allies, including health coaches, family members, and community members to encourage positive behavior change and improve wellness.
- Cross-Community Access (XCA) – NexJ Health Exchange supports the means to query and retrieve patient relevant medical data held by other communities that use a common set of policies for the purpose of sharing clinical information
- Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) – NexJ Health Exchange supports the means to locate and respond to communities which hold patient relevant health data and the translation of patient identifiers across communities holding the same patient’s data.
- Consistent Time (CT) – With NexJ Health Exchange, system clocks and time stamps of computers in a network can be synchronized (with a median error of less than 1 second). This synchronization facilitates the auditing and tracking of information providing organizations with secure audit trails.