MEDecision's Interoperability Capabilities Shine Again at 12th Annual IHE Connectathon

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Philadelphia, PA-NJ (1888PressRelease) January 25, 2011 - MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health management solutions, has once again successfully completed its latest round of interoperability tests with other healthcare information technology (HIT) vendors at the 12th annual Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North America Connectathon in Chicago.

The HIT industry has established IHE as its premier effort to ensure seamless data interchange between medical information systems. IHE's annual Connectathons in Asia, Europe and North America give participants a unique opportunity to test connectivity-removing proprietary, costly and time-consuming barriers to integration. The Connectathons are HIT's only large-scale interoperability testing events and help to promote standards compliance, electronic health record system connectivity and the interoperable exchange of patient health information.

Testing at Connectathon this year involved the latest extensions developed by the industry to enable more effective sharing of clinical data, a critical component of health information exchanges, and emerging accountable care organizations (ACOs) and patient-centered medical homes (PCMH).

This year, MEDecision added new integration profiles and tested compliance with newly-updated profiles across the company's Nexalign® and InFrame™ solutions, including mobile application platforms.

MEDecision has successfully participated in numerous prior Connectathons, developing and commercializing the industry's most comprehensive set of IHE-compliant health information exchange components that currently support:

• Patient identity cross referencing (PIX v2/v3)
• Patient demographics query (PDQ v2/v3)
• Multi-patient query (MPQ)
• Cross-community patient discovery (XCPD)
• Cross-enterprise document sharing (XDS, XDS-I, XDS-MS, XDS-LAB, XDS-SD)
• Cross-community Access (XCA)
• Cross-enterprise user assertion (XUA)
• Document subscriptions (DSUB)
• Shared Value Sets (SVS)
• Audit Trails and Node Authentication (ATNA)
• Basic Privacy and Patient Consent (BPPC)

These capabilities give MEDecision customers the ability to seamlessly connect multiple EHRs and clinical applications from the industry's leading vendors to share information and coordinate care-from acute care to ambulatory environments and among any number of payers, providers and patients.

"MEDecision has been a longstanding advocate of information sharing and interoperability," said Carole Hodsdon, the company's executive vice president and chief technology officer. "These capabilities are all the more in demand as our customers embrace new models for care delivery and reimbursement such as ACOs and medical homes, not to mention participation in regional health information exchanges. We're delighted to see the continued adoption of these standards by our colleagues in the vendor community and are confident that our customers will benefit significantly from these advances."

Each year the North American Connectathon features upwards of 150 systems from over 100 participating organizations. More than 3,500 successful tests of IHE Integration Profiles were performed and verified at last year's event.

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About MEDecision

MEDecision offers collaborative health management solutions that provide a way for payers and providers to harness the power of knowledge to enable the best clinical decisions, engage patients and improve health outcomes. Designed around a patient-aware health management philosophy, MEDecision's solutions include Alineo®, a health management platform for delivering outcome-driven case, disease, utilization and behavioral health management; InFrame™, a set of tools that facilitate the health and performance management processes for physicians and accountable care organizations; and Nexalign®, MEDecision's health decision support service that applies analytics to information gathered from multiple sources to foster better business and clinical decisions on a patient's behalf. For more information, visit www.MEDecision.com.

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