Orion Health advances Saskatchewan's EHR to improve access to lab results]
Orion Health advances Saskatchewan's EHR to improve access to lab results
eHealth Saskatchewan using clinical portal as part of Lab Results Repository
TORONTO, ON –– August 15, 2012 –– Orion Health, a leader in
electronic health records (EHR) and healthcare integration solutions has
implemented its Orion Health Clinical Portal to eHealth in the province of
Saskatchewan. The portal is enabling healthcare providers to access
patient laboratory results with greater speed and accuracy anywhere in the
province. The solution supports the Saskatchewan Lab Results Repository
that aims to place lab results in the hands of healthcare providers
faster, thereby improving the care experience for the province’s more
than one million citizens.
"We are excited to support Saskatchewan's efforts in becoming a fully
functioning electronic health records environment," says Mike Craig, Vice
President, Orion Health. "Our Clinical Portal is a proven solution that
presents patient data in a quick and accessible way across the entire
continuum of care. The solution will help increase diagnostic accuracy and
improve patient safety by providing physicians and clinicians with patient
information and results right at the point of care."
With The Orion Health Clinical Provider Portal, healthcare providers in
Saskatchewan now have the ability to search and view the following:
* Patient Clinical Information: Access to view a patient's related
clinical information for patient demographics, and laboratory results for
general laboratory, microbiology, pathology, and transfusion medicine in a
person context view; Access to view PDF laboratory reports;
* Lab Results: Access to view cumulative and graph numerical lab results
via the Results Viewer, which provides the viewing functionality for
Laboratory Results;
* Clinical Access: Set up of roles and groups to manage viewing of data by
users and apply relevant person access restrictions; Provide a consent
override screen, as well as a printable patient consent form
* Authentication: Integration to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP) and OpenSSO to create a single sign on environments and limit EHR
data access and ensure the protection of health information
* Integration of the Portal to the EHR Index
"eHealth Saskatchewan were looking for an eHealth solution that could
aggregate patient data from existing systems into a central portal,"
explains Mike Craig. "Orion Health's Clinical Portal layers on top of
existing data structures, eliminating the need to rip-and-replace
electronic health infrastructure. It also equips them with the flexibility
and control to expand functionality for their changing environment."
Orion Health's Clinical Portal will integrate with three repositories
across Saskatchewan: labs, drug, and diagnostic imaging. More
specifically, the portal currently integrates with the following eHealth
applications:
* Health Information Access Layer (HIAL): The HIAL will be the integration
engine between eHealth data repositories and the Orion Health Portal.
* Shared Client Index (SCI): The SCI product will be used as the client
registry that will store the patient demographics data.
* Saskatchewan Laboratory Results Repository (SLRR): SLRR is eHealth
Saskatchewan's Clinical Data Repository for Lab Results.
* Consent Services: The eHealth Saskatchewan Consent Service module will
store the consent directives.
Future releases will integrate drug and diagnostic imaging.
About Orion Health
Orion Health is a global, independently-owned eHealth software company and
one the world’s leading provider of electronic health records (EHRs) and
healthcare integration solutions. Worldwide, Orion Health solutions are
used in 30 countries by more than 300,000 clinicians. In Canada, thousands
of clinicians and hundreds of provider facilities and OEM partners rely on
Orion Health to facilitate data exchange between hospitals, health systems
and EHRs, resulting in improved care coordination, increased cost savings
and efficiencies, and enhanced quality of care. Orion Health is a
preferred Canada Health Infoway Solution. More information can be found
at <http://www.orionhealth.com/> http://www.orionhealth.com
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