SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orion Health, the leader in eHealth technology, today announced that Memorial Sloan-Kettering has chosen Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to replace its current healthcare integration engine and enable seamless communication and data sharing between health IT applications in use at the hospital.
Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine is a healthcare specific integration engine that provides comprehensive support for a vast range of communication protocols and message formats, ensuring connectivity between all systems within and between organizations. Rhapsody also provides administrators with improved personal notification options, scheduling tools to ensure important updates are received by the appropriate person and real-time activity streams.
“A reliable integration engine is a critical component for the IT strategies that drive quality-of-care improvements within the hospital setting,” said Paul Viskovich, president, Orion Health North America. “Orion Health is proud to have been selected by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer as the organization’s integration engine of choice and to working with them to better serve their patients and streamline communications between their clinical IT systems.”
More information can be found on the Orion Health website: http://www.orionhealth.com/solutions/packages/rhapsody.
About Orion Health Inc.
Founded in 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand, Orion Health is the only global, independently owned eHealth technology company. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health has become the world’s leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions. Orion Health has extensive experience in the design and installation of complex systems within demanding healthcare environments. Today, Orion Health products and solutions are implemented in more than 30 countries, used by hundreds of thousands of clinicians, and help facilitate care for tens of millions of patients. Clinicians, provider facilities and OEM partners rely on Orion Health to facilitate data exchange between hospitals, health systems, HIEs, and affiliated providers and medical devices, resulting in improved care coordination, increased cost savings and efficiencies, and enhanced quality of care.
In the U.S., Orion Health™ HIE provides the technology backbone for state and regional HIEs across the country. Orion Health Rhapsody® Integration Engine is used by nearly all state and local health departments for public health reporting. Customers include Catholic Health Initiatives, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Beacon Community of the Inland Northwest, Geisinger Health System, Inland Empire HIE, Kaiser Permanente, Lahey Clinic, Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Maine HealthInfoNet, Massachusetts Health Information Highway, New Hampshire Health Information Organization and St. Vincent’s HealthCare. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com. Connect with us on Twitter, facebook and LinkedIn.