MEDecision Introduces InFrame Health Information Exchange Service and Extends Boundaries of Collaborative Healthcare Management

Technology Meets Healthcare’s Increasing Need for Interoperability by Enabling Stakeholders to Exchange Clinical Data and Medical Images

• Connects Care Delivery Organizations with One Another and Their Patients
• Enables Organizations to Cost-Effectively Extend Their Services, Market Reach and Brand
• Differentiated Solution around Medical Imaging, Interoperability and Flexibility

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative healthcare management solutions, today introduced the next generation of its healthcare management technology with the launch of InFrame^™, a collaborative health information exchange (HIE) service that enables care delivery organizations to share clinical data — including diagnostic-quality medical images — among themselves and with patients to more effectively drive business and comply with meaningful use criteria.

“It is an extensible, long-term solution that will enable provider organizations to not only comply with, but to capitalize on, the industry’s shift to increased interoperability and collaboration. InFrame takes the notion of improving patient care and streamlining operational efficiencies to an entirely new dimension.”

InFrame is designed around MEDecision’s patient-aware health management philosophy, which emphasizes providing stakeholders with mutual access to actionable, real-time information from throughout the healthcare ecosystem. InFrame enables care delivery organizations to leverage HIE to enhance revenues, extend brand and better manage operational costs by exchanging clinical data in real time with referring physicians and patients themselves. The solution’s name derives from its ability to gather information from diverse clinical sources into a frame of reference, in which providers and patients can more completely visualize medical history and results, and efficiently focus on actions that will enhance outcomes.

“For more than two decades, MEDecision has actively advocated interoperability as our best means for improving healthcare, and InFrame is the latest result of that belief,” said Scott A. Storrer, president and CEO at MEDecision. “This is a solution that eliminates the hurdles to health information exchange and enables partners to more seamlessly communicate and collaborate around shared patients. It is a very exciting foray into the provider space for us as we build on our foundational strengths and bring our collaborative healthcare management leadership to new and diverse arenas.”

InFrame distinguishes itself from an increasingly crowded field of HIE solutions by offering capabilities required to maximize and streamline referrals, support telehealth arrangements among partner facilities, and otherwise extend and expand an organization’s brand and geographic reach. The product features an unrivaled ability to exchange medical images; vendor-neutral plug-and-play integration with dozens of EMRs, PACS, PHRs, and other clinical applications; a highly flexible architecture; and a privacy and security model based on industry standards.

InFrame’s primary benefits for care delivery organizations include:

• Enabling the strengthening and scaling of business and brand by fostering referral network growth, enhancing patient satisfaction and extending care delivery service area;
• Decreasing operational costs by streamlining the intake of external information, including imaging, labs and other history, and simplifying the distribution of imaging and other results to referrers, patients and additional external parties; and
• Offering a smart investment for long-term dividends. InFrame’s Software as a Service (SaaS) model ensures against technological obsolescence while minimizing overall cost of ownership. Its fully interoperable framework supports seamless integration with multiple EHRs, PHRs, HIEs and even NHIN, which will enable compliance with meaningful use criteria for 2011 and beyond.

“InFrame is the most comprehensive and flexible health information exchange platform currently available,” said Elliot Menschik, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president of provider markets at MEDecision. “It is an extensible, long-term solution that will enable provider organizations to not only comply with, but to capitalize on, the industry’s shift to increased interoperability and collaboration. InFrame takes the notion of improving patient care and streamlining operational efficiencies to an entirely new dimension.”

The release of InFrame is one result of MEDecision’s acquisition last year of HxTechnologies (HxTI), a health information exchange company specializing in the seamless and secure flow of clinical data among health care stakeholders. HxTI’s technology has also been integrated into MEDecision’s other products, Alineo^® and Nexalign^®.

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About MEDecision

MEDecision offers collaborative healthcare management solutions that provide a simple and smart way for payers and providers to harness the power of knowledge to enable the best clinical decisions and improve health outcomes. Designed around a patient-aware health management philosophy, MEDecision’s solutions include Alineo^®, a collaborative healthcare management platform for delivering outcome-driven case, disease and utilization management, Nexalign^®, a collaborative healthcare decision support service that fosters better payer-patient-physician interactions and InFrame™, a collaborative health information exchange service that connects care delivery organizations with one another and their patients. For more information, visit www.MEDecision.com.

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