Misys Tests 2 New IHE Profiles

At the IHE Connectathon, the healthcare industry's week long interoperability testing event, Misys Open Source Solutions (MOSS), a division of Misys plc, announced that it had succeeded in testing two critical Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles needed to run a health information exchange (HIE).

According to officials, this is the first time that all the software needed to exchange electronic files in a healthcare community will be made freely available in open source. The demonstration of the newly developed software comes after MOSS released a first IHE profile (PIX/PDQ under the OpenPIXPDQ Project) last February at the IHE Connectathon.

In this test, Connectathon examination monitors reviewed and passed two core MOSS server side components of the IHE IT infrastructure profiles: Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b) with the Cross Community Access (XCA) profile (OpenXDS project) and the Audit Trail and Node Authentication - ATNA (OpenATNA project). These components together with OpenPIXPDQ provide an exchange operator the ability to identify a patient and exchange the identified patient's clinical information, based on their consent, across disparate systems including hospitals, provider offices, labs, and diagnostic centers in a community. The implementation of the HIE may be performed in a federated (de-centralized) manner or centrally depending on the specific requirements of the community. Finally, any record that has been requested is then tracked for auditing purposes.

"Today is the realization of a complex two year development project. We took on the challenge to create a standards-based, fully open source interoperability platform. The MOSS led community of developers, which includes our partners from the University of Cardiff and the NextGate Solutions company, has met the challenge and delivered. The potential impact of this accomplishment is significant as providers can only meet the government's meaningful use requirements if it is able to electronically exchange patient information across the community with cross enterprise user assertion. The MOSS release will enable that exchange at a much lower price point" said Tim Elwell, VP of Misys Open Source Solutions. Elwell added, "Hartford Hospital helped us realize this accomplishment through their funding assistance and collaboration to build out these critical IHE profiles. The Hartford Community will be the first recipient of this technology as they go-live in February."

Steve O'Neill, CIO of Hartford Health Care Corp. said, "We learned about Misys Open Source Solutions (MOSS) at last year's IHE Connectathon. The MOSS philosophy clearly aligned with ours and after a competitive evaluation process, we chose MOSS to build our exchange. The use of open source technology provides our community with the ability to create an exchange at an affordable cost. We have collaborated closely with the MOSS team to develop an HIE that will be a model for Connecticut. The open source model also reduces our risk as we are less reliant on one vendor for support. I'd encourage other CIOs to investigate open source options."

Tim Elwell, VP of Misys Open Source Solutions added, "Our next big demonstration of the technology will be at the IHE Interoperability Showcase Booth #233 at the Healthcare Information Management Systems & Society's (HIMSS) 2010 Annual Conference and Exhibition, held on March 1-4 in Atlanta. We are looking forward to it."

Misys Open Source Solutions, a division of Misys plc, supports the Misys banking, treasury & capital markets and healthcare customers by developing open source projects to create new services and applications.

Misys provides integrated solutions that deliver results to organizations in the financial services and healthcare industries.

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