NEW YORK & SEVILLE, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Healthcare Innovative Solutions, a full-service clinical consulting firm, today announced a partnership with Misys Open Source Solutions (MOSS), a division of Misys plc, to provide the healthcare community with the consultancy services and open source technology necessary to build Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) -- technological infrastructures that enable the exchange of health information across disparate systems.

“HIEs are important because they provide the healthcare community with immediate access to patient data coming from many different sources—like labs, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, radiology centers, and payers—giving healthcare providers the essential information to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare in America today,” said Tim Elwell, Vice President of Misys Open Source Solutions–Healthcare.

“A close examination of the ARRA funding and resulting healthcare provider incentive payments also places the need to exchange patient information between individual providers and institutions at a critical level. Health Information Exchanges will help communities demonstrate the forthcoming ‘meaningful use’ requirements,” Elwell continued.

HIEs are an essential component in President Obama’s plan to provide access to an electronic health record (EHR) for all US citizens by 2014. Without a way to transfer records electronically, the efficiencies, cost savings, and improved patient care will never be realized. HIEs make the transfer of the electronic records possible.

“We’ve been working with hospitals eager to deploy a Health Information Exchange,” said Daniela Mahoney, RN, President and CEO of Healthcare Innovative Solutions, who decided that a partnership with MOSS was an excellent business decision after learning how effective the technology is in helping to solve interoperability problems. Mahoney was also impressed by the demonstrated progress MOSS has achieved in building an HIE at Hartford HealthCare.

“Misys’ open source technology, combined with our strategic planning and technical implementation expertise, will take Health Information Exchange to a new level by providing lower cost and more efficient implementations,” Mahoney concluded.

She was also pleased that MOSS uses the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) standards-based profiles approach to developing HIEs, mandated by the Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

“Collaboration is the key to success in improving healthcare delivery and should be very much a part of the way we develop software. IHE profiles built using open source development is one of the keys that will unlock the problem of interoperability, while substantially reducing the cost of software for the healthcare community. We invite the healthcare software community to join in on the effort,” concluded Elwell.

About Misys Open Source Solutions

Misys Open Source Solutions, LLC, a division of Misys plc, supports the Misys banking, treasury & capital markets and healthcare customers by leading the development of open source projects to create new services and applications to address these industry’s most difficult problems. Misys Open Source Solutions, based in New York City, is currently leading projects to dramatically reduce atmospheric pollution and improve healthcare delivery.

Misys Open Source Solutions: Code for Healthcare Innovation

www.misys.com/corp/opensource

About Misys plc

Misys plc (FTSE: MSY-L), provides integrated, comprehensive solutions that deliver significant results to organisations in the financial services and healthcare industries. We maximise value for our customers by combining our deep knowledge of their business with our commitment to their success.

In banking and treasury & capital markets, Misys is a market leader, with over 1,200 customers, including all of the world’s top 50 banks. In healthcare, Misys plc owns a controlling stake in NASDAQ listed Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc, a clear leader in the provision of healthcare information technology, serving more than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and nearly 7,000 post-acute and homecare organisations. Misys employs 6,000 people who serve customers in more than 120 countries.

We aspire to be the world’s best application software and services company, delivering results for the most important industries in the world.

Misys: Experience, Solutions, Results

www.misys.com

About Healthcare Innovative Solutions

Headquartered in Seville, Ohio, Healthcare Innovative Solutions, Inc. (HIS) is a consulting firm serving the information technology needs of the healthcare industry, providing comprehensive clinical systems consulting services—from strategic planning and technical implementation to process optimization and redesign. Its expertise in Computerized Physician Order Entry positions it as a trusted expert for delivering and implementing customized acute care services for EHR implementation.

HIS also conducts the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Sarbanes Oxley Security Assessments as well as American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Strategic Planning and road mapping. Further, HIS can assist in building a Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) to connect acute and ambulatory businesses as well as community and statewide exchanges.

To bridge the continuity of patient care and meet the dynamic demands of our healthcare industry, HIS extended its expertise into the ambulatory arena, providing physicians with integrated electronic medical records (EMR) applications, communication systems, hardware, and IT infrastructure solutions. The state-of-the- art technology solution HIS offers physicians will transform today’s ordinary practice into an extraordinary digital physician’s office of the future.

Healthcare Innovative Solutions: Improving workflow and patient outcomes through customized EHR consulting.

www.customizedehr.com

MEDIA INQUIRIES
Misys Open Source Solutions
Carla DeRasmo, 212-898-9410
M: 646-639-5451
Carla.derasmo@misys.com
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Healthcare Innovative Solutions
Mike Bull, 800-236-0141 ext. 208
M: 513-652-3017
mikebull@hisorg.com