Orion Health and CliniSys Create Partnership for More Effective Pathology IT

Pathology laboratories across Europe are set to have access to faster and more cost effective IT, thanks to a new partnership between Orion Health Ltd and CliniSys.

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Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine will be embedded in CliniSys’ systems to create faster and easier connections between its pathology solutions and 3rd party health information systems. The use of Rhapsody will allow CliniSys customers to accelerate project lead-times for integration with external systems and lower overall operating costs.

CliniSys recognises the growing requirements for integration and interoperability and how integration to order communication and results reporting systems particularly are now seen as mission critical services.

This new partnership offers customers the breadth of experience of CliniSys in pathology laboratory IT, alongside flexible IT integration provided by Orion Health, a specialist with 15 years expertise in building integration platforms for healthcare settings worldwide.

Rhapsodyis a powerful integration engine that delivers advanced inter-system messaging and enables quick, accurate and efficient exchange of electronic data to populate electronic health records. The Rhapsody Engine manages and streamlines message exchange between healthcare applications, databases and external systems.

CliniSys is Europe’s largest dedicated pathology solutions provider with a suite of laboratory solutions all of which are supportive of interoperable IT connectivity essential for the drive for greater efficiency highlighted in Lord Carter’s report and the QIPP agenda.

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Orion Health Ltd and CliniSys are partnering to deliver faster and more cost effective IT for pathology laboratories across Europe
Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine will be embedded in CliniSys’ systems
The new system is designed to create faster and easier connections between ClinySis' pathology solutions and 3rd party health information systems

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“Europe’s healthcare economies increasingly rely on interoperable information, at all levels of health delivery. The partnership between Orion Health Rhapsody and an industry leader like CliniSys will reduce costs for pathology providers by lowering the overheads associated with creating and maintaining interfaces. At a time when operating budgets are tight, the cost-saving element of this partnership will prove immensely valuable.”

Charles Scatchard, President of International at Orion Health Ltd

“Diagnostics data forms 70% of a patient’s electronic record and therefore it is essential that a laboratory information system can seamlessly integrate with other clinical systems. As care pathways develop, this integration requirement becomes more complex requiring a greater level of process interoperability. Our partnership with Orion Health will enable us to deliver more sophisticated levels of interoperability to our customers and provide them with increased levels of independence to adapt their interfaces to the changing clinical processes.”

Fiona Pearson, CEO of CliniSys

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Orion Health’s easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision-making by providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By enhancing existing healthcare information systems, the Orion Health Rhapsody^™ Integration Engine, Clinical^™ Portal and workflow solutions, provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer.

Worldwide, Orion Health implements health information communities involving over 30 million patients with hundreds of thousands of active users including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Spain’s IB Salut, South-Eastern Norwegian Regional Health Authority, New Zealand Ministry of Health, Maine’s HealthInfoNet, Lahey Clinic, UCLA Medical Center, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Alberta Health Services. Orion Health’s partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, Allscripts, IBM, Oracle, Philips and others.

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29th March 2011