MENLO PARK, Calif. and CORTLAND, N.Y., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- MITEM Corporation, a provider of integration software solutions and clinical applications for health care today announced that Cortland Memorial Hospital has gone live with Blue Iris Connect. Blue Iris Connect is a messaging interface that automates the account creation, lab ordering and result posting process for one of Cortland's physician offices. In this deployment Blue Iris Connect provides bi-directional integration between MEDITECH MAGIC and a MEDENT Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system.
Tom Hallisey, CIO at Cortland said, "Having this two-way interface successfully deployed is a huge competitive advantage for us. It has enabled us to win the lab business from one of the larger physician practices in town. Prior to implementing Blue Iris Connect, we weren't getting any of their business."
The implementation at Cortland began by collecting all the Lab, Microbiology, and Blood Bank Dictionaries from its MEDITECH MAGIC system and from the MEDENT EMR at the physician office, and then mapping them. This process makes sure all discreet data elements are recognized in both systems. Hallisey stated, "This process could have been extremely arduous, but it wasn't, due to MITEM's and MEDENT's experience at this. Both companies were committed to making this project a success."
Once the lab dictionary mapping was completed, testing began starting with the link from the Blue Iris Connect server to MEDITECH and then from the server to MEDENT. "We checked admissions, making sure the fields were going in correctly, and then made sure results were going back out. Then we finally tried getting files from MEDENT, sending them to the Blue Iris Connect Server and then straight through to MEDITECH," added Hallisey.
The final stage involved setting up a notification process to handle exceptions and reporting. Hallisey commented, "Staff in both the Lab Department and in Information Services run daily reports to monitor what's happening with the interface. These reports tell us things like what new patients have been created vs. patients that have merged into an existing record. These are quality control checks that are normally performed on the admitting staff, but in this case it's an automated admitting staff."
Cortland expects to add an orthopedic office this year that uses MEDENT and is talking with at least three or four other physician offices that have expressed interest in connecting their EMR systems. Hallisey said, "In addition, we have had theoretical discussions with MITEM and MEDENT about integrating radiology reports, and possibly all dictated reports from our physician offices. We expect radiology will likely be an even bigger revenue opportunity for us than labs."
About Cortland Memorial Hospital
Cortland Memorial Hospital is a community hospital dedicated to quality patient care and comfort. What began as a small "cottage" hospital -- serving 15 patients in 1891 -- is today a 181-bed acute care facility with an attached 80-bed residential care facility. Cortland Memorial Hospital offers a full range of general and specialty care, inpatient and outpatient services, off-campus facilities and community health education programs.
About MITEM(R) Corporation
Founded in 1985 by Aurel Kleinerman, MD, Ph.D., MITEM develops software applications that integrate differently designed systems to share critical data and automate business processes. Blue Iris software solutions developed by MITEM are designed to profoundly increase clinical productivity by enhancing, extending and integrating hospital information systems (HIS). MITEM software has been deployed in diverse markets including health care, government, public utilities, financial services and manufacturing.
MITEM CorporationCONTACT: Jon Wollenhaupt, Director, Marketing Communications of MITEMCorporation, +1-650-614-3428, or jonw@mitem.com
