BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Physician members of the Yakima Valley based Signal Health integrated network chose HealthUnity’s complete solution for health information exchange (HIE), analytics and personal health records when presented with a two-vendor “bake-off.”
Signal Health is a private, financially sustainable community-wide network of healthcare providers aligned with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. The network’s selection process narrowed choices for the HIE solution from ten vendors to two, and then gave member providers the chance to vote on their preferred system.
“Hands down, they preferred the HealthUnity solution because of its ease of use and unique Composite C-CDA ™ engine (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture),” said Michael Vachon, Data and Informatics Manager for Signal Health. “Clinicians could quickly see multiple documents without time-consuming searches.”
Signal Health President and CEO Rich Spiegel, M.D. said the network’s clinician members are enthusiastic about having access to pertinent patient information. “When I practiced medicine for more than 30 years, I always knew that I didn’t have the complete picture of the patient’s previous care,” Dr. Spiegel said. “The HIE will give providers more complete clinical information so they can take better care of their patients when they need it most, which is when they are sitting right in front of you.”
“For HealthUnity, it is gratifying to have such a strong clinician validation of our patient-centered solution,” said HealthUnity President and CEO Prem Urali.
HealthUnity’s Composite C-CDA™ service takes all of the clinical data for a patient across the continuum of care and combines them to create a single normalized, de-duplicated standard C-CDA document. It can then be sorted, filtered and presented with appropriate patient consent. The solution will be delivered using the HealthUnity Healthpod™ environment, which is a virtualized, high-availability private cloud hosting solution.
About HealthUnity
HealthUnity is a leading healthcare solutions company dedicated to secure, privacy-protected health information exchange and analysis among providers, patients and public health. We provide state-of-the-art, comprehensive solutions to the latest needs of healthcare customers including care management, coordination and patient engagement. HealthUnity products have supported the implementation of more than 15 advanced HIEs. Its totally integrated solution includes hardware, software, services, hosting and support that enable cookbook implementations at a low total cost of ownership. For details please visit HealthUnity.com.
