QUEBEC--(Marketwire - June 1, 2009) - e-Health Conference -- (
NASDAQ:
CSCO) In addressing
the evolution of healthcare delivery, one of the principal challenges is
the seamless exchange of medical data across multiple health
organizations. Healthcare enterprises and regional authorities are growing
quickly and looking to improve their productivity and the quality of
patient care. They also face tremendous challenges in connecting their IT
and legacy clinical systems in order to share disparate medical data across
health organizations
"Healthcare information will be the cornerstone to our moving forward with
longitudinal health records, and this solution provides a solid platform to
move the information in a safe and highly secure manner," said Mark Farrow,
chief information officer and assistant vice president, Information and
Communication Technologies, Hamilton Health Sciences Centre.
To help address current challenges, Cisco and Tiani Spirit integrated
Cisco's Application Extension Platform (AXP) and Cisco's Integrated
Services Routers (ISRs) with Tiani Spirit's IHE platform to enable a more
simplified and more secure exchange of medical information across a range
of healthcare disciplines. Karos Health and Cisco are jointly introducing
the Cisco® Medical Data Exchange Solution (MDES) into the North American
market to provide healthcare professionals from multiple institutions with
access to patient data from previously disconnected information systems
using incompatible formats and disparate medical terminology.
The Cisco MDES provides the collaborative tools necessary to improve
cross-facility communication and patient care. MDES utilizes the
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE®) technical frameworks to
establish a standards-based approach to interoperability and data exchange.
MDES addresses two key challenges: formulating a common patient reference,
and being able to share and access patient records across disparate
systems. In addition, the solution conforms to the IHE security framework
to support authorized access and to deny unauthorized access to records.
The MDES's interoperability capabilities also reduce costs by eliminating
costly manual transport and proprietary data exchanges and interfaces.
As a member of Cisco's AXP Developer Partner and Cisco Technology Developer
Programs, Karos Health works with Cisco to customize and deploy the MDES
solution. With the MDES platform, the complexity of medical data
integration is greatly simplified, providing a high level of security and
simplifying deployment for healthcare entities with multiple hospitals,
distributed clinics and labs, and remote practices.
"With the Cisco MDES, clinical information exchanges can be gradually
deployed. For example, the process can start with two hospitals, then
encompass their referral base and ancillary services, then expand to a
whole regional health authority and, potentially, to a national grid of
connected health providers and patients," said Rick Stroobosscher,
president of Karos Health. "Clinical information exchange grids are the
stepping stone to
electronic health records (EHRs), providing their users with all
information generated along multi-provider patient care pathways."
"The Cisco network architecture makes MDES a hardened resilient platform,
which can be deployed as a set of appliances and centrally configured and
monitored," said Brantz Myers, director, Healthcare Business Development
for Cisco Canada. "With MDES, the network becomes the healthcare platform
for collaborating, decreasing costs and risks, and simplifying IT
management."
Cisco MDES will be presented at the e-Health conference in Quebec City in
the Cisco booths (227 and 328). MDES will also be at the core of the
e-Health Interoperability Showcase, a multivendor demonstration where
disparate clinical systems will exchange health information according to a
set of typical clinical scenarios while adhering to industry standards.
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About Karos Health
Karos Health develops solutions that improve patient care. Karos' software
solutions support the exchange of health information across enterprises and
communities, fostering collaboration between healthcare vendors, providers,
and patients. With more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare
integration field, the Karos team advocates for the patient, leveraging
existing systems and cultivating relationships with healthcare vendors to
ensure the digital exchange of clinical information. For more information
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Contact Information: Contact Information:
Karin Scott
Cisco Canada
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+1 416 306 7164
Patricia Beretta
Karos Health
patricia.beretta@karoshealth.com
+1 519 342 7384