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January 2008 |
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MDI Solutions Limited today announced that MultiMedia Dental Systems of Roswell, Georgia has selected its MD Link Integration Engine software to support its dental software (Mediadent) implementations. MD Link will be used to provide the necessary interoperability between Dental Offices and Healthcare facilities and beyond.
A leading application platform provider in healthcare, MDI Solutions develops the MD Link integration engine, which includes a Meditech? integration toolset. Mediadent Digital Imaging is the most widely used digital X-ray software world wide and is in use in 26 countries.
MDI Solutions and MultiMedia Dental Systems successfully collaborated on a joint integration project, which introduced MultiMedia to MDI and their MD Link software. MultiMedia quicky recognized the capability of MD Link to accelerate the time to develop interfaces with other vendor software and the extended connectivity that could be provided over traditional integration methods.
MultiMedia Dental Systems, Inc. was formed in June of 1999 for the express purpose of developing the next generation of dental software. Mediadent Digital Imaging was released in November of 2000 and it is now the most widely used digital X-ray software world wide. You can review more information about MultiMedia Dental Systems at www.mediadentusa.com.
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October 2007 |
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MDI Solutions Limited today announced that Net Health Systems of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania has selected its MD Link Integration Engine software to support its wound management software (Wound Expert) implementations. MD Link will replace the integration software previously used by Net Health Systems and will also be the foundation of future integration projects.
A leading application platform provider in healthcare, MDI Solutions develops the MD Link integration engine, which includes a Meditech? integration toolset. Net Health Systems is a rapidly growing healthcare software vendor who saw their software utilized in one million wound assessments in 2007.
Net Health Systems completed an extensive review of the integration vendor marketplace and selected MDI Solutions to replace existing software and respond to their expanding interfacing needs. Requirements for rapid integration, sophisticated,end-to-end management capabilities, and database integration drove the move to MD Link.
Net Health is the leading provider of clinical information systems in the rapidly growing field of chronic wound care. WoundExpert, their flagship offering, provides integrated clinical, financial, and regulatory software and business intelligence services for wound management. WoundExpert allows clinicians, physicians, and healthcare managers to improve patient care through better tracking and benchmarking while enhancing workflow procedures and business decision-making across the chronic wound care continuum. You can learn more about Net Health at www.woundexpert.com.
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September 2007 |
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Sequoia Community Health
Centers, Fresno, California, has selected MDI Solutions? MD
Link? software as their data integration solution,
following a multi-vendor procurement process.
MD Link will be
implemented at the Health Centers to connect a
variety of essential software systems. The
key driver for Sequoia was to find a vendor with
experience integrating NextGen?s? EMR software,
which they had recently acquired. MDI
resources will initially develop bi-directional
interfaces for ADT, Scheduling and Billing between
NextGen and MediDent?s? dental software.
It is antiscipated that MD
Link will become a key component of the clinical
and financial data management at the Health
Centres. The extensive ?plug-ins? included with MD
Link, such as the pre-built HL7 (Health Level 7)
schemas and delimited text file connection feature, will allow Sequoia? staff
to readily integrate the ?best-of-breed? applications installed
at the Clinic and more.
Sequoia was incorporated
in 1978 as a nonprofit outreach organization in
south Fresno. They began providing patient care
services two years later at its current Orange and
Butler site. In 2001, with an additional two
sites, Sequoia served 20,760 patients for a total
of 70,752 patient visits. Just four years later,
after adding an additional four sites, Sequoia
served 31,926 patients for a total of 119,680
patient visits?a patient increase of 65%.
You can learn more about Sequoia at www.sequoiacommunity.org.
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July 2007 |
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MDI
Solutions has extended its agreement
with Medirex Systems to provide custom
.NET? software development, and will working
on a joint development project.
MDI?s management and
development team will be working with Medirex
Systems to co-develop a Workflow improvement
platform that will dramatically improve data
processing and data flow within healthcare. MDI
plans to combine its systems and data
integration knowledge with Medirex?s process improvement expertise
to develop the platform. The
key outcome of this endeavor will see
duplicate data entry eliminated and
patient flow will dramatically improve throughout
healthcare organizations. The planned launch for
this project is mid 2008.
Medirex Systems Inc. is a
Communications Improvement Company that delivers
information solutions by integrating people,
processes, and technology. Their software
solutions and consulting services assist clients
to increase operational efficiency by reducing
errors, streamlining business processes and
achieving closer integration with clients,
suppliers, employees and applications. More
information about Medirex can be found at www.medirexsys.com.
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June 2007 |
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Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Honolulu,
Hawaii, www.hhsc.org, renewed
their interface support service agreement with MDI
Solutions. MDI provides Hawaii Health with 24x7
First-Level Interfacing Support Services. MDI
proactively monitors all of HHSC?s financial and
clinical interfaces through remote monitoring
tools. In addition, Hawaii Health renewed
their interface development retainer agreement as
part of the contract renewal.
MDI Solutions will
continue to serve HHSC as their preferred
interfacing outsourced services vendor. Hawaii
Health Systems Corporation is a multi-site
hospital system, which provides a full range of
health care services.
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May 2007 |
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 | MDI Solutions and iSOFT
launch partnership
at CAEP 2007
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MDI Solutions has signed a collaboration agreement with iSOFT for the marketing of their healthcare IT solutions in Canada. As a first step, MDI will market and distribute iSOFT's Emergency Department software suite:
ePOD - 5 Level Assessment-Based Triage
EDIS - 5 Level Triage and Patient/Bed Tracking
iChartPro - Evidence Based Clinical Documentation and Orders
MDI Solutions is excited to offer this Emergency Department software suite to healthcare. The software helps users improve ED productivity and provide safer patient care by:
- Providing assessment-based (CTAS) Triage
- Producing complaint-specific charts
- Utilizing a complaint driven evidence-based workflow tool
- Reducing Charting Time and presenting a codified patient record
iSOFT's Emergency Department software is installed in over 25 ED's across Canada, making it the most widely installed of any ED vendor. Terry Durette, President MDI Solutions, offered: "iSoft has a very solid base with its installations in Canadian Emergency Departments and the latest release of their iCHART Pro clinical documentation module is in a class of its own. When combined with MDI Solutions systems integration expertise, this new partnership is expected to offer Canadian Hospitals an overall solution that will respond to improving patient care in the ED while promoting a true EHR."
The new MDI/iSOFT team will join up at CAEP to present iSoft's patient centric ED software.
CAEP 2007 is being held from June 2 to 7, 2007 at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, BC
For further information, please contact:
Terry Durette
MDI Solutions
Tel: (416) 255-5113 x269
Fax: (416) 255-8058
Email: tdurette@mdisolutions.com
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March 2007 |
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A long time MDI Solutions client, Guelph General Hospital, has extended its license agreement for MDI's integration engine MD Link? by contracting for an unlimited use license.
Guelph General is currently using MD Link as its integration software source
to facilitate communication and information sharing between the Meditech?
Hospital Information System (HIS), the GRASP? Nursing Workload Measurement system, the MED2020? Health Records Abstracting module and the Wait Time Information System (WTIS). Guelph has a number of projects planned where MD Link will be used to link and monitor critical systems.
Guelph General Hospital is a dynamic, comprehensive acute care facility providing a full range of services to the residents of Guelph and Wellington County, Ontario. Services include 24-hour emergency coverage, advanced technology and diagnostic support, and specialty programs such as surgery, orthopaedics, cardiac care, obstetrics, gynaecology and paediatrics. GGH serves a population of 180,000 people and you can learn more about GGH at http://www.gghorg.ca.
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February 2007 |
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MDI Solutions has entered into an agreement with Medirex Systems to provide custom .NET? software development.
MDI's .NET development team will work with Medirex Systems to complete development on a number of applications that will improve data processing and patient flow in the healthcare market. MDI will be involved in all aspects of the software development including initial design and scope, programming, QA and support.
Medirex Systems Inc. is a Communications Improvement Company that delivers information solutions by integrating people, processes, and technology. Their software solutions and consulting services assist clients to increase operational efficiency by reducing errors, streamlining business processes and achieving closer integration with clients, suppliers, employees and applications. More information about Medirex can be found at www.medirexsys.com.
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January 2007 |
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MDI Solutions has reached a significant processing milestone with their MD Link? integration engine software.
MD Link was used to enable a major US based pharmacy retailer to implement a new enterprise single pharmacy system, which integrates patient, prescriber and script data spread across more than 2000 legacy store databases into a single enterprise level system.
The initial project requirement saw in excess of 3,000,000 records processed by MD Link in a single processing 'run'. MD Link's Query/Response feature was used to assist with searching, validating and retrieving patient data from the legacy databases, and consolidate it into the single enterprise system.
The ongoing project requirement has MD Link using its Query/Response functionality to process 600,000 records daily in a four hour window. MDI's Director of Implementation Services, Timothy Tang, managed the project from its inception and credited their chief developer, Dan Tripp, with developing a complex solution that met or exceeded all project requirements.
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December 2006 |
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St. Joseph?s Healthcare Hamilton in Hamilton, Ontario Canada has contracted with MDI Solutions to complete 7 interfaces between their McKesson? HBOC Star Admission, Order Entry and Results Reporting systems and the Meditech? ADT and Laboratory Information System installed at Hamilton Health Sciences. MDI?s HL7-certified technical staff will develop these interfaces using St. Joseph?s integration engine software with implementation slated for completion in 2007.
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December 2006 |
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Lawrence General Hospital in Lawrence, Massachusetts, www.lawrencegeneral.org, signed an interface support service agreement with MDI Solutions. MDI?s integration team will provide Lawrence General with 24x7 Interfacing Support Services. MDI will configure and maintain the Hospital?s interface engine monitoring application to proactively monitor all clinical and financial interfaces. MDI?s HL7 certified resources will also develop new interfaces for the Hospital and maintain existing data connections.
Lawrence General Hospital is a 175 bed facility located 30 minutes from downtown Boston. The Hospital is commited to the health needs of the community, which is deeply rooted in their values of quality, integrity, compassion and service. Their mission is guided by a Board of Trustees from their service area, and carried out by 1400 employees pledged to service excellence.
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November 2006 |
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MDI made a significant impact at the recent Ontario Hospital Association annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario with the launch of release 4.1 of their integration engine, MD Link, which featured their Health Level 7 (HL7) based ?Query/Response? functionality.
The new 'Query/Response' feature will allow two (2) or more independent vendors to effectively search and retrieve patient data from each other's software. This will enable healthcare institutions to consolidate patient data and data storage, and provide improved access to a unified patient record.
Thank you for dropping by the MDI booth at OHA and we look forward to seeing you next year in Toronto!
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October 2006 |
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Amgen Canada has contracted with MDI Solutions to extend its initial engagement. MDI will be working with Amgen Canada to design and create additional patient modality-specific reports to support their clinical analysis for dialysis patients. MDI?s technical resources will again use their integration software, MD Link, to extract the HL7 data and upload it into the database for reporting.
Amgen, www.amgen.com, pioneered the development of novel products based on advances in recombinant DNA and molecular biology and launched the biotechnology industry?s first blockbuster medicines. Today, as a Fortune 500 company serving millions of patients, Amgen continues to be an entrepreneurial, science-driven enterprise dedicated to helping people fight serious illness
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September 2006 |
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MDI Solutions is preparing to move its corporate office in Toronto, Ontario. MDI will be moving to 155 University Avenue in downtown Toronto and will be located in the heart of the University Hospital Block that is home to some of the city?s main Healthcare organizations; Toronto General Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children and Cancer Care Ontario.
The move will allow MDI to better serve its client base and provide improved service through a state of the art networked facility. The new office address is:
155 University Avenue
Suite 301
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3B7
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July, 2006 |
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MDI Solutions is playing a key roll in deploying the Ontario Wait Time Information Strategy (WTIS) project. WTIS is a government funded project with a mandate to provide (by December, 2006) a comprehensive system that monitors wait times and that works toward ensuring Ontarians receive timely and appropriate access to selected health services.
MDI technical resources have been contracted to work directly with the WTIS project team to coordinate the required data linkages with Ontario hospitals. Part of MDI?s responsibility includes managing connectivity and data integrity with the hospitals. MDI resources are also working directly with a number of the hospitals to manage the connectivity and data exchange on the hospital side. These hospitals include St. Joseph?s Health Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Sault Area Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie and Children?s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa.
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June, 2006 |
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Initiate Systems has selected MDI Solutions as one of its integration solution partners. Initiate Systems assists organizations to create complete, real-time views of people, households and organizations from data dispersed across an enterprise with their customer data integration and EMPI solutions.
MDI Solutions is working directly with the Initiate implementation team to assist a major pharmacy retailer in implementing a new enterprise single pharmacy system, towards the goal of integrating the patient, prescriber and script data spread across more than 2000 legacy store databases into a single enterprise level system. MDI will use its integration enablement software, MD Link, in tandem with Initiate's systems to facilitate the data cleansing.
The newly developed Query/Response feature of MD Link will be used to assist with the data integration. It will enable Initiate to use its software to effectively search, validate and retrieve patient data from the legacy databases and consolidate it into the single enterprise system. The tight coupling of MD Link with the Initiate system will provide seamless and immediate integration to complete this project.
Initiate Systems, www.initiatesystems.com, is a leading provider of Customer Data Integration (CDI) and Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) software and services for RHIOs and the on-demand enterprise. Initiate Systems enables customer-focused business strategies by providing customer and patient data to people and systems in real time.
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May, 2006 |
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Amgen Canada has selected MDI Solutions as an integration solutions partner. Amgen is a leading human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry. For 25 years, the company has tapped the power of scientific discovery and innovation to dramatically improve people's lives.
MDI Solutions will assist Amgen in extracting laboratory data from various hospitals and clinics across Canada (via the HL7 messaging protocol) to create a results database and patient modality-specific reports to support their clinical analysis.
MDI's technical resources will use their integration software, MD Link, to extract the HL7 data and upload it into the database.
MD Link connects independent applications and transforms data within a healthcare enterprise. Data sources and processes are displayed as a visual solution, enabling information exchange and customized integration solutions. The data transformation features of MD Link will allow Amgen to seamlessly extract data from the hospital based systems and convert it into a readable format to enable their analysis.
Amgen, www.amgen.com, pioneered the development of novel products based on advances in recombinant DNA and molecular biology and launched the biotechnology industry's first blockbuster medicines. Today, as a Fortune 500 company serving millions of patients, Amgen continues to be an entrepreneurial, science-driven enterprise dedicated to helping people fight serious illness.
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April, 2006 |
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St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto, Canada, www.stjoe.on.ca renewed their interface support service agreement to cover the coming year with MDI Solutions. MDI provides St. Joe's with 24x7 First-Level Interfacing Support Services. MDI proactively monitors all of SJHC financial and clinical interfaces using their MD Eye enhanced interface monitoring application. In addition, St. Joseph's Health Centre renewed their interface development retainer agreement for an additional year.
MDI Solutions will continue to serve SJHC as their preferred e*Gate? interfacing outsourced services vendor. St. Joseph's Health Centre is a large community teaching hospital which provides a full range of health care services.
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March, 2006 |
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MDI Solutions has been selected by two Toronto, Canada teaching hospitals to upgrade their integration engine technology. Toronto East General Hospital, www.tegh.on.ca, and North York General Hospital, www.nygh.on.ca, will use MDI Solutions' Health Level Seven (HL7) certified technical staff to facilitate their engine software upgrades.
MDI Staff will coordinate the upgrade at both sites with responsibility for all pertinent tasks including: hardware assessment, software coding change requirements, programming, 'Go-Live' planning and support. MDI Solutions was selected by the Hospitals based on their knowledge of integration engine technology and their experience performing similar upgrades.
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February, 2006 |
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MDI Solutions completes development of a new 'Query/Response' feature for their integration engine software, MD Link. Utilizing the healthcare industry standard Health Level Seven (HL7) protocol as the foundation for this new feature, MD Link has been enhanced to provide the Query/Response system connectivity component as part of the eHealth Collaboratory project, www.ehealthcollaboratory.ca, which is now available to the healthcare marketplace.
The Query/Response feature will allow two (2) or more independent vendors to effectively search and retrieve patient data from each other's software. This will enable healthcare institutions to consolidate patient data and data storage, and provide improved access to a unified patient record.
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January, 2006 |
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The Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA) in Ottawa, Canada, has selected MDI Solutions to conduct a Connectivity Estimates Review of a regional laboratory integration project. EORLA is an integrated hospital based regional laboratory system that provides laboratory medicine services for sixteen (16) hospitals across nineteen (19) sites in the Ottawa Region.
MDI Solutions will lead a multi-disciplinary team to asses the integration of laboratory data across the 19 sites. The two regional EORLA laboratories, sited at The Ottawa Hospital and Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, will function as the regional hub for the 16 hospital based laboratories. MDI will review and evaluate the integration model that was developed to facilitate referrals between these Regional hubs and the 16 hospitals, which recommends building interfaces between the various Laboratory Information Systems (LISs) for orders and results.
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