August 2010 – Meditech EHR Integration
Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, to pilot the ‘new and improved’ MD Connect™ scripting software from MDI Solutions, which provides bi-directional integration between their CattailsMD EHR and Meditech.
Marshfield Clinic currently uses MD Connect to manage the high volume data exchange between their CattailsMD EHR software and Meditech’s HIS installed at Ministry Health System. The bi-directional interfaces (HL7 and non-HL7) connect the ADT, Scheduling and Billing systems between the two organizations. Marshfield also uses the software to enable a context passing link to access patients in the Meditech demographic database. The next generation MD Connect has a ‘state of the art’ user interface (GUI) that will provide improved day-to-day data management capabilities for Marshfield staff. It is also expected that processing speed and interface development time will be improved through the new software. Following a successful pilot, MD Connect will be used to connect Marshfield Clinic to additional sites.
Marshfield Clinic, http://www.marshfieldclinic.org, is a medical system with 41 centers located in northern, central and western Wisconsin. Marshfield Clinic Laboratories performs more than 20 million tests annually. The system of laboratories, which employs more than 450 people, serves clients across the nation. In addition to human medicine, it has established separate service lines for forensic toxicology, food safety and veterinary diagnostics. Marshfield Clinic Laboratories diagnosed in 2003 the first case of human monkey pox in the Western Hemisphere.
July 2010 – Eclipsys Meditech Integration
St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, will be working with MDI Solutions (as part of their ongoing integration services agreement) to connect their Eclipsys Emergency Care application with Meditech’s ADT.
St. Joseph’s are implementing the Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) from Eclipsys and are looking at process improvement opportunities as part of the implementation. The Health Centre has identified a goal of minimizing the time it takes to register a patient in their ADT system, which is the step that immediately follows patient triage on Eclipsys. MDI will use their MD Connect™ scripting software to accomplish this goal by electronically retrieving patient information from Eclipsys, ‘auto’ registering patients in the Meditech ADT, and then update Eclipsys with any ADT generated information. This process improvement will allow the St. Joseph’s clinicians to have greatly improved access to order tests and medications on emergency patients.
St. Joseph’s Heath Centre, (http://www.stjoe.on.ca), treats people from across the city, province, and country. St. Joe’s Health Centre’s staff includes over 900 nurses, 400 physicians, and 250 volunteers. Each year they have over 200,000 ambulatory patient visits, 85,000 emergency patient visits, 20,000 inpatient admissions, 3,400 births, and 24,000 surgical cases.
June 2010 – Cloverleaf Integration Services
Washington Hospital Healthcare System, Fremont, California, has contracted with MDI Solutions to provide a Senior Integration Analyst, to assist in the planning of a major integration environment upgrade.
Working in collaboration with Washington Hospital’s senior IT management, MDI have assigned a senior Cloverleaf™ integration analyst to conduct an integration engine performance review and disaster recovery assessment. MDI will evaluate the engine performance by reviewing the thread and process architecture, protocol configuration state, virtual memory structure, mass storage status and other key engine components. The disaster recovery assessment will provide planning and recommendations to deliver High Availability (HA) services in a networked environment, and guidance on Data Recovery Continuous Data Protection of the IBM AIX environments.
Washington Hospital Healthcare System, (http://www.whhs.com/), serves the residents of Fremont, Newark, Union City, and part of South Hayward and unincorporated Sunol with a population of approximately 320,000. Their comprehensive healthcare services include 24-hour emergency care; childbirth and family services; cardiac surgery, catheterization and rehabilitation; nutritional counseling; outpatient surgery; pulmonary function; crisis intervention; respiratory care; rehabilitation services; social services; laboratory; medical imaging; level II nursery and hospice care.
April 2010 – RIS Integration
Sectra Ltd., Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, builds on their relationship with MDI Solutions by contracting with MDI to provide HL7 and database integration services in Scotland.
MDI is currently completing a multi-site PACS migration to Sectra’s PACS system for NIPACS (the Northern Ireland PACS project). Based on the initial success of this project, MDI have been contracted to develop an HL7 Reports interface between Sectra’s RIS and a Misys Data Repository at Dr. Gray’s Hospital in Elgin.
Currently, the Misys Repository cannot accept repeating segments (occurs when multiple exams are linked to the same report) and expects one message per exam. Utilizing the data manipulation capability of their integration engine, MD Link, MDI technical resources will convert each ‘repeating segment’ into an ‘Unsolicited HL7 Lab Result’ message, which will then update the Misys data repository.
Sectra, (http://www.sectra.com) provides industry-leading RIS/PACS, mammography and orthopaedic solutions. They are committed to transforming your needs into efficient medical imaging and IT solutions. With more than 20 years of leading innovation and through close cooperation with customers and top research centers, Sectra maintains its position in the forefront of the medical IT development.
March 2010 – HL7 Interface to Integration Engine
Medirex Systems, Toronto, Ontario, builds on its relationship with Weeneebayko General by deploying MDI Solutions’ integration engine, MD Link, to facilitate extensive data integration.
Medirex initially engaged MDI Solutions to connect their document management software (via a Stored Procedure call) to Weeneebayko’s ADT system. Based on the success of this implementation, Medirex will be working with MDI Solutions to build multiple interfaces using MDI’s integration engine, MD Link. The initial project will have MDI resources develop an interface between Momentum Healthware’s ADT system and the Omnitech Laboratory system. Medirex and MDI will then be tasked with developing a Results interface from Omnitech, and a variety of other interfaces.
Medirex (http://www.medirexsys.com), is a Process Improvement Company that delivers information solutions by integrating people, processes, and technology. By achieving unique and in-depth partnerships with their clients, they anticipate their needs and design innovative solutions-oriented products, services, and support programs that deliver the right information to the right person at the right time.
February 2010 – HL7 Vendor Integration
Medirex Systems, Toronto, Ontario, is scheduled to deploy MDI Solutions integration engine, MD Link™, to facilitate HL7 integration at Weeneebayko General Hospital.
MDI Solutions provides Medirex with .NET programming expertise and technical resources to maintain point-to-point interfaces with their document management archive software. Medirex was looking for an improved method to connect their archive software to hospital information systems; one that would be easier to set up and maintain. MD Link was installed at Weeneebayko General Hospital and it is now set up to receive a HL7 feed from the hospital’s ADT system; where a Stored Procedure Call function will upload the data to the Archive software. Medirex now has more control and easier access to implement interface changes when software updates are required and new interfaces are set up much faster than before.
Medirex (http://www.medirexsys.com), is a Process Improvement Company that delivers information solutions by integrating people, processes, and technology. By achieving unique and in-depth partnerships with their clients, they anticipate their needs and design innovative solutions-oriented products, services, and support programs that deliver the right information to the right person at the right time.
January 2010 – HL7 Services and Database Integration
The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC), Toronto, Ontario, has contracted with MDI Solutions to develop HL7 interfaces in Ontario and Nova Scotia.
Responding to an HL7 Services RFP in September, 2009, MDI Solutions was successful in its bid response to develop interfaces between CPAC’s web-based surgical synoptic reporting tools (WebSMR) and hospital based ADT and Scheduling systems. Along with the requirement to develop interfaces to multiple disparate ADT and Scheduling systems, MDI will be tasked with designing and developing a ‘staging’ database to act as a mini rules engine for the WebSMR database, which will provide data validation functions and ensure data integrity. MDI technical resources will also develop interfaces from the WebSMR to export report files to various external systems.
The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, www.libertyhospital.org, is an independent organization funded by the federal government to accelerate action on cancer control for all Canadians. They are a partnership of cancer experts, charitable organizations, governments, patients and survivors, determined to bring change to the cancer control domain. They work together to stimulate generation of new knowledge and accelerate the implementation of existing knowledge about cancer control across Canada.
December 2009 – HL7 Services Rapid Deployment
Summit Orthopedics, Ltd., Woodbury, MN, has selected MDI Solutions to develop 4 separate interfaces with a 3 month go-live timeline.
Summit Orthopedics approached MDI Solutions late in 2009 to assist them in reviewing integration engine software, with a goal of developing 4 interfaces by April 1, 2010. The interfaces were required to connect GE Centricity’s EMR with Allscripts’ EMR and the Fuji eRad system.
With a contract in place effective December 31, 2009, MDI will assign two HL7 Interface Analysts with the following responsibilities:
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Conduct analysis and design tasks for the development of each interface system
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Perform programming in the development and implementation of interface systems with emphasis on minimizing support and maintenance requirements
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Implement interfaces in Summit’s interface environment ensuring integrity of data and minimizing disruption to customers
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Provide consultative support for maintenance of the interfaces, as required by Summit IT Services support staff
Summit Orthopedics, (http://www.summitortho.com), has 35 physicians, over 400 employees, and 27 locations throughout the East St. Paul, Minnesota Area. For more than 25 years, Summit Orthopedics has been building a practice devoted to meeting the orthopedic needs of their patients. The team of medical professionals at Summit is specially trained to treat a wide range of conditions or injuries that occur in adolescence, middle age, and later adult years. We treat patients with problems that range from broken bones, or fractures, to more specific conditions that require highly specialized procedures and treatment.
November 2009 – PACS Migration
Sectra Ltd., Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, has contracted with MDI Solutions to provide migration services and software to support the migration of PACS data in Northern Ireland.
Continuing with the contact award and implementation of their PACS software with NIPACS (the Northern Ireland PACS project), Sectra selected MDI Solutions to migrate existing PACS data from a number of Trusts including: LVH (Cerner), Ulster (Fuji Synapse), Causeway (AGFA), Daisy Hill (Fuji Synapse) Craigavon (Siemens) and South Tyrone (AGFA).
MDI’s migration team will be tasked with migrating and validating upwards of 30+ terabytes of data for the six Trusts who make up NIPACS. MDI’s migration process will access data to the level of the Study UID, which enables identification down to the individual image level. MDI will coordinate all aspects of the data migration activity including:
- negotiate network capacity with the local Trust and NIPACS to optimize the speed of the migration effort
- query source PACS by Migration Server to identify all studies to be migrated
- update each unique patient identifier as specified by NIPACS with a new regional HC&N
- divert studies that cannot be uniquely identified to a data repository
Sectra, (http://www.sectra.com) provides industry-leading RIS/PACS, mammography and orthopaedic solutions. They are committed to transforming your needs into efficient medical imaging and IT solutions. With more than 20 years of leading innovation and through close cooperation with customers and top research centers, Sectra maintains its position in the forefront of the medical IT development.
October 2009 – PACS Integration
Aimsability Limited, Surrey, UK, deploys MDI Solutions’ MD Link™ integration engine to facilitate integration at two of its customer sites.
Aimsability markets e-Learning software, WebAiMS, that combines RIS and PACS data to assist with clinical teaching and decision support activity. Aimsability will use MD Link to facilitate the import of RIS data into their PACS image review module. MD Link will enable the WebAiMS user to link the previously independent data sources and provide a superior teaching and decision making tool to the Radiology market.
Aimsability Limited, (http://www.aimsability.com), is a leading advanced Knowledge Management and e-Learning solution vendor for image-based medical data. Their solutions complement medical IT systems, adding a layer of functionality for content-based management and use of medical data and enable the integration of data from multiple sources in one coherent knowledge base. With powerful, easy to use and fully workflow integrated technology, they provide an efficient and cost-effective solution that puts the medical user in charge.
August 2009 – Integration Engine Deployment
Clinica Sierra Vista, Bakersfield, CA, has selected MDI Solutions’ MD Link™ software as their data integration solution, to connect internal and external systems.
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 EMR software, which they had recently acquired. It is anticipated 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 conversion feature, will allow Clinical Sierra staff to readily integrate the best-of-breed applications installed at the Clinic and more.
Clinica Sierra Vista, (http://www.clinicasierravista.org), has grown to become one of the largest, private, non-profit, community based and governed agencies in California. They are a leader in the provision of primary health care and preventive health education services. They are also a multi-institutional model for rural health care delivery. Since 1971, Clinica Sierra Vista has grown to twenty-four sites, with over 900 employees.
June 2009 – Cerner HL7 Interfaces
St. Anthony’s Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, has contracted with MDI Solutions to provide a Senior Integration Analyst to help manage the Center’s interfacing backlog.
Working in collaboration with St. Anthony’s departmental staff and vendors, MDI Solutions will assign their senior Sybase Impact™ integration analyst to assist the site with a backlog of interface requirements. MDI will be tasked with analyzing and scoping interface requests, developing a ‘road map’ to schedule and manage development, coordinate integrated departmental testing including test plan creation and provide training to St. Anthony’s staff on development techniques.
St. Anthony’s Medical Center, (http://www.stanthonysmedcenter.com), serves more than 800,000 residents in St. Louis County, southern communities and several counties in southwest Illinois. St. Anthony's is a well-respected medical center offering advanced medical treatment in a number of specialties, including acute rehabilitation, cardiology, women’s services, oncology/cancer care, orthopedics, neurology, surgery and emergency medicine.
May 2009 – ASP Vendor Integration
MedManager Interactive Corporation, Kitchener, Ontario, has selected MDI Solutions’ MD Link integration engine to connect hospitals and clinics to their ASP based Chronic Disease Management software.
MedManager approached MDI Solutions with a requirement to provide HL7 based connectivity to multiple contracted specialty clinics. MD Link will be used to provide both real-time and batch-based integration. MDI technical resources will assist MedManager to respond to the current workload of connections required by providing HL7 certified resource to developed the initial interfaces.
MedManager Interactive Corporation, www.medmanager.ca, was launched in 2002 with the visionary goal of offering people living with chronic disease improved access to healthcare education, professionals, and services via the Internet. Over the course of the next four years, the MedManager team worked with healthcare professionals across North America to design, develop, and test their original diabetes management portal. The culmination of these efforts was a successful clinical trial and studies that demonstrated that their solution empowered people with diabetes to enhance their health status and quality of life.
April 2009 – Microsoft Word™ to HL7 Conversion
MDI Solutions successfully completes a Word™ data conversion project with Sunquest Information Systems in the United Kingdom.
MD Link was used to automatically convert Word based discharge summaries to HTML and embed the document in an HL7 message for transfer to Physician Office systems. Development and Implementation resources at MDI worked with Sunquest UK to design and develop a new ‘plug-in’ for MD Link that could automate this process for UK based Hospitals and Trusts, thereby offering an alternative to fax or mail out of the documents.
MDI and Sunquest were responding to the national target to provide GPs with discharge summaries within 48 hours -- essentially impossible without good IT -- while practice based commissioning groups have started to include punitive clauses on clinical correspondence in their contracts with acute providers. More detailed information can be found at http://www.e-health-insider.com/Features/item.cfm?&docId=296 and http://www.sunquestinfo.com/Products/Pages/ICEDischarge.aspx.
March 2009
Trillium Gift of Life Network, Toronto, Ontario, have contracted with MDI Solutions to provide their integration engine, MD Link, and associated data integration services.
Trillium Gift of Life Network was created in December 2000 by the Ontario Government and assumed the role of Ontario's central organ and tissue donation agency with the challenge to significantly increase organ and tissue donation across the province and improve related processes and functions. MD Link will be used to automate the current manual process of organ donor notification from reference laboratories in Ontario; and further help Trillium to increase organ and tissue donation by building decision support rules within MD Link to streamline the notification process.
Trillium Gift of Life Network, www.giftoflife.on.ca, has a stated mission of saving and enhancing more lives through the gift of organ and tissue donation in Ontario and their vision is to be a world-class leader that enhances and saves lives through organ and tissue donation for transplantation. MDI Solutions expect to use MD Link and their integration expertise to help Trillium fulfill their value statement of being an effective, innovative leader in organ and tissue donation.
February 2009
Emerald Health Information Systems Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, a long-standing MD Link vendor partner, will activate the newly developed security feature (Secure Sockets Layer - SSL) of MDI Solutions’ integration engine, MD Link™, to support their latest implementation.
Emerald Health approached MDI Solutions in 2008 with a requirement to provide enhanced security and data integrity to support their software implementation with the Department of Health in New Brunswick. Emerald had already successfully used MD Link in a number of their implementations and now needed to deliver additional security. MDI’s development team met with Emerald Health’s technical resources to review the SSL requirements, and through the rapid ‘plug-in’ development capability of MD Link, they were able to add this new function to MD Link in a matter of days.
Emerald Health Information Systems Ltd., www.emeraldhis.com, is a leading developer of evidence-based decision support software for healthcare. Their solutions and services allow healthcare facilities around the world to optimize bed utilization, monitor and analyze key performance indicators and manage staff/unit workload. Emerald Health provides clients with easy to use, easy to deploy web-based decision support solutions that are fully MIS compliant and can be used by both nursing and allied health disciplines.
January 2009
Liberty Hospital, Liberty, Missouri, has contracted with MDI Solutions to implement their MD Eye™ enhanced interface monitoring application.
Liberty Hospital recognized that their existing interface environment monitoring capabilities did not meet their needs. They approached MDI Solutions to review their MD Eye application and determined that it would significantly enhance their capability to manage their interface engine activity and overall integration environment. MD Eye will be used to proactively monitor the runtime status of all financial and clinical interfaces at Liberty Health, keeping watch over critical elements such as disk space usage, processor utilization, network connectivity, queue sizes, and more.
Liberty Hospital, www.libertyhospital.org, is a regional medical center serving Clay and Platte counties, as well as the northwest Missouri corridor all the way up to the Iowa border. Liberty Hospital has 285 licensed beds, more than 1,600 employees and nearly 350 physicians covering all specialties.
December 2008
Medirex Systems, Toronto, Ontario, has extended their business relationship with MDI Solutions by contracting to install their MD Link™ integration engine.
MDI Solutions provides Medirex with .NET programming expertise and technical resources to maintain point-to-point interfaces with their document management archive software. Medirex was looking for an improved method to connect their archive software to hospital information systems; one that would be easier to set up and maintain. MD Link is now set up to receive HL7 feeds from hospital systems and the Stored Procedure Call function uploads the data to the Archive software. Medirex now has more control and easier access to implement interface changes when software updates are required and new interfaces are set up much faster than before.
Medirex (http://www.medirexsys.com), is a Process Improvement Company that delivers information solutions by integrating people, processes, and technology. By achieving unique and in-depth partnerships with their clients, they anticipate their needs and design innovative solutions-oriented products, services, and support programs that deliver the right information to the right person at the right time.
November 2008
Sun Microsystems (B.C.) Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, has contracted with MDI Solutions to provide JCAPS resources to work on the provincial interoperable Electronic Health Record (iEHR) system.
MDI Solutions was selected as part of a consortium of partners to assist with the development and implementation of a comprehensive electronic healthcare solution that will transform the way laboratory results and other essential patient information is securely shared amongst healthcare practitioners across the province. The systems will provide faster access to patient information, reducing wait times for procedures and saving healthcare costs by reducing the occurrence of re-tests.
October 2008
North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, has contracted with MDI Solutions to complete the data integration between their Cerner HIS and Powerscribe dictation system.
MDI Solutions’ integration team was tasked with completing the complex data integration requirements for this project. MDI was required to design and program interfaces from Cerner ORM to Powerscribe and from Powerscribe ORU to Cerner RadNet in MDM message format. MDI’s integration analyst was involved in all stages of the project from scope development to interface programming and deployment.
North York General Hospital (http://www.nygh.on.ca), including the IODE Children's Centre, is a community teaching hospital serving the people of north central Toronto and southern York Region. NYGH is affiliated with the University of Toronto and is a partner with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the Peters-Boyd Academy.
September 2008
Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home, Gloversville, NY, has selected MDI Solutions’ MD Link™ software as their data integration solution, following a multi-vendor procurement process. MDI Solutions will also provide Meditech™ NPR reporting and conversion to HL7 for Laboratory and Departmental Results.
Nathan Littauer was looking for a complete integration solution including standard HL7 messaging and monitoring; along converting Meditech Results from the native Magic operating system to HL7. The MD Link interface engine will enable the Hospital to take better control of their integration environment and proactively manage all interface activity with the MD Link Monitor. MDI Solutions will implement their MD Results application to automatically convert Meditech NPR reports to HL7 – this will facilitate improved data communication with their physician community as Results will be sent directly to physician office systems from the Hospital
Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home (http://www.nlh.org), is a 158-bed health care facility committed to quality care. As the only hospital in Fulton County, Nathan Littauer Hospital is a unique and essential health care resource that has served the community since 1894. With its 24-hour Emergency Department, Nathan Littauer serves as a vital entry point for a majority of the area's emergency cases.
July 2008
Community Hospital Anderson June 08 Anderson, Indiana, has selected the MD Link™ integration engine from MDI Solutions.
MD Link will be implemented at the Community Hospital Anderson to connect a variety of essential software systems. The key driver for Anderson was to find a vendor with experience integrating their Meditech™ software. Working with relatively short timelines to implement multiple interfaces, MDI resources will develop the initial interfaces and then hand over development to Hospital staff.
It is anticipated that MD Link will become a key component of the clinical and financial data management at the the Hospital. 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 Anderson staff to readily integrate all applications installed at the site and more.
Community Hospital Anderson is part of Indianapolis-based Community Health Network (http://www.ecommunity.com/anderson), which includes five hospitals and more than 70 sites of care. The mission of Community Hospital is to serve the medical, health and human service needs of the people in Anderson, Madison County and contiguous counties with compassion, dignity, respect and excellence.
January 2008
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.
October 2007
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.
September 2007
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.
July 2007
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.
June 2007
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.
May 2007
MDI Solutions and iSOFT launch partnership at CAEP 2007
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 TriageEDIS - 5 Level Triage and Patient/Bed TrackingiChartPro - Evidence Based Clinical Documentation and OrdersMDI 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 recordiSOFT'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 DuretteMDI SolutionsTel: (416) 255-5113 x269 Fax: (416) 255-8058Email: tdurette@mdisolutions.com
March 2007
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.
February 2007
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.
January 2007
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.
December 2006
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.
December 2006
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.
November 2006
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!
October 2006
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
September 2006
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 AvenueSuite 301Toronto, OntarioM5H 3B7
July, 2006
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.
June, 2006
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.
May, 2006
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.
April, 2006
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.
March, 2006
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.
February, 2006
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.
January, 2006
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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