| Medicity
Executives to Speak at TEPR
SALT LAKE
CITY, UT, May 2, 2005
- Medicity, a leading provider of the software required
to build connected care communities and physician
portals for hospitals, IPAs, and RHIOs, announced
today that two of its executives will present at the
2005 Medical Records Institute’s annual TEPR
Conference which runs from May 14th through 18th in
Salt Lake City. CEO J. Kipp Lassetter, MD, and Vice
President Carol Owen will partner with presenters
from two of its customers—Lee Barnard, National
Strategic Director of the Client Connectivity Division
at LabCorp and Dr. Dennis Niess, Clinical Administrator
at Wheeling Hospital—to discuss Medicity solutions
that enable system interoperability and the sharing
and exchange of clinical information. According to
Lassetter, “Our message for this conference
is simple: we enhance the value of EMR systems by
connecting them with the crucial sources of clinical
data.”
With the rapid adoption of EMR and
other physician practice applications, healthcare
organizations are experiencing a commensurate demand
for interfaces to give physicians access to the data
they require. “As the need grows for Healthcare
providers to interconnect, the point-to-point, system
interface model becomes problematic. Medicity offers
middleware components that make data integration among
many systems and organizations feasible,” says
Owen.
“EMRs do an increasingly competent
job of facilitating patient encounter documentation,
but most are not designed to optimize data exchange
with other systems. Yet, most of the information required
to make care decisions originates outside the EMR.
What is wrong with this picture?” asks Dr. Lassetter.
“Medicity’s ProAccess
Clinical Suite was developed to make it feasible for
hospitals, labs, and other organizations to provide
clinical data—in the form required by the receiving
system—to entire communities of practices with
diverse EMR vendors. It also enables an organization
to painlessly participate in a community EHR/EPR initiative
like the RHIO’s of David Brailer’s national
strategy,” explains Owen.
“TEPR is a great place for
us to tell our EMR enhancement story,” says
Owen, who like Lassetter, came from the EMR industry.
“While we appreciate the benefits that EMR’s
can bring to the physician practice, we recognize
the difficulty physicians will face in creating connections
to their most important data sources. We want to solve
this problem.”
About
Medicity
Medicity Inc. creates software to enable the interoperability
of clinical systems in the healthcare enterprise and
in community-wide data sharing initiatives. Medicity
serves such large customers as Laboratory Corporation
of America (LabCorp), Unilab, IASIS Healthcare, Daughters
of Charity Health Systems, and Catholic Healthcare
West. For more information about Medicity, contact
801.322.4444 or visit www.medicity.com.
Media Contact:
Courtney Lassetter
Medicity, Inc.
801.322.4444 or email at courtney@medicity.com.
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