Standards

Medicity Supports Standards – And Goes beyond Standards

Medicity supports all core healthcare industry standards but is not limited by them. Our solutions excel in tying together disparate systems, whether from the perspective of:

• Technology standards
• Nomenclature
• Data-element standards
• Coding-transactions standards
• Extensive Standards
• Implementation Experience

 

Medicity has extensive experience in implementing all core healthcare industry standards, including:

 

Transaction sets

Medicity's products support all HIPAA-standard transaction sets including HL7 and ANSI. Among the standards we support are ASTM, LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, ICD -9CM, ICD-10, X12N, NCPDP, HCPCS, and CPT. While we support these standards, we are not limited in any way to using only these standards and code sets.

 

Message formats

Medicity has an extensive library of connecting and routing adaptors with the most prevalent being SOAP over HTTPS. These adaptors have been used with a wide variety of commercially available hospital, reference lab, payer, practice management, and electronic medical records products. The adaptors support a multitude of message payloads including HL7 v2.x - 3.x, ASTM CCR, NHIN CCD, NCPDP, ANSI HIPAA, XML-CCR, 3rd party proprietary formats, bridge interfaces, and many more.

In addition, Medicity supports the HITSP format rationalization standard of Continuity of Care Document (CCD), which harmonizes the current HL7 v3 CDA and the ASTM CCR.

 

IHE interoperability profiles

Medicity is IHE certified (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise). We support patient search and exchange (PIX/PDQ support) services, clinical document search and exchange services (XDS/XDA), and auditing (ATNA) services.

View our IHE Integration Statement

 

National HIE-to-HIE standards

While demonstrating lab and biosurveillance use cases during the National Health Information Network (NHIN) trial implementation, Medicity showed it supports both current and new technical messaging and security standards for secure HIE-to-HIE exchange, including: core Microsoft-certified web service extensions, X.509 Certificate Token, SAML, and SOAP message security.

 

Standards at the Local Level

It is important to acknowledge, however, that although standards enhance information-sharing in the enterprise and community setting—particularly when data must be aggregated for patient-centric presentation and analytics purposes—they are not always a viable means to facilitate exchange at a local level because of variations in standards implementation.

A successful exchange solution must, therefore, be able to adapt to and bridge current and future standards—and address proprietary formats as well.

Our elegant solutions have evolved to become standards independent, enabling them to bridge disparity by translating formats without requiring vendors to upgrade commercial products to meet changing standards—ultimately providing immediate time-to-value for all parties.

 

Future Standards Leadership

In addition to supporting all currently accepted standards, Medicity takes an active leadership role in the definition, implementation and testing of future standards.