Medicity once again validated its interoperability expertise with successful participation in this year’s IHE North America Connectathon – the nation’s largest interoperability testing event. During the event, we successfully performed more than 70 different test scenarios with 40 unique testing partners.

What does our success at the IHE Connectathon mean? That we are able to walk the walk – not just talk the talk – when it comes to implementing the entire gamut of standards-based health information exchange. It also proves our ability to integrate seamlessly within the workflow of EHR systems.

We passed every profile we tested at the event, focusing particularly on those related to the following HIE services:

• Identity Management Services: PIX v3 (manager), PDQ v3 (manager)
• Record Locator Services: XCA (initiating and responding gateway) and XCPD (cross-community patient discovery)
• Audit and Logging: ATNA (client and server), CT (consistent time)
• Exchanging data within the workflow of an EHR system:  (eXchange Document Service – XDS.b and the associated security profiles)

Health IT vendors that we demonstrated interoperability with during testing included:

• EHRs:
  • Allscripts (Enterprise, Professional, My Way and Sunrise)
  • Cerner (PowerChart, BrowserSoft)
  • NextGen
• HIE vendors:
  • CertifyMD
  • Oracle
  • Harris/CareFx
• And many more …

IHE is a recognized leader, both nationally and internationally, in creating healthcare industry standards related to the exchange of clinical information across organizational boundaries. Key IHE standards were adopted by the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange (NwHIN Exchange) and the Direct Project. And many statewide, regional, and private HIEs leverage IHE standards.