Technology

To build the health information exchange, HealtheConnections™ selected technology vendor Axolotl Corporation. Data exchange and integration from a variety of data systems is central to a health information exchange. HealtheConnections™ along with Axolotl software engineers work with each data-providing organization's staff to ensure a smooth and efficient approach to this technical task.

With a strong track record in connecting dozens of hospitals across multiple state lines, Axolotl quickly leverages existing hospital and lab messaging systems and portals to securely route clinical messages out to the HIE. Patient information is pulled from individual hospital, lab, or physician servers and made available for viewing.  The limited demographic data required to locate patient records is stored centrally, and detailed medical information is maintained in separate healthcare institutional databases.

The patient information is viewed through the Virtual Health Record (VHR), which is a web-based query tool that provides patient-specific community-wide clinical information including: laboratory reports, radiology reports, transcribed reports (such as discharge summaries), and medication history. Underlying this application is a sophisticated auditing and security mechanism which keeps track of all clinical results requested by individual users and provides patient consent tracking functionality.

The software applications are hosted and housed in secure, hardened data centers, with full data monitoring, security, system back-up and disaster recovery services. Technical maintenance and support are supplied by the Axolotl Corporation. HealtheConnections™ maintains a first line support center to answer questions and triage and resolve issues that arise.