Ten healthcare affiliations in New York City launched an information exchange last month.
The New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX), consists of 11 hospitals (eight are in Manhattan), the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, a federally qualified health center and a faculty practice organization, encompassing about 840,000 emergency room visits, 470,000 discharges, 6.8 million outpatient visits and 5.9 million home visits annually. Incorporated in 2005, the not-for-profit group has received federal and state grants to create its health information exchange.
NYCLIX’s member institutions are sharing data through the Centergy suite of health information exchange solutions provided by Cincinnati-based MedPlus, the healthcare IT subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics. The company’s portal technology, used by more than 80 healthcare IT systems, offers access to registration data, lab results, past diagnoses, clinical notes, medications, allergies and procedure codes.
“Successful interoperability between various systems is key to a large-scale HIE initiative such as ours,” said Gilad J. Kuperman, MD, chairman of the NYCLIX board and director of interoperability informatics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. “Our participating organizations include some of the largest hospitals in the most populous American city, and between inpatient and emergency department visits, account for more than a million encounters annually.
“NYCLIX has taken a great step forward in bringing the next generation of healthcare to the people of New York City,” said Richard Mahoney, president of MedPlus and vice president of healthcare information solutions at Quest Diagnostics. n
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