The Greater Ocala Health Information Trust in Florida has chosen PatientKeeper to provide a Web portal for physicians and an integration platform.
The health information exchange, which also does business as Healthy Ocala and Greater Marion County, aims to have the software up and running in late September or October.
The company offers a set of hosted health information management applications. Its Web-based approach helps customers avoid the cost of an in-house technology deployment, according to the company.
The application service provider solution “eliminates all upfront software, installation and hardware costs in lieu of a single monthly ASP fee that gradually ramps up over the first year,” said Peter Henderson, PatientKeeper’s vice president of marketing.
“This allows the [HIE] a year to get started without the tremendous financial burden, and [PatientKeeper] shares some of the risk,” he added.
PatientKeeper’s platform will integrate information from various systems in the Ocala region, such as a McKesson system at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala.
Healthy Ocala uses WorldDoc’s MyHealth 24/7 Web-based consumer portal, which includes a personal health record.
Henderson said the WorldDoc tool will be integrated into PatientKeeper.
He added that other Florida HIEs have expressed interested in the company’s products, but Healthy Ocala is the only one under contract.
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