Overland Park, KS (PRWEB) June 27, 2013
Netsmart announced nowadays it has been selected by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) to obtain an Electronic Wellness Record (EHR) Vendor Interface Grant that will assist the Commonwealth reach the goal of connecting each healthcare provider in the Commonwealth to the Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE), the Mass HIway.

The $ 75,000 grant will offer Netsmart with a portion of the resources necessary to create a secure and seamless interface to the Final-Mile Mass HIway. MeHI designed the Last-Mile Mass HIway EHR Interface Options System to encourage and help EHR vendors in the integration of the capacity to use the Mass HIway for secure electronic communication between healthcare entities in Massachusetts. MeHI’s objective for this program is to stimulate the speedy adoption of the Commonwealths HIE services and make certain that the largest number of providers can connect to the Mass HIway in the shortest quantity of time, and to totally assistance the electronic exchange of patient and public health connected information amongst diverse organizations.

“We are pleased to obtain this grant from MeHI to help facilitate the coordinated exchange of clinical info across all points of care,” stated Michael Valentine, chief executive officer, Netsmart. “This is specifically important at a time of improved integration of behavioral overall health and major care, and as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts utilizes Integrated Care Organizations (ICOs) for the delivery and management of integrated, comprehensive care.”

“Some of our most advanced clientele are providers in Massachusetts,” said Valentine. “This investment by MeHI and Netsmart will enable them and other providers to accelerate their care coordination approaches. We are excited to play a continued role in Massachusetts as it serves as a proving ground for well being policies to be rolled out nationwide.”

Netsmart is also the catalyst for secure information exchange among providers in other HIEs, like the Brooklyn Wellness Details Exchange (BHIX), Healthix, Inc. and the Kentucky HIE.

“MeHI assists the Commonwealths well being care community adopt secure wellness technology and attain interoperability,” mentioned Laurance Stuntz, director of the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech. “This interface grant system assists us move with each other toward that shared objective.”

“By means of this grant awarded to Netsmart, we are pleased to assistance our shared mission of connecting EHRs to the Mass HIway in an effort to ease barriers to provider adoption,” said Sean Kennedy, director, HIE. “This is a vital step in producing a platform to allow the safe, effective and price-successful flow of patient information.”

The numerous Massachusetts providers will be linked to the Mass HIway through Netsmarts CareConnect, which enables the sharing of info between and among providers involved in the care of a customer, and with other entities such as RHIOs, HIEs and Health Properties. CareConnect will be utilized in conjunction with the Netsmart myAvatar CareRecord to supply a safe implies to exchange clinical and administrative info.

The grants are also developed to support EHRs meet new federal EHR Technologies Certification criteria that need the EHR systems to incorporate Direct-compliant data exchange capabilities. The Direct Project is making a low-expense, sensible mechanism for exchanging overall health data more than the World wide web.

About Mass HIway

The Massachusetts Wellness Data Highway (Mass HIway) is collaboration amongst the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and the Massachusetts eHealth Institute to deploy a secure statewide overall health details exchange. The Mass HIway enables the electronic movement of well being connected details among diverse organizations, such as physicians offices, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, skilled nursing facilities and health plans.

About Netsmart

Netsmart is the leading provider of clinical and business options for wellness and human solutions organizations nationwide. They are committed to helping well being and human services providers provide efficient, recovery-primarily based care with Netsmart CareFabric, a tightly woven framework of revolutionary clinical and organization options and solutions that supports integrated, coordinated delivery of wellness services across the spectrum of care.

Much more than 22,000 client organizations, like 350,000 care providers and much more than 40 state systems use Netsmart items to support increase the quality of life for tens of millions of folks every year. Netsmart clients consist of mental overall health and addiction remedy agencies, psychiatric hospitals, private and group mental well being practices, public health departments, social solutions and kid and family wellness agencies, essential records offices, and managed care organizations.

Netsmart is pleased to assistance the Each day Matters Foundation, which was established for behavioral and public wellness organizations to understand from every single other and share their causes and stories. Organizations can also request grants for their trigger or to support fund technologies that advances the way care is delivered. For much more information, visit http://www.everydaymatters.com/foundation.

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