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Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange and CareScience Announce Next
Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange and CareScience Announce Next Step in Roll-out of Care Data Exchange Solution Santa Barbara Regional Health Information and Data Sharing Solution Completes User Testing; Roll-Out Planning Underway
The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc., a non-profit community organization created to enable regional health information sharing within Santa Barbara County, and CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX) providing care management, clinical analysis and regional health information data sharing solutions for hospitals and healthcare systems, today jointly announced the successful completion of system user-acceptance testing of the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange(R) solution in Santa Barbara County, California and imminent plans for a phased roll-out to the community.
The Care Data Exchange solution (CDE) is the first peer-to-peer clinical data exchange designed to enable healthcare providers to securely share clinical data at the point-of-care. The CDE was developed by CareScience in collaboration with the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange project and the California HealthCare Foundation, which provided funding for the project.
"This is a significant milestone in a pioneering effort," said Sam Karp, chief program officer for the California HealthCare Foundation. "Santa Barbara County will become the first community in the United States to deploy a secure method for sharing clinical information across all of the health care institutions in the community. Over time, we expect this effort to significantly improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery for the residents of Santa Barbara, while serving as an operating model for the rest of the country."
The CDE uses peer-to-peer technology with a central, "smart index" and a federated data model to access clinical results from multiple data providers and IT systems within participating healthcare organizations across Santa Barbara County. The system provides secure data access without using a central data repository. Using the CDE, authorized users within the network can access a "patient-centric" view of clinical and administrative results, including patient demographics, laboratory, pharmacy data, radiology, medical records and transcription, as well as eligibility and referral information.
"We are eager to begin the rollout of the CDE, taking the next step forward in bringing our ultimate vision of a fully-connected healthcare community to the patients and healthcare providers in our region," said Michael Skinner, executive director, Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc. "We recently reached a significant milestone in the process by successfully completing key portions of user acceptance testing, signifying our readiness to begin deployment. We are anxious to see the impact of the system in full use and to realize the potential we believe will result from the hard work that went into making this remarkable vision a reality."
The project has recently completed three phases of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), which included:
In Santa Barbara County, and in many communities nationwide, a heavy reliance on paper-based medical records, combined with disparate, enterprise-specific legacy systems, has prevented easy access to clinical patient records among various healthcare institutions and providers within the medical community. In support of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), the CDE solution combines strategy, implementation, and operational services with technological infrastructure, to facilitate the development, governance and operation of community-based health data sharing initiatives.
"The CDE was envisioned to address what is now a well-accepted and growing demand for interoperability between competing healthcare providers' underlying IT infrastructure," said Ronald A. Paulus, M.D., chief healthcare officer, Quovadx, Inc. "Working hand-in-hand with the Santa Barbara healthcare community and with the support of the California Healthcare Foundation, we have implemented a system with the ultimate goal of reducing medical errors, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and ambulatory visits and minimizing duplicate testing -- while easing providers' access to the information they need. We are eager to observe and document the impact of this capability as the rollout progresses."
"At Quovadx, we see reliable access to clinical data at the point-of-care as a cornerstone of any practical strategy to improve quality and efficiency in healthcare delivery," said Harvey A. Wagner, chief executive officer, Quovadx, Inc. "It is heartening to note that numerous national experts have proposed a model for the National Health Information Network that is very similar to the Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange system and we hope to continue to contribute to these local and national efforts going forward. We believe that the CDE solution, as well as other core QUOVADX(TM) interoperability technologies designed specifically for healthcare, underscore our support of the goals established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's strategic framework and further establish our commitment to innovation in healthcare IT."
The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc. (SBCCDE) is funded in part through a contract with the Foundation for eHealth Initiative (FeHI) and their cooperative agreement with HRSA, Office for the Advancement for Telehealth (HRSA/OAT)(1). It is comprised of nine local health care organizations including the Sansum-Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic, the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority, a regional health plan, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, three community hospital systems and regional laboratory and pharmacy data providers.
About Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc.
The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc, (SBCCDE) was created in September 1999. Development of the organization was supported in part by the California HealthCare Foundation. In February 2004 the SBCCDE incorporated as an independent, non-profit organization, governed by a board of directors comprised of individuals from participating organizations.
About CareScience
CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), is one of the nation's leading providers of care management services and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems, and a pioneer in community-wide clinical data exchange. CareScience supplies the people and technology to ensure that high-quality care is delivered, throughout the healthcare system, through clinical data access and clinical process transformation. For more information, please visit www.carescience.com.
About Quovadx
Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), a global software and services firm based in Englewood, Colorado, has helped more than 20,000 enterprise customers worldwide develop, extend and integrate applications based on open standards. Quovadx is comprised of three divisions, the Integration Solutions division, which offers vertically specific solutions to improve processes and leverage existing technology systems, the CareScience division, which provides care management services and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems and is a pioneer in community-wide clinical data exchange and the Rogue Wave Software division, which provides reusable software components and services that facilitate application development,. Quovadx serves companies in healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and the public sector. Quovadx operates internationally with more than 450 employees. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com.
QUOVADX is a trademark of Quovadx, Inc. Care Data Exchange is a registered trademark of the California Healthcare Foundation. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
(1) The contents of this presentation are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of HRSA/OAT or FeHI.
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Business Editors
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--
The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc., a non-profit community organization created to enable regional health information sharing within Santa Barbara County, and CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX) providing care management, clinical analysis and regional health information data sharing solutions for hospitals and healthcare systems, today jointly announced the successful completion of system user-acceptance testing of the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange(R) solution in Santa Barbara County, California and imminent plans for a phased roll-out to the community.
The Care Data Exchange solution (CDE) is the first peer-to-peer clinical data exchange designed to enable healthcare providers to securely share clinical data at the point-of-care. The CDE was developed by CareScience in collaboration with the Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange project and the California HealthCare Foundation, which provided funding for the project.
"This is a significant milestone in a pioneering effort," said Sam Karp, chief program officer for the California HealthCare Foundation. "Santa Barbara County will become the first community in the United States to deploy a secure method for sharing clinical information across all of the health care institutions in the community. Over time, we expect this effort to significantly improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery for the residents of Santa Barbara, while serving as an operating model for the rest of the country."
The CDE uses peer-to-peer technology with a central, "smart index" and a federated data model to access clinical results from multiple data providers and IT systems within participating healthcare organizations across Santa Barbara County. The system provides secure data access without using a central data repository. Using the CDE, authorized users within the network can access a "patient-centric" view of clinical and administrative results, including patient demographics, laboratory, pharmacy data, radiology, medical records and transcription, as well as eligibility and referral information.
"We are eager to begin the rollout of the CDE, taking the next step forward in bringing our ultimate vision of a fully-connected healthcare community to the patients and healthcare providers in our region," said Michael Skinner, executive director, Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc. "We recently reached a significant milestone in the process by successfully completing key portions of user acceptance testing, signifying our readiness to begin deployment. We are anxious to see the impact of the system in full use and to realize the potential we believe will result from the hard work that went into making this remarkable vision a reality."
The project has recently completed three phases of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), which included:
| -- | Phase I - security, access control and architecture testing to confirm the safe, secure and reliable use of the system, |
| -- | Phase II - system auditing to verify completeness and accuracy of data and its presentation, |
| -- | Phase III -physician use testing during their daily office workflow, to confirm reliability and ease of use of the system. |
In Santa Barbara County, and in many communities nationwide, a heavy reliance on paper-based medical records, combined with disparate, enterprise-specific legacy systems, has prevented easy access to clinical patient records among various healthcare institutions and providers within the medical community. In support of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), the CDE solution combines strategy, implementation, and operational services with technological infrastructure, to facilitate the development, governance and operation of community-based health data sharing initiatives.
"The CDE was envisioned to address what is now a well-accepted and growing demand for interoperability between competing healthcare providers' underlying IT infrastructure," said Ronald A. Paulus, M.D., chief healthcare officer, Quovadx, Inc. "Working hand-in-hand with the Santa Barbara healthcare community and with the support of the California Healthcare Foundation, we have implemented a system with the ultimate goal of reducing medical errors, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and ambulatory visits and minimizing duplicate testing -- while easing providers' access to the information they need. We are eager to observe and document the impact of this capability as the rollout progresses."
"At Quovadx, we see reliable access to clinical data at the point-of-care as a cornerstone of any practical strategy to improve quality and efficiency in healthcare delivery," said Harvey A. Wagner, chief executive officer, Quovadx, Inc. "It is heartening to note that numerous national experts have proposed a model for the National Health Information Network that is very similar to the Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange system and we hope to continue to contribute to these local and national efforts going forward. We believe that the CDE solution, as well as other core QUOVADX(TM) interoperability technologies designed specifically for healthcare, underscore our support of the goals established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's strategic framework and further establish our commitment to innovation in healthcare IT."
The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc. (SBCCDE) is funded in part through a contract with the Foundation for eHealth Initiative (FeHI) and their cooperative agreement with HRSA, Office for the Advancement for Telehealth (HRSA/OAT)(1). It is comprised of nine local health care organizations including the Sansum-Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic, the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority, a regional health plan, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, three community hospital systems and regional laboratory and pharmacy data providers.
About Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc.
The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc, (SBCCDE) was created in September 1999. Development of the organization was supported in part by the California HealthCare Foundation. In February 2004 the SBCCDE incorporated as an independent, non-profit organization, governed by a board of directors comprised of individuals from participating organizations.
About CareScience
CareScience, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), is one of the nation's leading providers of care management services and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems, and a pioneer in community-wide clinical data exchange. CareScience supplies the people and technology to ensure that high-quality care is delivered, throughout the healthcare system, through clinical data access and clinical process transformation. For more information, please visit www.carescience.com.
About Quovadx
Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq:QVDX), a global software and services firm based in Englewood, Colorado, has helped more than 20,000 enterprise customers worldwide develop, extend and integrate applications based on open standards. Quovadx is comprised of three divisions, the Integration Solutions division, which offers vertically specific solutions to improve processes and leverage existing technology systems, the CareScience division, which provides care management services and analytical solutions to hospitals and health systems and is a pioneer in community-wide clinical data exchange and the Rogue Wave Software division, which provides reusable software components and services that facilitate application development,. Quovadx serves companies in healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and the public sector. Quovadx operates internationally with more than 450 employees. For more information, please visit http://www.quovadx.com.
QUOVADX is a trademark of Quovadx, Inc. Care Data Exchange is a registered trademark of the California Healthcare Foundation. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
(1) The contents of this presentation are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of HRSA/OAT or FeHI.
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CONTACT: Quovadx, Inc. Andrea Lashnits, 720-554-1246 andrea.lashnits@quovadx.com
KEYWORD: COLORADO CALIFORNIA PENNSYLVANIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE MEDICAL SOFTWARE NETWORKING PRODUCT SOURCE: Quovadx, Inc. / Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, Inc.
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