Vangent announces launch of the Health Information Exchange Open Source software tool

Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process outsourcing solutions, announced today that it will provide an open source software tool known as Health Information Exchange Open Source (HIEOS™) making possible secure exchange of health information from multiple and disparate system and data sources.

HIEOS™ is part of Vangent's overall "open architecture" based health information exchange solution offered to federal and state government agencies as well as hospitals and regional health information organizations needing to exchange data across numerous mixed IT environments. This solution will improve quality and efficiency of medical care and reduce operational expenses, using existing systems and minimizing overall investment cost.

"The HIEOS™ solution moves Vangent closer to the Obama Administration's goal of private, secure exchange of health information. Open architecture maximizes the use of existing systems, in contrast to the replacement strategy of proprietary architectures," said Kerry Weems, Senior Vice President for Health Strategy at Vangent.

HIEOS™ has been selected by the Office of the National Coordinator, leading the Federal Health Architecture for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as a default XDS.b enterprise service component within the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) CONNECT Gateway Version 2.2, which was released in late September 2009. This places HIEOS™ firmly in the center of the technical solution for nationwide secure exchange of health information.

HIEOS™ includes an implementation of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) compliant Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b) and Cross Community Access (XCA) profiles. The setup details and specifications can be found at http://kenai.com/projects/hieos/pages/Home.

With the launch of HIEOS™ and its integration into the NHIN Connect Gateway, Vangent has firmly established itself as a premier technology provider in the Health IT arena, serving federal, state, local and private healthcare organizations.

SOURCE: Vangent