Axolotl celebrates 15 years of software development and HIE implementation

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) services and solutions, celebrates fifteen successful years of software development and HIE implementation. Since its founding in 1995, Axolotl has been providing advanced Clinical Networking™ solutions to meet the diverse and changing needs of physicians, hospitals, regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and statewide HIEs to achieve interoperability across entire medical trading areas.

“They are clearly connecting many of the most successful HIEs in the market with a wide range of solutions, adapting to the broad range of organizations, business models, technology environments and clinical specialties.”

“Axolotl was doing Health Information Exchange before there was even a name for it,” said John Moore, Managing Partner, Chilmark Research. “They are clearly connecting many of the most successful HIEs in the market with a wide range of solutions, adapting to the broad range of organizations, business models, technology environments and clinical specialties.”

This year marks significant accomplishments for Axolotl, including full certification for Elysium 9 as a CCHIT Certified® 2008 Ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR); software upgrades to Axolotl’s nearly 30,000 licensed physicians and further development and partnerships on Axolotl’s Elysium Open Access, a standards-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform, which enables third-party applications to be easily integrated into the HIE via exposed web services. Additionally, Axolotl completed a strategic partnership with Dell Perot Systems to resell the Elysium Exchange suite of solutions to their extensive hospital customer base.

“We are extremely proud of this significant milestone,” said Glenn Keet, President of Axolotl. “As the company’s first employee, I have had an opportunity to witness our growth, fueled by our subject matter expertise and strong customer relationships. We look forward to continuing to grow our company and supporting our customers to meet ‘meaningful use’ requirements with our first-class HIE solutions.”

Axolotl Key Facts/Highlights:

• Introduced the first community-interoperable EMR, enabled the first production use of a hybrid-federated community wide EHR, and coined and trademarked the term Clinical Messaging®, which is now used throughout the industry.
• Powers the most live multi-stakeholder HIE clients, according to KLAS Research Firm.
• Connecting 80,000 healthcare professionals on over 60 different EMR versions, 200 hospitals, 3 Statewide HIEs and 18 RHIOs. Clients include:
  • Santa Cruz HIE in California, the nation's longest running HIE and the first to implement bi-directional EMR interchange, electronic referral and other tools to create a patient centered medical home.
  • HealthBridge in Greater Cincinnati, one of the nation’s largest and most successful, sustainable HIEs with 28 participating hospitals and health systems, more than 700 physician practices, and 2.5 million patients.
    • Each month transmits 3 million clinical lab tests, radiology reports, and other clinical information to authorized physicians.
  • Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), the SDE for Nebraska.
    • 6,006,700 clinical lab tests, radiology reports, and other clinical information transmitted to date.
  • Quality Health Network (QHN) in Colorado, recognized by President Obama as a model for a health information exchange. QHN was also praised in The New Yorker magazine for achieving the lowest Medicare reimbursement rates in the nation, largely attributable to their sophisticated HIE.
  • Rochester RHIO in New York, a secure, electronic HIE that provides authorized medical providers with patient information from more than 20 health care organizations including hospitals, reference labs, insurance providers and radiology practices — serving more than 1.2 million patients.
    • Over 1500 users access the 1.42 million lab reports, radiology results and transcribed reports that are added to the HIE each month.
  • Franciscan Health System, with five hospitals in southwest Washington State.
    • More than 1800 health care professionals in Greater Tacoma logging in each day, generating over 2 million web requests each month.
    • Over 40 million lab, radiology and transcribed reports available in the Community Virtual Health Record.
  • Clara Maass Medical Center in New Jersey, live within 60 days, delivering lab, radiology, transcription, admissions and discharge summaries to physicians.
  • HealthLINC in South Central Indiana, a leader in Swine Flu Public Health Alert and Reporting mechanisms.
    • Includes greater than 150,000 patients in its community patient index and sends greater than 110,000 secure clinical results per month.

Certifications & Standards

• Elysium 9 is a CCHIT Certified® 2008 Ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR).
• Advanced Gold Certification with Surescripts.
• Incorporates and informs the latest standards from IHE, HITSP, CCHIT and the NHIN.
• Participation in the Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS as well as the IHE Connectathon, for the past three years.
• Participant in NHIN I and NHIN II projects and participated in a live NHIN demo connecting five HIEs in California.

To view a list of Axolotl’s customers, please visit www.axolotl.com/company/customers.html

To listen to customers’ video evaluations, visit www.axolotl.com/company/testimonials.html

“Axolotl’s in-depth knowledge of HIE, research and product engineering expertise have made Axolotl the leading provider for the past 15 years,” said Ray Scott, Chief Executive Officer of Axolotl. “Axolotl is positioned to continue delivering unprecedented value to customers through leading edge technology development, expanded service offerings and customer support and training – further improving health care quality and patient safety.”