Axolotl to demonstrate Elysium Open Access platform during HIMSS 2010

Axolotl Corp., the most experienced health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services company, today announced that it will be demonstrating its standards-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform — Elysium Open Access, with live third party applications – in operation today. Elysium Open Access is a core part of Axolotl’s Elysium® Exchange HIE suite.

“We are excited to have these important partnerships in place.”

For the past fifteen years, Axolotl’s advanced interoperability services have enabled physicians, hospitals, regional health information organizations (RHIOs), labs, imaging centers — entire communities to securely communicate, collaborate and share clinical information, greatly improving the timeliness and safety of patient care. By clinically networking all of the disparate systems of these diverse stakeholders, Axolotl seamlessly provides comprehensive information exchange for its users.

Elysium Open Access enables HIE organizations to deliver unprecedented value to their stakeholders in two ways. First, it enables critical, high value applications to simply connect into the HIE via exposed web services, bringing speed to value while simplifying implementation and reducing associated costs. Second, it enables data communications with external systems such as personal health records (PHRs), immunization registries, public health organizations and other HIEs through purpose-specific data gateways.

Elysium Open Access is a web services based platform that uses standards such as HL7, IHE and CCD/CCR to support both browser based and mobile applications. Furthermore, third party partner applications integrated through Elysium Open Access will work seamlessly with Axolotl’s SaaS products, which include a community-wide Master Patient Index (MPI), Interoperability Hub (I-Hub), Community Virtual Health Record (VHR), and certified ambulatory EMR with integrated e-Prescribing and CPOE.

During the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 in Atlanta, March 1-3, Axolotl will be demonstrating how Elysium Open Access integrates with third party applications and communicates with external systems, in operation today.

Elysium Open Access – Healthcare Connected Partners Include:

PrimeSuite EHR – Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.

• PrimeSuite 2011 is a pre-market CCHIT Certified® 2011 Ambulatory integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution. Clinical, financial and administrative functions of a medical practice are centralized in a single database – allowing medical practices to improve patient care, increase efficiency and maximize profitability.

Greenway is the first EHR to integrate with Axolotl at an application level via web services versus the customary data level (e.g. HL7, CCD, CCR).

“Since Axolotl’s development of Clinical Messaging®, the company has been a leader at understanding the intricacies and needs of HIEs, which successfully merges with Greenway’s advancements of standards-based interoperability solutions,” said Greenway Vice President of National Sales Mike Hairston. “We are proud to be partnering at this important juncture of not only HIE expansion, but the expansion of the entire healthcare spectrum’s interoperability future. The Elysium Open Access platform is a real-time, flexible and secure interface that realizes the next phase of information exchange and customer needs.”

Elysium Image Exchange – eHealth Global Technologies, Inc. (eHGT)

• Elysium Image Exchange enables the electronic sharing of diagnostic quality medical images between health care providers participating in an HIE.

“Using Axolotl’s Elysium Open Access platform, HIEs can offer a service that allows authorized users to view and access diagnostic quality medical images — including X-rays, MRI, CT scans and Ultrasound — from eight imaging sources at hospitals and radiology centers across a 9-county region,” said Gary Larson, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of eHealth Global HIE Services . “Our partnership with Axolotl has enabled us to easily integrate into existing HIEs via their exposed web services.”

Community Care Summary for Eldercare Agencies – PeerPlace

• Medical and social support that human service agencies provide senior patients is integrated into Community Care Summaries and made available to the senior’s medical team or emergency physicians

“In partnership with Axolotl, PeerPlace and the Monroe County Office for the Aging, Rochester RHIO has developed a community care summary that will be available to authorized users of the Rochester RHIO from fifty eldercare agencies,” said Ted Kremer, Executive Director, Rochester RHIO. “This partnership has enabled us to connect Monroe County services agencies for the aging so that providers can give efficient, informed elder care and ease the transitions of care.”

“Elysium Open Access is the next generation of Health Information Exchange, enabling stakeholders to integrate best of breed applications with our platform,” said Glenn Keet, President of Axolotl. “We are excited to have these important partnerships in place.”

Axolotl will demonstrate its Elysium Open Access platform during HIMSS 2010 in Axolotl’s Booth # 5021.

Additionally, Axolotl’s advanced interoperability services will be demonstrated at the Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS, Hall C Booth #233.