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WelcomeWelcome to Delhi Hospital, located in Delhi, Louisiana. RICHLAND PARISH HOSPITAL GOES HI-TECHCAREFX TAKES THE LOUISIANA RURAL HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE (LARHIX) “LIVE” IN LESS THAN 5 MONTHS24 hospitals leverage the integrated platform to conduct teleconsultations SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—April 2, 2008— Carefx today announced the “go live” of its integrated, open systems platform for the Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX). This secure, web-based infrastructure developed in collaboration with industry leaders CA, IBM, and Initiate Systems provides the real-time electronic data exchange for the teleconsultation services linking the 24 Northern Louisiana community providers with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in Shreveport. “LARHIX has set the new standard and a model for successful deployment of a Health
Information Exchange to serve its rural population,” said Andy Hurd, Chairman and CEO
of Carefx. “We are excited and proud to be a part of this initiative that combines the
Carefx interoperability platform for access to a patient’s complete medical record with
the teleconsult services to empower specialists at LSU to provide world-class healthcare
to patients in areas of the state that specialty care would otherwise not be available.
This is healthcare as it should be, not restricted by geographic separation or the limits of The milestone event was marked with a legislative walk-thru and live demonstrations on March 27, 2008, at the Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. The event demonstrated how a patient suffering from heart disease could “attend” his appointment with a Shreveport-based heart specialist, with full access to the patient’s clinical record, without leaving his rural Louisiana hospital via the new telemedicine program. According to Louisiana Senator Francis Thompson, who attended the event, “This eHealth initiative will have a tremendous impact on our communities. LSU physicians' access to rural patient information combined with the telemedicine services will not only provide patients with easy access to specialists’ care, but they will also reduce the often prohibitive costs and logistics associated with receiving such care.” The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure,
anywhere, anytime access to a portal-based view of patient-centric data housed in
disparate applications across multiple hospitals. Fusion from Carefx provides the
platform, architecture, and aggregate view of real-time patient data. IBM Websphere
provides the portal framework, while user authentication and single sign-on, policy-based
authorization, identity federation, and auditing of access is provided by CA’s Identity &
Access Management suite of products. The architecture and data flow among the four Seven of the 24 Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition (LRHC) members are participating in the first year: Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi, Homer Memorial Hospital in Homer, Union General Hospital in Farmerville, LaSalle General Hospital in Jena, Hardtner Medical Center in Olla, DeSoto Regional Health System in Mansfield, and Bunkie General Hospital in Bunkie. Added Hurd, “By utilizing Carefx’s federated data model, LARHIX was able to avoid the politics of data ownership and the costly and time-consuming “heavy lifting” of creating and maintaining duplicate data bases that have plagued or killed other HIE initiatives. By understanding not just the technology needs, but the practical needs for physicians and patients, we have effectively worked with our technology partners to deploy an interoperable, patient-centric platform that provides real-time data sharing and collaboration across the 24 community hospitals in just months instead of years.” This eHealth program was made possible by funds appropriated in the 2007 Louisiana Legislative session, spearheaded by the Senate President, Don Hines, and Representative Francis Thompson. “This extremely important initiative empowers our state’s valuable caregivers with the means to interact and share critical data more efficiently and effectively, resulting in better services for our state’s rural and underserved communities,” said Sen. Hines. The next phase of the eHealth rollout will expand to 54 new remote locations serving more than 1.4 million unique patients. For more information regarding LARHIX, please visit http://www.carefx.com/DEV/customer-stories/larhix.htm and http://www.larhix.org/. The breaking newscast may be seen at http://carefx.com/videos/larhix_0408.wmv. Interoperability platform to streamline regional healthcare data exchange in rural and underserved areas of Northern Louisiana Delhi, Louisiana—Oct. 8, 2007—The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, in conjunction with the Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition, Inc. (LRHC) and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), today announced the launch of a regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) to facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data to provide safer, more timely, efficient, effective, equitable, patient-centered care. This initiative was made possible by funds appropriated in the 2007 Louisiana Legislative session, spearheaded by Senate President Don Hines and Representative Francis Thompson. 
Michael Carroll, Richland Parish Hospital Administrator, Senate President Donald E. Hines, Linda Welch, Executive Director of LRHC, Dr. John McDonald, LSUHSC Chancellor, and Representative Francis Thompson. The HIE initiative, which will facilitate real-time collaboration on patient care between rural hospitals in North Louisiana and the LSUHSC-S, is based on an interoperability platform that will provide healthcare professionals with secure access to a unified view of medical records from any provider database connected to the network within a clinical portal. Endorsed by Senator Donald E. Hines, M.D., (D-La.) and Rep. Francis Thompson (D 19-Delhi), the network will facilitate the sharing of health care data among providers without regard to where the consumer resides or where the patient care was delivered. The over-arching goal of this program is to bring cutting edge medicine and specialized care to rural communities and improve communication and collaboration among clinicians and patients, resulting in excellent quality of care and patient safety. Of the 24 RHC hospitals included in North Louisiana, the year one participants will be: Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi, Homer Memorial Hospital in Homer, Union General Hospital in Farmerville, LaSalle General Hospital in Jena, Hardtner Medical Center in Olla, DeSoto Regional Health System in Mansfield, and Bunkie General Hospital in Bunkie. These 7 rural hospitals will be the first to deploy the clinical portal, provided by leaders in web-based interoperability solutions, including Carefx Corporation in Scottsdale, Ariz., the creator of the industry's only open and scalable information aggregation platform, and CA in Islandia, N.Y., makers of Identity Manager technology that secures access to web services and enterprise applications, and IBM, manufacturer of the WebSphere Clinical Portal, which seamlessly aggregates embedded data from various information solutions into a browser-based clinical dashboard. “Partnering with LSU’s Health Science Center, led by Chancellor Dr. John McDonald, just makes good sense - it is recognized nationwide as a leader in providing inpatient and outpatient care,” stated Linda Welch, Executive Director of the LRHC. “We will now benefit from the Center’s expertise in disease-management protocols, quality indicators, rotation of its doctors in rural communities, and many other healthcare initiatives.” Welch continued, “With the Center’s help, rural citizens will be able to obtain the best care possible right where they live. Dr. McDonald and I are determined to achieve this goal.” “Because alternative sources of care in the rural community are scarce, each care provider plays a critical role in supporting the local healthcare system,” said Jamie Welch, Chief Information Officer, LRHC. “The advanced technologies we’ve selected for this program are designed to improve access to real-time patient data, expand local access to needed specialty services, and spend more time collaborating on a patient’s condition with referring doctors or nurse practitioners.” “This extremely important initiative empowers our state’s valuable caregivers with the means to interact and share critical data more efficiently and effectively, resulting in better service to our state’s rural and underserved communities,” said Sen. Hines. A tour of Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi demonstrated their new health information system (Dairyland Healthcare Solutions), and a reception celebrating the regionalized health information network project was held at the Black Bear Golf Clubhouse. About Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition, Inc. About Carefx Corporation
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