Optum Open Access Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Platform is the core of Optum Health Information Exchange, enabling HIEs to connect new and existing third party applications to the Exchange via exposed web services.
Empowers HIEs to:
- Leverage Platform as a service (PaaS) and SOA
- Integrate applications from multiple vendors into a single infrastructure
- Offer core and / or value-added services targeted to address the needs of the community
- Provide speed to value of the HIE to stakeholders
- Build a path towards long term sustainability
It’s About Interoperability
Using the most current industry messaging standards, the Optum Open Access Service Oriented Architecture uses standards such as HL7, CCD/CCR , IHE, HITSP and NwHIN specifications to support connectivity with a diverse range of locally hosted, Web based, and mobile applications.
Optum's Healthcare Connected Partners program includes a rich ecosystem of third party applications that HIE customers can trust will be quickly, easily and inexpensively integrated into their private, regional or statewide Optum HIE. These third party partner applications work seamlessly with Optum's Health Information Exchange, which includes a community-wide Master Patient Index (MPI), an EMR, Interoperability Hub, Community Virtual Health Record (VHR), and certified ambulatory EMR with integrated e-Prescribing and CPOE.
A few of the applications integrated with the Optum Open Access Service Oriented Architecture include:
- Optum Image Exchange, with partner eHealth Global Technologies - This integration enables authorized end users to view and manipulate DICOM images and studies from heterogeneous PACS systems throughout the medical trading area, through a unified viewer.
- PrimeSuite EHR, Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. - Third-party EMR connectivity and first EHR to integrate with Optum at an application level via web services versus the customary data level (e.g. HL7, CCD, CCR).
- Community Care Summary for Eldercare Agencies with 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.
It’s About Value
With Optum Open Access Service Oriented Architecture, HIE organizations can deliver unprecedented value to their stakeholders while simplifying implementation and reducing associated costs in the following ways.
Enables critical, high value applications to connect into the HIE
- Diagnostic image viewing & exchange
- Referral management
- Mobile applications for smartphones (iPhone, BlackBerry, & Android)
- Disease registries & care management applications
Simplifies connectivity with external systems through data gateways for message-based integration
- Personal health records (PHRs)
- Immunization registries
- Public Health organizations
- Insurance eligibility checking
- HIE-to-HIE data exchange
- Surescripts
- Emergency services
Optum's advanced interoperability services and HIE solutions are used by physicians, hospitals, Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) and Statewide HIEs to securely communicate, collaborate and share clinical information, greatly improving the timeliness, safety, and quality of patient care. Today, these HIEs can provide immediate additional value to stakeholders through the integration of additional applications and HIE services with Optum's Open Access Service Oriented Architecture.