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Authorized Physicians Have Access to Complete Patient Data at the Point of Care

San Jose, CA, March 24, 2009 – Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County, the lead organization of the Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange (HIE), has implemented the Elysium® Virtual Health Record from Axolotl Corp., the nation’s premier provider of HIE solutions and services. Building on more than a dozen years of successful information delivery and interchange using Axolotl’s Elysium Exchange, authorized physicians are now able to query community wide data for a more complete clinical picture, improving the quality and timeliness of patient care.

Bill Beighe
Executive Director
Chief Information Officer of Physicians Medical Group

“We are excited to have taken our Elysium implementation to the next level,” said Bill Beighe, Chief Information Officer of Physicians Medical Group, a three hundred physician member IPA at the heart of the longest running, self-sustaining HIE in the country. “We have been using Axolotl’s solutions to exchange clinical information between disparate systems for the last thirteen years. With a single click, extended patient information is accessible and displayed like a patient chart.”

“Axolotl has been our HIE partner, continually evolving our solutions to meet our current health care needs,” said Marvin Labrie, Chief Executive Officer, Physicians Medical Group. “Our clinicians, at the point of care, can view patient labs, medications, allergies, radiology reports and more – assisting them in making quality decisions in a timely manner.”

“Our emergency department physicians will no longer have to play a guessing game or waste valuable time and resources by ordering duplicate lab and imaging tests, or calling primary care physicians,” said Nancy Greenstreet, MD, Medical Director, Physicians Medical Group. “From any secure browser they can quickly find a patient’s medical history, medications, specialty care, recent tests and procedures, and treat accordingly – in the ED this can mean the difference between life and death.”

Axolotl’s Elysium Virtual Health Record (VHR) provides a comprehensive view of the patient, allowing authorized physicians to electronically locate, connect to, and review a holistic patient chart that is drawn from data in multiple health care systems. All available patient data is assembled using a record locator service to create a complete electronic health record without commingling data from disparate sources. Authorized VHR users may also select specific data from a patient’s health record and download it to their EMR or EMR Lite application.

“Santa Cruz has been a role model for HIE in the United States,” said Ray Scott, Axolotl CEO. “The IPA spearheaded the initiative, bringing on board competing hospitals, labs, radiology centers and pharmacies to create an interoperable health care environment. The community has grown to include more than 95 % of the region’s population and more than 700 regular on-line healthcare professionals -Santa Cruz is healthcare connected.”

About Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange

Ray Scott
Axolotl CEO

Santa Cruz County is the most advanced and mature RHIO in the country.  The clinical network connects a large IPA, two competing local hospitals, the County Health Clinics, two national and two local reference labs, two imaging centers and several FQHC safety net clinics. More than one million web transactions occur each month on the Exchange as well as tens of thousands of new electronic prescriptions and refills.  

About Axolotl Corp

Founded in 1995, Axolotl Corp. is North America’s leading provider of browser-based products and services for secure health information exchange and management. Its award-winning Elysium® Exchange suite of solutions enables healthcare providers to instantly share information, reduce costs, and improve quality and efficiency.

Today, Elysium helps thousands of healthcare entities—including hospitals, health systems, regional health information organizations (RHIOs/HIEs), clinics, laboratories, radiology centers and physician practices—to securely exchange clinical information for more than 25 million patients. Elysium’s community-wide Master Patient Index, EdgeServer(s), Interoperability Hub (I-Hub), Community Virtual Health Record, and EMR Lite with integrated e-prescribing are all provided as a software service (SaaS). In addition, Axolotl-employed U.S.-based transcriptionists provide high-quality medical transcription services, rapid turnaround and total billing transparency using Elysium technology for report delivery.

Axolotl is based in San Jose and best known for introducing Clinical Messaging®, now at the heart of all health information exchange. For more information about Axolotl, see www.axolotl.com.

Contact: Nicole Spencer, Axolotl Corp, 530.269.1806, pr@axolotl.com