June 2007

"Healthbridge Delivers Clinical Results to 23 EMR Systems"

HealthBridge, the largest Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) in the United States is delivering clinical results to 23 unique EMR systems using Axolotl's health information exchange (HIE) Elysium solution. The HealthBridge community of approximately 4,500 physicians and 21 hospitals (5 health systems), in the greater Cincinnati area have been electronically communicating results since 2001. With ambulatory EMR adoption on the rise, HealthBridge has been able to quickly accommodate the choices made by its physicians and now has more operational interfaces than any other community. Physicians receive clinical data directly into their EMRs – building a complete patient record.

“HealthBridge is thrilled to be able to provide significant value to physicians that are using EMRs,” said Bob Steffel, CEO, HealthBridge. “Data from 21 hospitals, 2 national laboratories, 2 imaging centers and other healthcare source systems is pushed to those physicians’ EMRs in a way that the EMRs can immediately accept. Using Axolotl's Elysium solution, we no longer have to update code or create customized point-to-point interfaces for each of our 23 community EMRs.”