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Elysium Exchange for Hospitals leverages the investment in a hospital's legacy systems by linking to HL7 interfaces, either directly or though the hospital's interface engine. Physicians receive electronic documents immediately, integrated with their EMR or Elysium's EMR-Lite, providing a complete patient record. Elysium Exchange for Hospitals is the connectivity solution hospitals need to meet today's interoperability challenges. And, because Elysium Exchange for Hospitals is built on industry standards that provide for full interoperability, hospitals that install it are instantly "Community Ready" - able to lead and contribute to regional Health Information Exchanges when the time is right. Meeting Physician Demand As admitting physicians purchase and deploy ambulatory care EMRs, they are insisting that hospitals now send copies of lab results, transcribed dictations and radiology reports in electronic form directly into their EMRs. Paper delivery is no longer appropriate. The choice of EMR is the decision of each practice, some using general purpose EMR systems while others need specialty EMRs. While a hospital may be able to influence some purchasing decisions it is likely that every community will end up with a wide range of different EMRs. Point to point interfaces from a hospital's internal systems to each ambulatory care EMR is not a cost effective or operationally viable solution. Using Axolotl's Elysium EdgeServer, part of Elysium Exchange for Hospitals, the problem is easily addressed - a single pipe through which all acute care systems can distribute copies of their data directly into any EMR. Going Fully Digital No healthcare community is homogeneous. Although the rate of adoption of EMRs is increasing, less than 25% of physician practices have deployed them, and usage levels are reported to be considerably lower. Hospitals are faced with the need to send data to some recipients electronically, to others by fax and to a third group by mail or courier, making the significant cost savings from electronic distribution illusive. Axolotl recognizes that hospitals will not realize true cost savings until they can distribute everything electronically. To help reach this goal Axolotl provides its Elysium EMR-Lite as a critical component of Elysium Exchange for Hospitals. Elysium EMR-Lite is a secure, browser based, easy-to-use results management tool that can be readily deployed to any admitting practice enabling hospitals to distribute data to all its affiliated physicians electronically. Elysium EMR-Lite has most of the clinical data functionality of a full EMR, including an optional e-Prescribing module, but costs little more than basic cell phone service. Portals - Not a Delivery Substitute Although many hospitals have developed excellent portals to allow physicians to access hospital data, this is not the same as delivery. Most hospitals additionally deliver copies of results to fulfill their duty of care obligations. Furthermore, physicians work with multiple acute care facilities and are not prepared to log on to a separate application for each facility to find out if data is available on their patients. Much like email, physicians want the data delivered, in real time, in a uniform manner and accessible through one application which is part of their daily office workflow. Elysium Exchange for Hospitals does exactly this. Consolidation In addition to solving the electronic data distribution problem, Elysium Exchange for Hospitals, through the Elysium EdgeServer, provides an optional database of all distributed data, organized by patient. The database can be accessed by hospital staff, through a secure browser, to provide a consolidated view of patient data for a much longer period of time than is usual with acute care systems. It can also be used to respond to queries from outside the hospital — for example from a neighboring Health Information Exchange — making the hospital instantly "Community Ready". Implementation Unlike EMR or HIS implementations, deploying Elysium Exchange for Hospitals is a simple, relatively painless process. Axolotl provides the hardware, the software and all the services necessary. Maintenance is handled automatically and administration requirements are minimal. Product components of Elysium Exchange for Hospitals:
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