Healthcare Services Platform Consortium and the Center for Medical
Interoperability aim to advance development of innovative clinical
applications and services to improve patient care
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) and the Center for
Medical Interoperability are collaborating on technical initiatives to
enable clinical applications to easily and securely access health
information. The two provider-led, nonprofit organizations will leverage
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complementary strengths to develop compatible architectures and
platforms to facilitate the flow of data from the patient to clinical
applications and services that can enhance care.
Stan Huff, MD, chief medical information officer of Intermountain
Healthcare and chairman of the HSPC Board, said, “HSPC and the Center
are aligned in their goal to help people live the healthiest lives
possible. Combining resources to create a consistent technical platform
solution will benefit the entire industry and accelerate the
availability of interoperable clinical applications and services.”
“There is a natural handoff between our work at the medical device and
enterprise service levels, and HSPC’s platform for interoperable
clinical applications. We look forward to working with HSPC to ensure we
both get it right,” said Ed Cantwell, executive director of the Center
for Medical Interoperability.
The Center serves as a cooperative R&D arm for health systems, guiding
innovation and providing a vendor-neutral focal point to work with
solution providers. It is enabling health systems with a platform that
makes it easier and less expensive to share clinically rich data across
medical devices and IT systems. HSPC is focused on developing a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform for healthcare utilizing current
cross-industry standards, healthcare-centric knowledge coupled
terminology models based on the Clinical Element and HL7/CIMI models.
Together, HSPC and the Center will leverage the unified voice of
healthcare organizations to drive industry alignment and accelerate
innovation and time to market.
“From the beginning, HSPC recognized the importance of provider
leadership. The membership of HSPC, combined with that of the Center,
represents a strong market force to achieve cross healthcare
interoperability. Working closely with the Center, we will focus on
addressing clinical and business needs that positively impact patient
outcomes and the experience for all care providers,” said Oscar Diaz,
chief executive officer of HSPC.
The HSPC will be demonstrating open SOA architecture applications during
HIMSS’16 in the Interoperability Showcase (Booth #11954) and at the
Intermountain Healthcare exhibit (Booth #1632). For a schedule of HSPC
events at HIMSS’16, see www.HSPConsortium/HIMSS2016.
About the Center for Medical Interoperability
The Center for Medical Interoperability is a 501(c)(3) organization led
by health systems to change how medical technologies work together. We
aim to improve real-time information flow and make technology function
seamlessly in the background so we can achieve the best possible
outcomes for patients. Our members are committed to compelling change
and improving patient safety, care quality and outcomes, and reducing
clinician burden and waste. Learn more at www.center4mi.org.
About the Healthcare Services Platform
Consortium
HSPC is a provider led, not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder, membership
organization that is fostering an industry-wide collaborative for the
development of an open Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an
ecosystem of interoperable applications, knowledge, content and
services. As part of the development of the healthcare SOA, HSPC is
creating a federated model for multi-vendor RESTful web services,
leveraging HL7™, FHIR™ resources and HSPC specified profiles.
Similar to iOS and Android, HSPC supports a marketplace model for
plug-and-play healthcare applications leveraging the work at
Intermountain Healthcare, LSU Health, the VA VistA Evolution initiative
and others. The HSPC marketplace will support common services and models
that providers and vendors can use to shorten development and
implementation life cycles.
The Healthcare SOA will enable multiple collaborators to deliver
different parts of a solution set that address workflow gaps within and
between systems. This platform supports high-fidelity workflow models
that support acute, ambulatory and patient-centered medical home needs.
More information can be found at www.HSPConsortium.org.
Contacts
HSPC
Oscar Diaz
CEO
Todd
Cooper
Vice President, Business Development
or
Center
for Medical Interoperability
Kerry McDermott, MPH
Vice
President, Public Policy & Communications