Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) and enterprise master person index (EMPI) solutions, recently introduced the Initiate Health Information Exchange for Hospitals and Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) solution, designed to serve as a foundation for connecting data within and between healthcare networks. With this foundation in place, healthcare organizations will be able to share patient and provider data within and across their ecosystem in order to support more accurate, consolidated views.

The Initiate Health Information Exchange solution indexes patient records from multiple disparate sources across the environment, enabling strategic initiatives like electronic health records (EHR) and clinical portals, while helping to improve efficiencies, increase patient and provider satisfaction, reduce errors that result from poor data quality, and create an interoperable environment that allows organizations to better serve their communities. It can also help healthcare organizations save millions of dollars in administrative costs.

“The Initiate Health Information Exchange solution, as the name implies, is the convergence of two very broad concepts within the healthcare ecosystem,” said Lorraine Fernandes, Vice President, Healthcare Industry Ambassador, Initiate Systems. “Health information exchange within and among healthcare organizations is one of the greatest challenges IDNs, regional health organizations (RHIOs) and payers face,” Fernandes said. “Providing a connection between the vast amount of data that exists in silos – and serving as a foundation for successful data exchange – is precisely the challenge we’re helping our customers solve.”