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KLAS Research is a healthcare IT analyst organization that serves the healthcare provider community through research and analysis of IT vendors and their products.  They are well respected and many organizations utilize their analysis in IT research, planning, and execution. With that as background, NextGate is pleased to announce that MatchMetrix ...

The creation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) is becoming a priority in healthcare as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalizes the rules for participating in the Medicare Shared Savings program.  The focus on coordinated care is aimed at encouraging providers to create a patient-centered circle of care so that all providers, whether they are hospitals, specialty groups, ...

NextGate's roots are in providing technical services to our customers as that was our core business when the company was founded 7 years ago.  We've since added our MatchMetrix line of EMPI and registry products but still continue to provide outstanding service to customers with their EAI and EMPI implementations, whether they are using our MatchMetrix products or ...

An Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) has traditionally been a behind the scenes player in the overall healthcare IT landscape.  It receives ADT or other registration/admission/update messages from heterogeneous systems across the enterprise, looks for existing matching records, and where matches occur, indexes the records and merges them together to create the single best record (SBR).  Many EMPIs also support ...

At NextGate we spend a fair amount of time talking with customers and prospects about their challenges with managing patient records and as you would expect, we hear some different use cases from time to time.  Not every EMPI implementation is the standard initial load from 3 systems matching records to remove duplicates, and then receive updates and match records ...

We are a little belated in noting this, the GE press release is from last month, but Harrison Medical Center in Western Washington is using the  NextGate MatchMetrix EMPI as part of their GE eHealth Information Exchange.  As noted in yesterday's blog entry on the announcement with

We have added yet another partner to our fold with Orion Health selecting the MatchMetrix EMPI and Provider Registry to be used in their Health Information Exchange (HIE) offering.  Read the full release here. Orion becomes the latest of a growing number of partners that includes NextGen, Covisint, GE Healthcare, Axway, PatientKeeper, ...

NextGate is pleased to announce the availability of MatchMetrix 7.2.  While it is a minor release there are a number of new features our customers and partners will put to use right away.  Here is a sampling of a few of them. Like they say, a picture tells a thousand words, and to that end we’ve added a new dashboarding feature ...

After three fantastic days of meetings, demos, seeing old friends, and meeting new partners and customers, HIMSS11 has come to an end. We had participated at prior HIMSS with partners, but this was our first booth of our own and it was a great experience. We literally had 100s of visitors ...

The NextGate team spent today setting up our booth at HIMSS11 at the Orlando Convention Center.  This is our first year exhibiting on our own and it was fun, if not a bit time consuming, to get everything set up, but we are pleased with the result. If you are at HIMSS, be sure ...