For several years, NextGate has been participating at the IHE Connectathons to validate interoperability with other vendors products across several different standards related to EMPIs such as PIX/PDQ, and XCPD and ATNA logging.  This year is no different and we will be in Chicago for the IHE North American Connectathon 2012 next week.

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 come by the booth from folks that knew nothing about us or even EMPIs to organizations looking to implement an HIE to customers that have implemented MatchMetrix and are in production managing millions of unique patient records to provide a single patient view enabling better and more cost efficient care.

Our booth giveaway was a red stress cube, a refreshing change from the traditional stress ball, and they were a hit as we ran out the afternoon of the last day. Everyone that stopped by was also entered to win a Visa Gift Card, those that got a demo gaining an extra entry.  The winner of the gift card will be selected shortly and subscribe to our newsletter to  learn who wins.

Gevik, Kevin, Dan, and Andy were busy giving demos of our matching technology and rich user interface for data stewards to manage the EMPI and Provider Registries.  This included showing all the new features we’ve developed over the past few months including dashboards to quickly see the health and status of the EMPI or registry, the ability to include pictures, images of IDs, and automatically generated QR codes, and our Relationship Registry which ties together the EMPI, Provider, and Location Registries to give a complete view of the circle of care.

We were also present in the IHE Interoperability Showcase where we were connected and interoperating through PIX/PDQ with many of the same vendors we were during the IHE Connectathon held last month in Chicago.

With the completion of the event, our work was not done and we had to tear down the booth and pack it up to be sent back home. This was a new booth for us and it worked great and you can expect to see us use it again at HIMSS12 or other events.

Thanks to all that attended and stopped by.  If you didn’t attend or weren’t able to stop by, please visit our HIMSS page where all the resources we had at the booth are available for download, and if you’d like to use MatchMetrix yourself, register for our online EMPI demo!

See you next year at HIMSS12!

The new year got off to a quick start for NextGate as we participated in the IHE Connectathon 2011 in Chicago in mid-January.  As anyone that has participated can attest, it can be a hectic and trying time as you scramble to send and receive messages and otherwise interoperate with hundreds of of systems and vendors.  But it can also be rewarding when you validate that the standards support you’ve implemented does indeed work and your customers will benefit from it.

This year our testing focused on the Patient Identifier Cross Reference (PIX) and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) series of tests and MatchMetrix EMPI successfully passed 55 tests against 20 different vendors across the IHE uses cases, including those employing HL7 version 3.

If you are attending HIMSS11 in Orlando in a few weeks, stop by the IHE Interoperability Showcase in Hall E, Orange section, Station 22, where MatchMetrix will be running.  Or stop by booth #738 in Hall A&B and visit our main booth.

We published volume 3 of our newsletter, NextGate News, last week and it went out to our mailing list, but for those that didn’t get it that would like to, you can view it here.  It includes updates on our latest releases, replays of our fall webinar series, testimonials from our customers, and information on upcoming events like the IHE Connectathon and HIMSS11.

There is also a link to this newsletter on our Resources page on the web-site.

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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) organizes Connectathons on a regular basis for vendors of healthcare IT to come together to test their products to ensure they are interoperable according to the defined integration profiles.  Back in April, NextGate successfully used MatchMetrix to demonstrate Patient Identifier Cross Reference (PIX) and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) standard interoperability across all IHE use cases.

This means that healthcare organizations using MatchMetrix can be confident that they can invoke PIX/PDQ as a means to cross-reference patient identifiers between hospitals, care sites, Health Information Exchanges (HIE), and more, as well as query a central patient information server and retrieve a patient’s demographic and visit information.

Once interoperability is demonstrated, an IHE Integration Statement may be published which is available on our IHE Compliance page or directly here.  Additionally, the IHE has created the IHE Product Registry as a way for users to search for products supporting IHE Profiles with published IHE Integration Statements.

We are pleased to announce that MatchMetrix is now in the IHE Product Registry.  There are several ways you can find us there, the easiest being to search on company NextGate, but you can also search on the ATNA, CT, PIX, or PDQ profiles within the IT-infrastructure domain and we show up there too.  Go take a look!