eHealth Technologies, the leading provider of image enabled HIE solutions and Baystate Health, one of the largest integrated healthcare systems in New England, are pleased to announce that users of the Pioneer Valley Information Exchange (PVIX) can now access diagnostic quality images for radiology exams that have been performed at six locations across western Massachusetts.
Imprivata Cortext is available to all members of the Pioneer Valley Information Exchange (PVIX), a regional HIE connecting patients and providers at each transition of care through a “one patient, one record” view across hospitals, medical practices, health insurance payers, laboratories, and other healthcare institutions throughout western Massachusetts and surrounding areas.
The Pioneer Valley Information Exchange (PVIX), a community HIE founded by Baystate Health, is fostering clinical collaboration throughout Massachusetts.Joel Vengco, CIO at Baystate Health, explains how implementation of HIE technology has helped PVIX members begin realizing their goal of accessing patient health data when and where they need it.
Get rolled into an emergency room while unconscious and your medical records, including blood type, the medications you are on, allergies and anything that happened when you visited a different emergency room the week prior, might be locked away in a computer system belonging to your doctor or another hospital and inaccessible to the doctors treating you.
InterSystems Corporation, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that Massachusetts-based Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health have selected InterSystems HealthShare® as their strategic informatics platform for an innovative, new regional health information exchange (HIE). Baycare Health Partners and Baystate Health have spearheaded the formation of the Pioneer Valley Health Information Exchange, or PVIX, which will rely on HealthShare to provide a “one patient, one record” view across hospitals, medical practices, health insurance payers, laboratories, and other healthcare institutions participating in Baycare’s Pioneer Valley Accountable Care organization (PVAC) and across the western Massachusetts region. PVIX will also serve as an onramp for the region to the Massachusetts statewide health information exchange.
