Governance consulting services and development

Misys Open Source Solutions has reached an agreement with Allscripts and Hartford HealthCare to provide governance consulting services and development for the technology infrastructure that will provide the newly formed Transforming Healthcare in Connecticut Communities (THICC) -- a coalition of Connecticut’s major hospitals, healthcare facilities and physician practices – with interconnected, on-demand access to patient information. Scheduled for production release in early 2010, Misys will deliver the nation’s largest open source health exchange and the state’s first health information exchange. THICC will improve healthcare delivery through secure, authorized and electronic patient information sharing. Using an open source, standards-based approach is expected to help promote interoperability between THICC, participating healthcare facilities and physicians who may be using disparate electronic health record systems, so that documents may be shared between THICC members and others participating in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) – a technology architecture that is part of President Obama’s goal to create a system of digital medical records by 2014 or earlier. (Stephan O’Neill, Vice President, Information Services, Hartford HealthCare.)