Misys Healthcare Systems Enhances State Laboratory Reporting to Help Officials React Faster to Public Health Crisis
Misys Healthcare Systems, a leader in healthcare information technology, announced today Misys Laboratory-Disease Reporting Interface(TM), a new connectivity solution designed to transmit infectious disease data to state electronic laboratory reporting databases. The solution allows public health officials to track and predict communicable diseases and to react immediately to bioterrorism, chemical terrorism and other public health emergencies.
The New York State Department of Health, which collects patient data from several Misys New York-based clients, is among the first to activate the Misys interfacing solution to improve the transmission of infectious disease reporting to its state and local health departments.
“Misys Laboratory-Disease Reporting Interface, once installed at hospitals, increases the timeliness of communicable disease reporting,” said Kevin McDonald, product manager of interfacing at Misys Healthcare Systems. “The advanced technology benefits the public because health department officials can react quicker to specific disease outbreaks, which leads to improved care and a healthier patient population. Health officials also can follow up more closely on individual patients.”
For more than a century, state clinical laboratories have reported to state public health authorities the presence of certain diseases and conditions considered serious threats to public health. Most state health departments’ reporting systems are manual and use paper-based reporting methods.
The Misys interfacing connectivity solution aggregates reportable disease conditions from a hospital laboratory system and transmits the information in a single data set to a state department of health database. The data is then disseminated to statewide health departments and to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS). NEDSS is a public health initiative that provides a standards-based, integrated approach to disease surveillance. A primary goal of NEDSS is the ongoing, automatic capture and analysis of data already available electronically.
“Misys Laboratory-Disease Reporting Interface decreases the hospital lab’s manpower hours required to comply with state-level infectious disease reporting requirements,” said McDonald. “The solution’s decentralized architecture approach assures the data goes directly to the state health department versus a third-party data center.”
“This advanced technology demonstrates Misys’ vast data connectivity expertise,” he concluded. “Helping public health officials proactively monitor current outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Anthrax fulfills our mission of improving care on a broader scale.”
About Misys Healthcare Systems
Misys Healthcare Systems, one of the top five healthcare IT companies in North America, develops and supports reliable, easy-to-use software and services of exceptional quality that enable physicians and caregivers to more easily manage the complexities of healthcare. With 25 years of industry experience, Misys currently serves more than 92,000 physicians in 18,000 practice locations, 1,250 hospitals, 600 home care providers and hundreds of commercial laboratories, clinics, managed services and other related organizations. Misys’ family of leading clinical products and Web-based technologies – Misys Optimum(TM) solutions – are designed from the ground up to share patient data across all medical care settings. Misys Optimum connects community-based physicians and caregivers to the acute care enterprise, enabling increased efficiencies, better decision-making and improved hospital-physician relations. For more information, visit www.misyshealthcare.com .
About Misys plc
Misys plc, the global software products and solutions company, serves customers in the international banking and securities, international healthcare, and UK general insurance industries. Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Sesame, it also provides business process outsourcing services to independent financial advisors (IFAs) in the UK. Misys partners with its customers to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries, and employs over 6,000 people internationally. For more information, visit www.misys.com .
The Misys name, together with Misys Optimum and Misys Laboratory-Disease Reporting Interface, are trademarks of Misys plc.
