Bernie Monegain of Healthcare IT News reports:
The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, which includes 24 hospitals in northern Louisiana, is going live today on an integrated open systems platform that will enable teleconsultation among the hospitals.
[…]
The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure access to a portal-based view of patient-centric data housed in disparate applications across multiple hospitals.
Fusion from Carefx provides the platform, architecture and aggregate view of real-time patient data. IBM Websphere provides the portal framework, while user authentication and single sign-on, policy-based authorization, identity federation and auditing of access is provided by CA. The architecture and data flow among the four technology partners, which ensures accurate patient identification based on an enterprise master person index, is supplied by Initiate Systems.
Full story – Healthcare IT News