Enhance quality of care through simple, secure information exchange

As the healthcare industry enters an era of change, you will be faced with many choices.

Whether you are a healthcare provider, health information exchange or technology vendor, you will be making decisions concerning the investments you’ll need to make. Investments that not only impact your future, but enhance the quality of care your facility delivers, how you share information with other healthcare organizations and how you respond to the challenge—and opportunities—of this era of meaningful use.

Improving how our nation’s healthcare organizations communicate is a critical step in successfully reforming its healthcare system. Fortunately, a proven infrastructure already exists – and we’re ready to put it to work for you today.

Nationwide health information exchange exists today with VisionShare

VisionShare® is one of the nation’s largest and most secure health information networks for administrative transactions. And now, we’re enhancing the support of clinical transactions on our Secure Exchange Platform by providing an access gateway to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), as well as to state- and community-based Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). With VisionShare, you have a proven platform to support all your current and future administrative and clinical information exchange needs.

VisionShare clinical data exchange services allow existing customers and other stakeholders to quickly realize the benefits of an interoperable healthcare community. Information may be simply and securely shared to promote improvements in:

• Quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery
• Care coordination
• Population and public health reporting
• Privacy and security protections

VisionShare Secure Exchange provides both user and computer interfaces that enable seamless integration into the existing applications and workflows at hospitals, clinics, physician offices, and health insurance payers nationwide.

Supporting meaningful use

Today over half the hospitals in the nation and thousands of facilities securely connect using VisionShare® Secure Exchange. With our strong footing in administrative transactions – and expanded support for clinical transactions – VisionShare offers the ability to support the following information exchange requirements, which are expected to be included in the forthcoming definition of meaningful use as stipulated under the HITECH ACT:

• Administrative transactions (claims and eligibility transactions)
• Clinical exchanges between providers, such as test results and medical histories
• Public health reports, such as immunization records and bio-surveillance data

Given these capabilities, providers who are connected to VisionShare Secure Exchange will be well positioned to meet the eventual meaningful use criteria required to receive HIT-related financial stimulus payments under the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

Of course, the meaningful use requirements could—and likely will—change over time. Fortunately, VisionShare Secure Exchange is based on a flexible architecture designed to quickly adapt to new requirements as they evolve and impact your future.

In addition, VisionShare Secure Exchange currently meets all of the security requirements recommended as standards for the meaningful exchange of health information.

Helping state, community and private HIEs

The VisionShare Secure Exchange Platform may be leveraged by state, community, and private HIE initiatives to:

• Quickly drive adoption by leveraging the scale and scope of the VisionShare 11,000 node network
• Meet specific transactional or functional needs by implementing some or all of the VisionShare Secure Exchange Platform elements
• Efficiently onboard and manage your provider community by utilizing the VisionShare online, self-service trading partner management system

Enabling health information technology partners

VisionShare Secure Exchange Platform was developed around HIT standards to provide flexible on ramps for systems integration. In doing so, the Platform enables electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), and practice management system (PMS) vendors to integrate the VisionShare core suite of services directly into their software. (Learn more.) In addition, VisionShare allows technology vendors to build and deploy applications, as well as gain access to the network’s installed footprint.

Working with our existing and future technology partners, VisionShare will ensure through open programming interfaces that healthcare providers enjoy a seamless connection into the NHIN and other standards-based health information exchanges without disrupting providers’ workflows.

Proven technology

The cornerstone of healthcare transformation is the ability to easily and securely share information among all designated healthcare information benefactors. Safe, efficient health information exchange can't succeed without secure, affordable connections.

More than 11,000 healthcare facilities rely on VisionShare. You should be next.