Highlights
- Health Information Exchange will facilitate care coordination, collaboration and team-based care.
- Harris' Direct Secure Messaging Services enables participants to securely send encrypted health information over the Internet.
- Harris is leveraging its experience building Florida's exchange and numerous large-scale government and commercial healthcare technology projects.
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has implemented CareAccord, Oregon's statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). CareAccord, which is administered by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), will enhance communications among Oregon healthcare providers, reduce duplicate orders, smooth transitions in care and support fulfillment of meaningful use requirements.
CareAccord launched with Harris' Direct Secure Messaging, a secure, point-to-point messaging system that enables registered providers to exchange information, including attachments containing patient data, using any device with Internet access.
Harris Direct Secure Messaging ensures secure delivery and receipt of messages, while providing the audit functions needed to share clinical information. It leverages a provider directory to connect users with other registered organizations and providers – minimizing duplication of care and enhancing care coordination and collaboration.
"CareAccord represents a win-win for both patients and providers," said Carol Robinson, Oregon State Coordinator, Health Information Technology, OHA. "Providers will have the capacity to share vital medical history with specialists, labs and emergency departments. Patients will benefit from primary care physicians and specialists who can now exchange medical information electronically prior to scheduled appointments, improving patient safety and expanding the time patients have with their providers."
OHA contracted with Harris Healthcare Solutions after receiving federal funding to plan and implement statewide HIE services through the ONC State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program. In a competitive bidding process that involved seven HIE vendors, OHA selected Harris because of its expertise in building state HIEs and enterprise level systems for commercial and government customers, including the Florida HIE, Department of Veterans Affairs, ONC and Health First.
"Harris enables CareAccord providers across Oregon to securely share patient information, to make it available when and where it is needed, and to deliver the best possible care to patients," said Jim Traficant, president, Harris Healthcare Solutions.
A nationally recognized leader in healthcare IT integration, Harris offers a full range of interoperability solutions, including IT infrastructure and management, clinical workflow and analytics, health information exchange, and imaging. Harris solutions improve healthcare quality, safety, efficiency, cost and outcomes by ensuring that the right information travels, with security and privacy, to the right person, at the right time, on the right device, at the point of care.
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and about 17,000 employees — including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at www.harris.com.
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