At Hunterdon Healthcare, HealthShare Patient Index Helps Deliver a Unified View of Patient Care
At Hunterdon Healthcare, HealthShare Patient Index Helps Deliver a Unified View of Patient Care
4 PagesHunterdon Healthcare + InterSystems At Hunterdon Healthcare, HealthShare Patient Index Helps Deliver a Unified View of Patient Care Like other healthcare organizations running on best-of-breed IT systems, Hunterdon Healthcare, a 178-bed teaching hospital in central New Jersey, ran into some issues. The IT systems include an electronic medical record (EMR) and about 100 other applications. Hunterdon uses an integration engine and a unique patient identifier from the hospital registration application to enable data sharing among inpatient systems, and to keep them synchronized. However, the health system’s 60-plus owned and affiliated ambulatory facilities use a different clinical EMR with different patient identifiers. Through time, changes in contact information, missing info
