Cascade Healthcare Community goes live with Accenx Exchange solution

Nov 23 2009

Accenx™, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in data management solutions for information sharing and improved data quality, announced today its integration of Cascade Healthcare Community’s enterprise clinical information systems is now live. The new system distributes laboratory results to community clinics and regional hospitals, using Accenx Exchange™ – a rapid and cost-effective information exchange platform.

Cascade is a prominent regional health system with headquarters in Bend, Oregon.

“We chose Accenx to help because from our past experience, we knew the Accenx Exchange solution would provide a quick and cost-effective exchange platform to distribute various laboratory results through our new clinical system,” said Bill Winnenberg, CIO of Cascade Healthcare Community.

The laboratory information exchange includes the ability to: distribute results to physician offices, clinics and regional hospitals; have a bi-directional interface to PAML reference laboratory; distribute printed reports and labels for PAML reference laboratory; and electronically send reportable results to the Oregon Department of Health. The Accenx Exchange also provides Cascade with a Results Viewer, which integrates with the third-party physician portal. This allows physicians viewing a current patient result in the third-party portal to single-click to link to Accenx’ Results Viewer and be presented with the patient’s history and trending. Accenx also facilitates a quicker, more user-friendly implementation through its MDS Compendium Manager solution, which translates test codes into local hospital lab systems and physician practice EMR values.

“As Central Oregon’s sole health-delivery system, we realize how imperative it is for Cascade to facilitate the sharing of health information; ensuring that patient information is where it needs to be, when it is needed,” said David Cheng, CTO of Initiate Healthcare and former CEO of Accenx. “We are happy to be a part of the effort to help Cascade improve the region’s healthcare delivery services.”