Axolotl has the most live HIE clients in acute-to-acute space, KLAS reports

Feb 22 2010

Axolotl Corp. was identified as one of the early leading Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution providers with a fast-growing client base in the new KLAS report “Health Information Exchanges: The Reality of HIE Adoption.”

“We are connected to 25 different EMR vendors and about 60 versions. If a facility has an EMR, we put together a connection and electronically send the results to the EMR.”

KLAS, a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of health care vendors, published this report to provide further insight on the creation of HIEs and the very few technology vendors who have risen to the challenge to claim a proven, repeatable model.

For this report, KLAS confirmed that Axolotl has the most live HIE clients in the acute-to-acute space, where two or more non-affiliated hospitals or health systems are sharing patient data with authorized physicians and health care professionals in the region. Hospital clients reported that “implementation of Axolotl’s solution has been relatively easy”; Axolotl’s “implementation teams are experienced and have expertise in setting up the requisite interfaces to participating EMR systems”; “Axolotl’s solution is straightforward… yet robust in that it delivers data feeds from multiple sources, whether radiology results, lab tests, or allergy alerts.” One of the hospital executives interviewed conveyed “We are connected to 25 different EMR vendors and about 60 versions. If a facility has an EMR, we put together a connection and electronically send the results to the EMR.”

Axolotl was the only vendor to have sufficient quantities of customers in both categories that KLAS evaluated to get ratings in each. These categories are acute to acute, as described above, and acute to ambulatory, which is for hospitals and health systems to connect and exchange data with their affiliated physicians.

Jason Hess, General Manager of Clinical Research for KLAS and author of the report said “In speaking with Axolotl’s customers, I heard several indicate that Axolotl has really been excellent to work with, and they would recommend them.”

The study cites that the primary reasons customers mentioned for selecting Axolotl included:

• Ability to use federated and hybrid technology models with or without a central repository.
• Clinical data can be accessed by physicians and clinicians both through portals and via delivery directly into their EMR systems via interfaces.
• Ability for physicians and clinicians to view data from multiple sources in a basic manner.
• Remote report-distribution functionality and customizable workflows.
• Breadth and depth of HIE experience.
• Account management and executive involvement, which aid in smooth contracting and implementations.

“This recognition by KLAS validates Axolotl’s leading HIE position built over the past fifteen years,” said Glenn Keet, President of Axolotl. “Our continued success is grounded by our wealth of experience in deploying the most advanced HIEs, together with our capabilities to exceed customer requirements.”

Axolotl’s sophisticated suite of SaaS solutions are powering 3 statewide HIEs, 18 RHIOs and hundreds of hospitals — touching the lives of more than 25 million patients.

To learn more about the health information exchange market, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of participating vendors, the report “Health Information Exchanges: The Reality of HIE Adoption” is available at www.KLASresearch.com/reports