Interoperability Success Story: Anne Arundel Medical Center

Wed, 5/7/2014 - 9:46amChad Johnson0 Comments var addthis_config = {ui_click: true,data_track_clickback: true,data_ga_social: true,data_ga_property: UA-317164-6}; In this Interoperability Success story featuring Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC), we’ll highlight how the organization successfully connected the hospital’s main Epic system to the athenahealth system shared by their 49 separate, affiliated ambulatory physician offices. Creating a connected health system directly supports AAMC’s strategic plan, titled AAMC’s Vision 2020, which includes building a “System of Care” where the local physician offices, ambulatory healthcare providers, and the community are closely aligned to provide a coordinated and cost-effective approach to improving patient care. The AAMC Interface Team had to overcome many challenges to build a modern, connected health system, including patient and provider identification and filtering out specific HL7 message types from connected, yet unaffiliated physician groups.  We spoke with Jay Marquez, an Integration Analyst at AAMC. Some key AAMC facts about this project: AAMC-affiliated ambulatory physician offices use athenahealth’s practice management system for scheduling, registration, and billing. They use the hospital’s Epic EMR for clinical documentation and orders.  The athenahealth system uses a single, networked server to interface with the hospital’s Epic system. There are 49 different ambulatory p...
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