“OhioHealth is routinely recognized for clinical excellence and innovation, and maintaining this leadership position requires the near-constant upgrading of applications and implementation of new information systems,” said Mrunal Shah, MD, ABFM, vice president of Physician Technology and OhioHealth Information Services. “We’ve been a long-standing customer of Accenx, and the option of hosting Initiate Patient with them allowed us to implement the solution sooner. The Accenx team will focus on integrating our applications rather than spending time on the mechanics of installing new hardware and software in our environment.”

Initiate Patient is used as an enterprise master person index (EMPI) for healthcare organizations and government agencies to transform critical business processes by delivering higher quality information to them. Initiate Patient delivers a comprehensive, single view of patients to end-users in real time at the point of care.

“The combination of Initiate’s award winning interoperable health software and Accenx’s core competency of delivering solutions over the internet provides hospitals and health systems with a unique interoperable health deployment alternative,” said Sean Cassidy, vice president, products for Initiate Systems. “Hosting Initiate Patient through Accenx offers customers faster time to value and reduced total cost of ownership.”

“Accenx’ core business is enabling interoperability and health information exchange for our customers. Unique identification of patients across the healthcare eco-system using different patient identifiers is a recurring need,” said R. Scott Harper, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Accenx. “Partnering with Initiate Systems to deliver remote hosting of Initiate Patient is a natural extension of our own SaaS solutions and provides customers with a valuable mechanism to conserve scarce capital and information technology resources.”

The hosted Initiate Patient offering is available through either Initiate Systems or Accenx. Healthcare organizations interested in the joint solution can contact either organization for more information.

Visit Accenx, at booth 1410, and Initiate Systems, at booth 2048, while at HIMSS09, April 4-8 in Chicago.

About Initiate Systems:
Initiate Systems, Inc. enables organizations to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Its master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide organizations with complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems or databases, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of their data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and Toronto, London and Sydney. For more information, visit www.InitiateSystems.com.

About Accenx:
AccenxTM is a leading provider of health information exchange and interoperability solutions, with more than 150 customers and the largest dedicated team of integration specialists in the industry. Our solutions allow hospitals, physician practices, and other participants in the healthcare community to quickly connect and seamlessly share information to improve patient care, reduce administrative costs, and create a high-quality experience for both patients and providers. With Accenx, hospitals have both a trusted partner who will share the risk of the project, and a superior solution that maximizes physician adoption to accelerate benefits to the hospital. Accenx customers include BayCare Health System, Baystate Health, Cascade Healthcare Community, and Cleveland Clinic Health System, MemorialCare Medical Centers, OhioHealth. Accenx corporate headquarters are located in Irvine, California. For more information, visit www.accenx.com.