As the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West, Intermountain employs more than 31,000 healthcare workers in a system comprised of 23 hospitals, a physician group with associated ambulatory clinics, and a health plans division serving residents of Utah and southeastern Idaho. Intermountain Healthcare also serves as a major referral center for six surrounding states.

Initiate Interoperable Health facilitates a comprehensive view of a patient or provider across time and clinical settings for use by healthcare applications and portals. The solution associates “same persons” across disparate health information systems. As part of Intermountain’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) for ECIS, Initiate’s solution will serve as a single-source registry for patients and providers.

Using this strategy, departmental systems interoperating with the new registry will yield improvements in longitudinal patient data integrity while lowering the operational costs of data synchronization found in former integration strategies that required multiple redundant master person index (MPI) copies.

“We wanted Initiate Interoperable Health at the foundation of our Enterprise Clinical Information System, not to simply replace our current EMPI functionality, but to take the concept of a single-source, interoperable registry service from the whiteboard to production,” said Marc Probst, CIO for Intermountain Healthcare.

The Initiate Interoperable Health solution helps healthcare organizations achieve objectives targeted at reducing medical errors: by improving access to patient information at all points of care; by increasing operational efficiencies by recognizing patients and providers across all points of registration; and, by lowering costs by reducing resources required for data governance and quality. Initiate’s proven solutions are in use today in more than 100 healthcare organizations worldwide - from hospitals, independent delivery networks (IDNs) and regional health information organizations (RHIOs) to payers, retail pharmacies and government health agencies.

“Intermountain is really tapping into the strength of Initiate’s technology,” said Lorraine Fernandes, vice president and industry ambassador for Initiate Systems. “Initiate Interoperable Health will facilitate the exchange and coordination of patient medical records and provider data across the enterprise clinical information system to help Intermountain deliver more patient-centered service.”

About Initiate Systems

Initiate Systems enables organizations to confidently share critical data assets. Multinational corporations, healthcare organizations and government agencies rely on Initiate® software and services to deliver complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems, domains or databases. Initiate’s multi-domain master data management (MDM) solutions facilitate interoperability, information sharing, entity resolution and data quality to increase revenues, reduce costs and mitigate risks. Initiate operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and in Toronto, London and Sydney. For more information, visit www.initiate.com.