(Source: MARKETWIRE)
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and the Austrian software company Tiani Spirit
today announced the availability in Europe of the Cisco(R) Medical
Data Exchange Solution (MDES), which is intended to help health care
providers to access patient data(1) with a high degree of security
regardless of the provider's location or IT system. MDES combines
Cisco's Application Extension Platform and Integrated Services Router
(ISR) with Tiani Spirit's Electronic Health Record management
software, enabling the network to be the platform for sharing and
exchanging medical information and records.
Patients often receive care at numerous facilities, and individual
medical records consequently reside at multiple locations. Exchanging
medical data between health care facilities is challenging and
expensive, particularly because of incompatible IT systems and data
formats. By incorporating a patient index and a health care record
translation function into the network, MDES is designed to allow
information to be viewed with a high degree of security from anywhere
on the health care network, irrespective of the IT system or data
format of the record.
Cisco MDES addresses the following information-access challenges that
health care providers face today:
Improving communication between health care professionals by
providing access to records and patient information irrespective of
their location on the health care network; Enhancing the quality of
care by providing health care professionals with a comprehensive view
of patients' medical history before diagnosis and treatment;
Deploying, scaling across large environments and gradually
integrating systems. Unlike other solutions, MDES does not need a
centralized data center or database for the information, making this
task much easier. It also means that patient data is not copied to a
central system but accessed remotely using local systems.
Facts/Highlights:
Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen hospital in Austria uses Cisco MDES to
improve physician and patient satisfaction and lower operating costs.
Following the merger of the Wels and Grieskirchen hospitals it was
important that information could be shared in real time between
health care facilities (for example, nursing homes), but integrating
the IT systems from the two hospitals was difficult.
