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PHI behind the provider or HIE firewall while supporting population reporting.
hQuery integrates with certified EHR systems by leveraging their ability to generate
CCD or CCR patient summaries.
Certify, a health information exchange vendor based in San Jose, CA, has a
unique “appliance” called HealthDock™ that, like Medicity's grid, is aware of the
EHR with which it is co-located and can facilitate data exchange with it. The tech-
nology is claimed to go beyond that and to actually facilitate distributed query of
clinical data found in any EHR connected to a Certify HIE via a HealthDock.
While it's not really distributed query in the sense we've been discussing,
Greenway Medical Technologies, a major EHR vendor, offers an interesting
approach to clinical research across those practices that use its products. Through its
PrimeRESEARCH service clinical research organizations (CRO) or other clinical
researchers can find patients that match their study criteria from among the 50+
enrolled certified research sites. When a certified research site decides to enroll their
patients into a study, the clinical trial can be performed by directly documenting
data in the EHR and exporting it back to the CRO. The study can be managed
through the CTMS-Clinical Trials Management System within the Greenway appli-
cation suite.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently launched the
BioSense 2.0 program, an interesting example of nation-wide cloud-based informa-
tion aggregation, analysis and visualization of electronic health information from
federated systems in emergency departments and urgent care centers. The goal is to
track emerging health problems as they evolve. This could potentially include acts
of bioterrorism. The development team indicates it has plans to support data collec-
tion via both the CONNECT and DIRECT approaches to Health information
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http://projecthquery.org/
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http://mini-sentinel.org/
Accessed 19 July, 2012
Sentinel_v2.2_v1.0x.pdf
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http://projectpophealth.org/
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http://www.cdc.gov/biosense/index.html
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http://www.facebook.com/#!/CDCBioSenseProgram
Accessed 23 September, 2012
