A growing number of organizations are interested in developing health information exchange. They include state and federal governments and agencies, hospitals, reference labs, regional health information organizations (RHIOs), and integrated delivery networks (IDNs). These entities seek to exchange data electronically in order to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Healthcare information exchange is more than simply transmitting patient data electronically. It involves business processes that capture, translate, and transmit the data in such a way to minimize patient risk and healthcare costs. This can only be accomplished if the data are accessible, reliable, and accurate.
3M’s technology makes it possible to achieve both the highest level of data interoperability and a high degree of security. As a result, organizations can protect patient privacy while allowing rapid access to patient-specific healthcare data at the point of care and across networks, hospital systems, and geographic boundaries.
How 3M helps
- 3M™ Enterprise Master Person Index — A database at the core of a comprehensive health enterprise management system that links all acute and ambulatory data to provide at a glance a complete medical record with both demographic and encounter data from across the care continuum.
- 3M™ Healthcare Data Dictionary — A specialized database that enables the translation and integration of healthcare data, resulting in a road map to the content and structure of patient data, as well as standard definitions of all data elements and healthcare concepts within an electronic patient record.
- 3M™ Clinical Data Repository — Integrates patient data into a central database of individual lifetime patient records for access and clinical analysis, reducing risk, saving time, and improving clinical decisions through centralized access to a patient's lifetime medical record at the point of care.
- 3M™ Terminology Consulting Services — Offer organizations a comprehensive program of terminology analysis, implementation, and data mapping services, delivered by seasoned medical informaticists with more than 20 years of experience in data dictionary development.
For more information about how Care Innovation, 3M's HIE business, fosters data exchange across multiple networks, see the following materials:
