Across the United States, a growing number of healthcare leaders are engaged in creating Health Information Exchange (HIE) projects and Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs). Such health information-sharing networks can help improve the quality of health care by giving clinicians the information they need when they need it most to make better and more informed treatment decisions no matter where the data originated. Today’s advanced information system technology makes it possible to achieve the highest level of data interoperability and a high degree of security, protecting patient privacy and providing rapid access to patient-specific healthcare data at the point of care and across networks, hospital systems, and state lines.

• 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.