The future of HIT suggests that all healthcare entities, public or private, will soon have integrated IT infrastructures, allowing access by healthcare providers when and where it’s needed. Integration at this level has vast technology implications. The eHealth Architecture ensures integration capability at the level that your organization needs it.
Organization integration
The first step to achieving NHIN level integration is realizing integration within your own healthcare organization. By hosting your eHealth applications with Netgain, your IT infrastructure will be optimized for integration of ePHI across your entire organization, and will thus prepare you for the integration with the NHIN.
By having integrated systems across your organization, duplicate records at multiple clinic sites will be eliminated, saving your organization and patients valuable time and energy.
NHIN integration
Integration with the NHIN will involve technology implications that need to be configured and secured by specialists. From exchanging and transmitting to encrypting and decoding, the effects of the NHIN will be significant to your IT network, and you best be prepared for it. Netgain is well versed on the standards and requirements that are involved in the NHIN integration, and is ready to help your organization enter the 21st Century of eHealth.