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ORACLE OFFERING FOR

HEALTH INFORMATION
EXCHANGE
Oracle Health Information Exchange is an offering by Oracle
Consulting to help healthcare organizations obtain a comprehensive
view of patients medical history by adopting the IHE Cross-
ORACLE EXPERT SERVICES Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) profile. IHEs XDS is a
standards-based approach that can handle the challenge of sharing
The ability to access health
information dispersed among clinical documents across the healthcare continuum. Oracle can
diverse organizations in order
to obtain a complete view of a work with you to deploy an XDS infrastructure running on Oracle
patients medical history is
technologies in your environment to support your e-health initiatives.
one of the main IT challenges
facing today's healthcare
industry
IHE Cross-Enterprise
Overview
Document Sharing Integration Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) http://www.ihe.net is a nonprofit
Profile is a health information
organization created by healthcare professionals and industry players with the
exchange approach that is
quickly gaining credibility objective of improving the way computer systems in healthcare share information.
worldwide because: IHE does not create standards but promotes the coordinated use of established
It is an incremental
standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of
approach that builds on
todays realities, while at optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with
the same time supporting one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use
the move from paper record
to pdf to structured information more effectively thanks to IHEs practices.
electronic documents
IHE focuses on many domains including radiology, cardiology, eye care, laboratory,
It allows the participation
of anyone, including private quality, patient care devices, IT infrastructure, and patient care coordination. IHE
GP systems, without the Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) comes under the IT infrastructure
need for complicated EMR
systems
domain and explains how a region-wide health information exchange infrastructure
It can be implemented can be achieved allowing multiple points of care to share clinical documents around
rapidly due to the simplicity a patient.
and pre-testing that is
guaranteed by IHEs IHE XDS is focused on providing a standards-based specification for managing the
processes (IHE
sharing of clinical documents between any healthcare enterprises, ranging from a
Connectathon)
private physician office to a clinic to an acute care in-patient facility. It facilitates
the secure registration, distribution, and access across health enterprises of patient
electronic health records.

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Figure 1: Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing

IHE profiles are already adopted globally in many countries such as the United
States, Canada, Denmark, Austria, and Japan. XDS has been adopted as a key
standard for medical documents interoperability by the U.S. Healthcare Information
Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).

About Oracle Health Information Exchange Solution

Oracle has combined its Healthcare Transaction Base repository, SOA technologies,
and services to demonstrate how it can support patient care using the XDS
Repository and Document Registry IHE infrastructure profiles.

Some key points regarding this solution:

Supports the sharing of clinical document interoperability between any-to-any

vendor irrespective of technology the vendors may be using

Allows a true patient-centric approach to patient care

Enables GPs or specialists to participate in the continuity of care process via a
simple portal Web access approach without needing to procure complex
systems

Based on open standards such as HL7 v2.x, HL7 v3, CDA, and using modern
technology approaches such as SOA and Web services for future-proofing the
infrastructure
Ability to run analysis on clinical documents such as population health analysis

Supports the federated, hybrid, and centralized deployment architectures

allowing customers to pick the one that best matches their practical realities

Based on proven technologies from a leading global vendor with a local

development team that is committed to healthcare

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ORACLE CONSULTING PDQ Query--

DIFFERENTIATORS (have Demographics, Register New Patient--

Local MRN Feed (HL7 2.5)
get RHIOMRN)
RHIO
10 Infrastructure 1
Oracle expertise in
GP
delivering best practices System
Patient
using standardized
GP Clinic Identity
methodology, process, tools, Mgr

and resources 5 Register

PIX New Patient
Query
Breadth of services for 6 EMR
2 (Document Source)
your needs to integrate ATNA
CT
Time
Audit Server 3
functional, technical, and Server RHIOMRN
Feed(HL7 2.5)
change management Publish CCD

services necessary for 7 Hospital

EMR
Get Cluster
optimal user adoption Document XDS 4
(Document Source) List
Document B
Register Document
Publish CCD Registry
Aligned with your goals
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with a cost-effective and
8 XDS
comprehensive upgrade Hospital Document
HTTPget Document (Document Consumer) Repository
solution resulting in project Cluster A
success
Figure 2: Interactions between Document Creators, Consumers, and IHE XDS
Infrastructure
RELATED PRODUCTS: The figure above shows an example of a workflow interaction for sharing of medical
Oracle Healthcare
documents between two hospitals and a GP clinic.
Transaction Base
Oracle 10g Application
Scope of the Offering
Server
Oracle 10g Database Oracle Consulting can offer a range of services related to implementing Oracle
Oracle SOA Suite Healthcare Information Exchange based on IHE XDS, including:

1. Install and configure XDS Document Repository, XDS Document

Registry, and Document Viewer Portal

2. Provide education on IHE XDS integration profile, provide sample code,

sample XML documents, sample stylesheet, and the XDS test kit

3. Provide advice on modifying existing systems to support IHE XDS

4. Work with our partners to include value adds like PHR and others

Getting Started
For more information about Oracles solution for Health Information Exchange,
please contact Steve Jepsen at stephen.jepsen@oracle.com

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