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Product Demos

  • Fusionfx is a scalable and interoperable workflow platform that aggregates disparate data from silos across the enterprise to create patient-centered, contextually relevant views of patient data. Fusionfx doesn’t care where the data resides--if a clinician needs it and has the clearance to access it, he or she gets it—quickly, simply, wherever it is needed, in a format that makes sense for what he or she is doing.
     
    The following demonstration provides a view into the power of Fusionfx.  Enjoy.

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  • Fusionfx Referral Management transforms the onerous, bureaucratic, paper-shuffling referral process into a disciplined workflow that facilitates and standardizes collaboration, improves patient care quality and safety and increases referral volume and revenues.

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  • The Fusionfx BI Throughput dashboard helps identify and alleviate operational bottlenecks within your hospital inpatient units and Emergency Department, resulting in increased census, operational efficiency and revenue for your organization.

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  • The Fusionfx BI Quality Suite Dashboards are comprised of Core Measures, Mortality and Patient Experience dashboards that enable your organization to identify and solve challenges in clinical care, operations, and patient experience, driving quality improvement throughout your organization.

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Case Studies

Boston Medical Center, named one of America’s Best Hospital’s by U.S. News and World Report, turbocharged its revenues thanks to referral volume increases generated through Carefx’s eReferral, a portal-based referral management solution that allows hospitals, IDNs and HIEs to create a streamlined, patient-centric and accountable process for tracking referrals.

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Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) utilized Fusionfx in it's "DirectConnect" clinical workstation project, an initiative started in early 2007 to provide role-based, integrated access to clinical data. Their story will be of interest to CIOs, CMIOs and CTOs looking to implement an interoperable, browser-accessible clinical workflow solution.

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At the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC), clinicians have access to a multidisciplinary view of a cancer patient’s record. Following a speedy 90-day installation, Fusionfx changes the lives of cancer patients and boosts clinician efficiency and productivity.

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Children’s Medical Center, Dallas uses Fusionfx to provide physicians with immediate access to patient information at the point of care wherever and whenever needed.

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At Legacy Health System, Fusionfx streamlined the process of getting a complete view into a patient’s medical record. It now takes seconds instead of minutes.

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Customer Videos

Christy Kindler, CIO, University Community Health

The CIOs role in a Community Hospital and how ARRA has affected it.

Dan Newman, MD, CMIO, Boston Medical Center

Explains the role of a CIO versus a CMIO.

Don York, Director, IT, Cancer Therapy & Research Center

Explains his role as IT director at Cancer Therapy and Research Center.

Brigitte Shaw, CEO, Pepin Heart Hospital & Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute

Discusses the importance of physician alignment and delivering real-time clinical information to care providers.

Joel Vengco, Chief Application Architect and Director, Boston Medical Center

Discusses community information exchanges.

David Miller, Chief Security Officer, Covisint

Discusses the current issues and challenges facing health information exchanges.

Tom Stevenson, MD, CMIO, Covisint

Discusses his focus on interoperability as the CMIO for Covisint.

Jerry Ambrosh, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Vangent

Discusses 2009 contract with the Department of Defense.

Jennifer Covich Bordenick, CEO, eHealth Initiative

Discusses critical issues facing healthcare organizations.

Lynne Dunbrack, Program Director, IDC Health Insights

Discusses the "readiness" of hospital in respect to ARRA.

Marc Holland, CEO, System Research Services

On interoperability and the view of the "whole" patient.

Webinars

Cleveland Clinic Leverages Business Intelligence to Accelerate Performance Improvement

Healthcare organizations possess a wealth of untapped strategic information in their transaction systems. Cleveland Clinic has applied Business Intelligence (BI) technology in a meaningful and intuitive manner to unlock transaction information to accelerate financial, operational, and clinical performance improvement. In this session, Cleveland Clinic, one of the largest providers in the U.S., will lay out specific steps that it took to leverage BI technology to achieve strategic objectives and positive organizational change.

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Automating Boston Medical Center's Referral Process: Bottom-line Benefits and Community Integration

Joel L. Vengco, BMC's Chief Applications Architect & Director, Boston Medical Center details how BMC facilitated community information exchange by addressing HIE standards related to interoperability, usability, collaboration and enhanced quality of care, as well as how re-engineering the referral management process boosted efficiency, care coordination and patient tracking. He documents BMC's successful expansion of electronic referral management to all departments, along with BMC's plans for internal consultations and enhanced communications between BMC departments and non-network providers. Significant financial gains can be achieved through HIE-based electronic referral systems that increase referral volume through integration and collaboration.

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Creating Multidisciplinary Views of the Patient Using Integrated Identity and Access Management

Don York, Director of IT, Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CRTC), The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC), San Antonio. Clinicians were previously faced with multiple user IDs and passwords, redundant patient queries and ongoing struggles to efficiently access data. Don explains how they were able to enhance care delivery, increase productivity and maximize system investments by providing caregivers with secure, expedient access to a multidisciplinary view of patient information with an integrated Identity & Access Management solution. He also describes the projects' keys to success, including conducting a thorough analysis of clinical workflows to deliver the optimal end-user experience to clinicians who handle more than 120,000 cancer patient visits a year.

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Improving Quality of Care by Streamlining Access to The Right Information at the Right Time

Chuck Podesta, SVP/Chief Information Officer and John McConnell, Senior Web Developer from Fletcher Allen Health Care share the strategy and execution of PRISM - Fletcher Allen's Patient Record Information Management System, and how contextually aligning data across all systems delivered the critical interoperability needed to fully realize the vision of a complete, electronic patient record. They describe the process used to gain "buy-in" from physicians, clinical staff, administration, and other stakeholders, the technology infrastructure used, lessons learned, and the results to-date.

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Turn Your Physician Referral Process into a Cash Flow Engine

Joel Vengco, Executive Director of Clinical Information Systems at Boston Medical Center describes the strategy, design, deployment, and business impact of BMC’s recently implemented eReferral solution, a key component of their community information exchange (CIE) vision.

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Ensuring Workflow Controls Technology, Not the Reverse

Allen Roeseler, Group Manager, Advanced Systems from Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas demonstrates how Fusionfx has optimized clinical workflow and boosted physician adoption of existing clinical applications.

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Aggregating Patient Data to Deliver a Single, Unified Patient Record to Physicians within a Clinical Portal

Pete Mardesich, Senior Business Analyst, and Josh Levine, Technologist, from Legacy Health System (Portland, Oregon) demonstrate Legacy’s physician portal, which uses Fusionfx to aggregate data from disparate applications including Cerner PowerChart Office, GE Muse, Fuji PACS and IDX (GE Healthcare) LastWord.

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Whitepapers

  • Patient Portals: The Pathway to Patient Engagement

    A growing number of healthcare organizations have come to rely on patient portals - not only to meet the short-term obligations of meaningful use, but also to pave the way for a future dominated by collaborative care, patient engagement and accountable care. With insights from Carefx professionals and other industry experts, this white paper offers healthcare organizations practical, step-by-step guidance on how to design and manage a patient portal that meets the evolving needs of patients, clinicians and care coordinators. It explains how HCOs can experience the rich benefits of patient portals-from enhanced physician integration to greater involvement by patients and families in managing their own care.

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  • High Performance Healthcare: Gateway to Accountable Care

    This white paper outlines the rationale and benefits of high-performance healthcare, as well as its essential characteristics - from a single source of truth, strategy alignment and patient engagement, to accessibility, action, transparency and accountability.

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  • Performance Management: Enterprise Performance Improvement through Business Intelligence Dashboards

    This issue brief outlines five key BI differentiators and offers providers multiple lessons learned and practical strategies for implementation, including alignment with mission, C-suite involvement, realistic expectations, integration with meaningful use and focus on process improvement.

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  • Harris and Carefx: Forging a New Pathway toward High Performance Healthcare

    Harris Corporation, an international leader in integrated network and information technology solutions acquired Carefx. This paper describes the distinctive advantages of Harris and Carefx and how the two companies' shared vision will generate clinical, operational and financial performance gains for providers, health information exchanges, government agencies and other healthcare stakeholders.

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  • Health Information Exchange: From Meaningful Use to Healthcare Transformation

    In this Carefx Position Paper, you'll learn how providers improve patient care through medication reconciliation and quality measurement and reporting, and how electronic referral management enhances clinical collaboration, care coordination and providers' bottom lines.

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  • Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange: The Impact of Smarter Healthcare

    This IDC Health Insights white paper, sponsored by IBM, presents the findings of in-depth interviews conducted with senior executives at LARHIX and a clinician at LSUHSC-S. The objectives were to gain insights into the industry transformation surrounding a smarter healthcare culture; and the clinical benefits and business value that can be derived from implementing a smarter healthcare strategy.

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  • Electronic Referral Management: Bottom-line Benefits and Quality Gains

    Effectively used, electronic referral management provides an alternative to the cumbersome, bureaucratic, paper-based referral process that has plagued physician practices, hospitals and health systems for decades. Only through e-referral can healthcare organizations improve information exchange, enhance patient care continuity and end the costly, time-consuming and error-prone chore of faxing, photocopying and filing paper referral documents.

    In this issue brief, you'll learn how high-profile organizations such as Boston Medical Center (BMC) are using Carefx's eReferral solution to build "a sustainable referral network" and facilitate secure health information exchange between primary care providers, physician specialists and a network of community health centers (CHCs).

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  • The Changing Role of the Healthcare CIO: From Technologist to Strategist

    Six experts in health information technology provide candid insight into the role of the CIO in terms of credibility, responsibilities, change management, interaction with providers and the C-suite, business value, and return on investment (ROI).

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  • The Changing Role of the Healthcare CIO: Expanded Responsibilities in an Era of Economic Constraints (Part 2)

    Featured within this white paper are CIO/CMIO luminaries who offer unique insights on the changing role of the CIO with special emphasis on the CIO/CMIO as a change agent, innovator and connector who is tasked with an ever-growing list of executive responsibilities.

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  • IT's the Best Kept Secret: Using Advanced Technology to Recruit & Retain Physicians in a Competitive Marketplace

    Two forces—a looming physician shortage and the demographic shift occurring as large numbers of aging physicians retire—are driving a change in physicians’ professional culture. Advanced information technology can be a key competitive differentiator for healthcare organizations.

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  • Improving Clinical Workflow Through Effective Context and Identity Management

    Access to timely, reliable, complete, and context-relevant information at the point of care is widely expected to improve clinical workflow. These improvements, in turn, are expected to help resolve many of the cost, patient safety, and quality challenges plaguing the U.S. healthcare system.

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  • Patient Information Aggregation

    Patient Information Aggregation provides clinicians with simplified, real-time and integrated access to patient information. Regardless of where the information resides - in Windows-based , terminal-emulated, Citrix-based, or Web-based applications, patient data is aggregated and presented whenever and wherever it's needed.

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Perspectives

Issues and challenges facing the industry, the organization, the profession—and how Carefx can help.