Karos Health and Cisco jointly introduced the Medical Data Exchange Solution (MDES) to improve exchange of medical data and IT and legacy clinical systems connection across health organisations.
The companies said that the Cisco MDES would provide healthcare professionals from multiple institutions with access to patient data from previously disconnected information systems.
It helps address two key challenges – formulating a common patient reference and being able to share and access patient records across disparate systems. In addition, the solution conforms to the IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) security framework to support authorised access and to deny unauthorised access to records.
The companies further said that MDES utilises the IHE technical frameworks to build a standards-based approach to interoperability and data exchange.
Rick Stroobosscher, president of Karos Health, said: With the Cisco MDES, clinical information exchanges can be gradually deployed. For example, the process can start with two hospitals, then encompass their referral base and ancillary services, then expand to a whole regional health authority and potentially to a national grid of connected health providers and patients.”
Brantz Myers, director of healthcare business development at Cisco Canada, said: The Cisco network architecture makes MDES a hardened resilient platform, which can be deployed as a set of appliances and centrally configured and monitored. With MDES, the network becomes the healthcare platform for collaborating, decreasing costs and risks and simplifying IT management.
