February 2012Shawn McKenzie

Vendor Neutral Archive

The Secret Squirrel Decoder Ring of the

Health Information Exchange

Course Presenter Bio Overview

Extinct

- National speaker and author on Healthcare IT. - Two decades of management and leadership experience

in re-inventing healthcare delivery. - Involved in ‘think tank’ activities focused on the

interoperative healthcare and technology.

The archive world as we know it

(EMR), HIS, LIS, RIS, CISApplication Database Layer

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• Multiple Devices requiring care and feeding• Continuous additions of array• Minimal interoperability• Requires multiple interfaces to EMR or

Exchange• Expensive• Old School Extinct

Vendor Neutral Archive

(EMR), HIS, LIS, RIS, CISApplication Database Layer

Radiology Cardiology Visible Light Other “Ologies”

Single

Viewer Lifecycle

ManagementThat’s Not ALL Folks

Consolidation with a twist

The Secret Squirrel Decoder Ring

The VNA is the bridge to interoperability in the Health Information Exchange

Health Information Exchange (HIE)

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The idea of moving data to the exchange and creating a data repository secondary to the primary archival infrastructure of institutions is a flawed concept

Use the VNA to provision the exchange

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Other “Ologies”

ExchangeMessaging updates to the exchange

Query from exchange for data on-demand

Provision the exchange with the requested data by utilizing different formats based on the type of data supported by the exchangeXDSXDS-ICDRCCD

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RepositoryOther Data

Utilize the viewer of the VNA for data visualization

VNA: The Secret Squirrel Decoder Ring of the Health Information Exchange

Shawn McKenziePresident & CEO, Ascendian Healthcare Consultingsmckenzie@ascendian.com

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