HIPAA Compliant Communication Platform Increases Ease of Working Among Healthcare Professionals
Business Situation
In health system, paper-based communications have inherent inefficiencies that result in poor service, duplication, errors and wasted time. Therefore, there has been an increased interest, focused on standardized, secure, electronic transfer of health information among physicians, healthcare professionals and health care organizations, known as Health Information Exchange (HIE). Nowadays, to enable even more seamless communication among healthcare professionals and the same, SocialHIE has come into existence.
Our client iMedicor Inc., founded in 2001 and based in Nanuet, New York, is a national provider of comprehensive secure communications solutions for the healthcare community. iMedicor offers physicians and other healthcare professionals the use of a HIPAA-compliant communications network that addresses current federal standards for security and Interoperability. iMedicor’s solutions facilitate secure exchange of patient documents and information and practice productivity in real-time.
iMedicor SocialHIE is an online social/professional architecture coupled with Health Information Exchange (HIE), developed on Liferay platform. iMedicor SocialHIE enables healthcare professionals who are its members, to exchange patient-centric information via the Internet with other members, who are part of their communities, within a secure HIPAA-compliant environment and even between disparate EHR systems. iMedicor SocialHIE required standard system maintenance and support, along with development of new features and improvement of existing functionalities, so they approached us, LTS, to help accomplish the same goals.
Technology
• Liferay 6.1.1
• JavaScript
• HTML5
• CSS3
• JAVA/ J2EE
• MySQL 5.5
Solution
LTS worked jointly with iMedicor’s business team to deliver a custom solution based on client’s specific requirements. Some of the solution’s features involved customization of core Liferay functionality, themes and layouts and custom portlet development. The customizations made to Liferay by our expert team of Liferay developers worked towards enhancing the user experience of all iMedicor SocialHIE members. One of the major challenges of the project was to understand the client’s requirements in the absence of an authorized and clear specifications document at the beginning of the project. Our developers successfully designed and developed iMedicor SocialHIE application covering all the requirements.
Features
iMedicor SocialHIE web application is built on Liferay, however to keep the design aligned with client’s ideas, all features and functionalities were styled and customized.
Among many other features, iMedicor SocialHIE;
- Provided secure instant messaging that supported internal staff requirements, facilitated appointments and referrals with other practices, and allowed off-site physicians to contact staff from the hospital immediately.
- Allowed members to create practises, personal lists, message and send attachments to these lists
- Allowed sharing of patient-centric data, images and test results with numerous recipients simultaneously
- Allowed building referral communities and peer networks
- Allowed access of a vast catalogue of accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs
Some of the major benefits of iMEdicor;
- provides reliable and easy to use platform for users
- Enhances satisfaction among healthcare professionals using the technology
- Intuitive user interface, which improved the visual appeal of the iMedicor SocialHIE application
- Healthcare professionals, hospitals, physicians and health information exchanges who are members of iMedicor’s SocialHIE can stay connected within iMedicor’s social networking architecture
enables communicate with other professionals and physicians outside the social network in a secure environment