Boston Medical Center Managing H1N1 Flu Vaccination for its Community with
Carefx's New Immunization Management Solution
In conjunction with its community information exchange, BMC can easily verify
required vaccinations and enter critical data to ensure patient safety for
H1N1, seasonal flu and pneumovax vaccines
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Acknowledging the critical role of
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines in ensuring the
safety and efficacy of H1N1 vaccinations, Carefx Corporation, a leading
provider of interoperable workflow solutions to advance the quality and safety
of patient care, today announced that Boston Medical Center (BMC) has deployed
the Fusionfx Immunization Management portal designed to enter and track H1N1
vaccination administration history and support broad, community-wide
immunization administration tracking.
"Deployed in less than two weeks, the immunization management portal empowers
BMC to leverage the existing consent processes and portal infrastructure of
its community information exchange (CIE) to integrate vaccination information
from community health centers (CHCs) and acute care facilities, and facilitate
vaccination data sharing among CHCs," said Daniel Newman, M.D., BMC's Chief
Medical Information Officer. "Using Carefx's solution, BMC is better able to
adhere to the most appropriate H1N1 multi-dose regimen and sequence in
conjunction with seasonal flu and pneumovax administration."
Whether BMC patients and employees receive their H1N1, seasonal flu and
pneumovax vaccinations in emergency departments, CHCs, or inpatient
facilities, the Fusionfx immunization management portal enables vaccination
data to be captured, integrated with CIE data and used for reporting. The
portal also captures demographic, lab and workflow data, information on H1N1,
seasonal flu and pneumovax vaccinations and clinical evaluation.
"The Fusionfx immunization management portal will help BMC professionals
follow CDC guidelines related to issues such as adult and pediatric dosing and
required intervals between H1N1, seasonal flu and pneumovax vaccinations at
the point of care," said Qi Li, M.D., Carefx's Vice President of Clinical
Strategies. "With the portal, BMC can more easily verify if patients and
employees have received required vaccinations and access specifics such as
vaccine lot number should safety problems emerge in the future. In addition,
the Fusionfx immunization management portal meets the Immunization Information
Systems goals set forth by CDC."
The Fusionfx immunization management portal, which uses the same portal-based
infrastructure as the Fusionfx eReferral solution that BMC deployed to manage
its physician referral management process, offers both patient search and
vaccination history and entry. Clinicians can search a patient by medical
record number, name, age or gender. Historical vaccination information is
aggregated with the CIE. The clinician can also quickly enter vaccinations
administered.
Immunization tracking is top-of-mind in healthcare, not just because of the
prevalence of the H1N1 virus. Immunization repositories, such as the one
developed by Santa Clara County, California, have the potential to decrease
duplicate immunizations, support vaccine recalls and adverse events and
introduce and track new vaccines. Moreover, growing numbers of health
information exchanges (HIEs), including those in Louisiana, Minnesota,
Wisconsin and New York, are investigating immunization surveillance, as are
large nations such as China where five percent of the approximately 1.3
billion-strong population are slated to receive the H1N1 vaccine by the end of
2009.
"The Fusionfx immunization management portal can be easily and quickly
replicated in hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, public
health departments and HIEs," said Andy Hurd, Chairman and CEO of Carefx.
"Physician executives, medical directors and materials management
professionals will appreciate the value of a tool that can aggregate
vaccination information from multiple sources using a common data access
format."
About Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit, 626-licensed bed, academic
medical center located in Boston's historic South End. The hospital is the
primary teaching affiliate for Boston University School of Medicine.
Emphasizing community-based care, Boston Medical Center, with its mission to
provide consistently accessible health services to all, is the largest safety
net hospital in New England.
About Carefx Corporation
Carefx supports healthcare organizations in achieving their vision of
advancing the quality and safety of patient care delivery through its Fusionfx
solution suite. Fusionfx streamlines and simplifies clinical and business
workflow and connects care providers to the information they need - where,
when, and how they need it. By managing care transitions and information gaps
between diverse systems, departments and facilities, Fusionfx delivers crucial
patient information with speed, efficiency and logic. Carefx supports more
than 600 hospitals, health systems, regional health information organizations
(RHIOs) and health information exchanges (HIEs) across North America and
Europe.
For more information, visit www.carefx.com, or contact Carefx at (480)
833-5010 or by email at info@carefx.com.
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