Rabbit Healthcare Systems Launches Health Information Exchange

Austin, TX, August 27, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Three real world interfaces facilitate the flow of vital patient information between patients, facilities and systems.

Rabbit Healthcare Systems, the leading oncology electronic health records (EHR) and practice management system, today announced that it has launched the first phase of its health information exchange (HIE), going live with functionality and data exchange between McKesson’s Lynx® Mobile Inventory Management System, GenPath (BioReference Labs) Reference Lab, and Docuda’s ERCard patient (ICE – In Case of Emergency) product. The web-based health information exchange is based on a number of common interfaces between Rabbit Healthcare Systems’ 25 client sites with data on over 50,000 patient lives.

Information exchange between disparate systems, locations, and practices continues to be one the foremost challenges facing the automation of healthcare data in the United States today. With over 300 electronic medical records (EMRs) and other healthcare technology vendors in the country, the problem is bigger than simply automating the process of healthcare. To truly lower costs and improve patient care, information must flow seamlessly between facilities, systems, physicians, ancillaries, and so on.

“We are addressing the issue of connecting client-server based systems to ASP solutions. Our HIE will ultimately reduce healthcare costs through connecting multiple vendors, physician offices and healthcare systems, and providing patients access to their information in critical situations,” said Brad Vassberg, chief executive officer of Rabbit Healthcare Systems.

In response to this problem, Rabbit Healthcare Systems has developed a health information exchange based on a number of common interfaces between its 25 client sites with data on over 50,000 patient lives. The HIE facilitates the secure transmission of patient data from the client sites into a central hub in Austin where it is then directed through McKesson’s Lynx Mobile™ Inventory Management System and distributed back to the client. With the proper access credentials, the information on the patient can be accessed from any web portal around the world.

The interface with Lynx Mobile is the first of its kind going through an HIE , closing the loop between an EMR and an inventory management system, thereby increasing efficiencies, eliminating the need for duplicate entries, and avoiding errors. “When a physician orders a chemotherapy drug in Rabbit’s EMR, the chemo nurse can log in and see an order that has been placed and approved. When he/she goes to fulfill the order, the HIE has already communicated to McKesson’s Lynx Mobile Inventory Management System the medications to dispense. The nurse then verifies the dosage and calculates the waste, which is automatically sent back to the Rabbit’s medication and administration record via the HIE. Because this process is now automated, it reduces data entry error and better tracks inventory management,” said Vassberg.

About Rabbit Healthcare Systems
Rabbit Healthcare Systems (www.RabbitRecords.com) is a healthcare technology company with Oncology specific Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management (PM) system offerings. Rabbit was conceived in Austin, Texas in 2004 at Lone Star Oncology in response to a failed system. Rabbit is designed for Oncology Groups and other complex practices with complex treatment billing and multiple locations. As of August 2009, Rabbit has over 25 client sites implemented, representing more than 50,000 patient lives.

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