LAS VEGAS – Interoperability technology vendor ELLKAY has made four announcements at HIMSS16 including new products within or enhancements to its laboratory, archiving, API and connectivity offerings. ELLKAY is connected to more than 34,000 physician practices, 100 electronic health records systems and 500 practice management systems, and links data between practices, hospitals, laboratories, health information exchanges and other healthcare organizations.

ELLKAY has debuted a new feature to its LKTransfer offering – Direct-enabled delivery of orders and results from laboratories to EHRs. As part of the Nationwide Health Information Network, the Direct Project was introduced to provide connectivity between organizations and data movement in a simple, secure and standards-based way. EHRs and provider organizations are sending referrals and prescriptions via Direct Project specifications.

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ELLKAY is extending use of the Direct Project protocols and specifications, enabling laboratories to connect to EHRs to send results directly into a provider’s inbox. LKTransfer, a secure orders and results delivery and management platform, now offers sending orders and results via Direct, connecting ELLKAY’s hundreds of laboratory clients to hospital, health system or physician group EHRs.

The interoperability vendor also has launched new modules for its LKEMR-Archive product. LKEMR-Archive is a HIPAA-compliant application that gives healthcare practitioners instant, point-of-care access to historical patient data. Providers can open a patient chart and view a searchable, complete picture of patient health including diagnoses, treatments, immunizations, lab results, appointments, images and PDFs, the vendor said.

Now, a new patient historical data archive offering provides financial data modules that enable hospitals and physician practices to completely retire or decommission their legacy systems. For years, ELLKAY has partnered with EHR companies and hospitals to convert physician practices’ old data and provide the data in the vendor’s secure, long-term, cloud-based archive while retiring legacy systems. The vendor now is extending this offering to include financial data – patient payment histories, claims, collections, statements and more.

ELLKAY also is adding to its PDL product APIs to connect to physician practice EHRs to access clinical data feeds and accelerate data movement in healthcare, the vendor said. ELLKAY works with data analytics platforms, health information exchanges, payers, health systems and other organizations, connecting them to their physician practices and providing them with clinical data to boost analytics, clinical benchmarks and quality measures reporting.

LKPatientDataLink is a HIPAA-compliant technology that extracts and normalizes data from different systems and delivers it in any standard format on a periodic basis. According to the vendor, it eliminates an organization’s most difficult challenges – working with different EHRs and clinical data elements while ensuring data security, HIPAA and privacy requirements are met.

ELLKAY now is extending the LKPatientDataLink platform, enabling healthcare organizations to securely connect to their practices via APIs in a way that gives them more control and flexibility over clinical data.

And finally, ELLKAY has introduced LKData Insights, which connects to disparate systems such as EHRs, patient portals, call systems, billing systems and others, to transform data into insights, the company said. Through scorecards and dashboards, Insights provides business intelligence and analytics designed to help an organization improve operational performance, productivity and patient engagement.

“Our goal is to continue connecting disparate systems and organizations, delivering quality clinical, claims and administrative data to ultimately improve patient outcomes and impact patient-centric healthcare,” said Shreya Patel, vice president of product strategy at ELLKAY.

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