Medicity, Inc. announced Wednesday that El Camino Hospital has gone live in only 60 days with the first phase of a health information exchange in California's Silicon Valley.

"The launch of this project creates an important asset for our physicians by offering real-time exchange of critical health information between their practice and our hospitals," said Greg Walton, CIO of El Camino Hospital, a not-for-profit organization with hospitals in Mountain View and Los Gatos, Calif. "Our multi-phase rollout with Medicity will help break down silos of information that impede the flow of healthcare information and complement physicians' efforts to achieve meaningful use requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009."

Phase One of the project includes deployment off the Medicity Novo Grid to deliver real-time clinical, financial and demographic information electronically to independent physicians of El Camino (IPECH) practices, as well as the RotaCare Free Clinic and other area providers. Data including ADT, insurance, laboratory results, radiology reports, pathology reports and transcribed documents will be sent directly to the physicians' electronic health records and practice management systems. For those providers without EHRs, the same information is accessible via any Web-enabled device, including a personal computer or mobile platform such as a smartphone.

"El Camino Hospital will enable the quick and easy exchange of patient data with EHR-based offices while still offering a solution for physicians in paper-based practices that have yet to adopt EHRs," said Kipp Lassetter, MD, CEO of Salt Lake City-based Medicity. "As those physicians adopt EHRs over the next several years, Medicity 'future-proofs' their environment, enabling them to easily exchange health information and collaborate with other providers on the patient's care team."

Future phases of the initiative will focus on broader health information exchanges among area providers, including workflow-improvement capabilities like electronic referrals, consults, order initiation, e-prescribing and analytics. The initiative also seeks to establish a patient-centric community health record and community connectivity via the statewide HIE, CalRHIO.