Ft Lauderdale, Florida 2/3/2010 11:15:00 AM
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MedVirginia to Expand MEGAHIT Project with SSA

MedVirginia has announced that it will significantly expand its MEGAHIT project with the Social Security Administration (SSA).  The company has partnered with Centra in an effort to bring three hospitals online with the SSA.  The hospitals to be worked on are Centra Lynchburg General Hospital, Centra Virginia Baptist Hospital, and Centra Southside Community Hospital.

 

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Commissioner of Social Security Maichal Astrue, announced that MedVirginia and 14 other healthcare providers will be granted $17.4 million in contract awards for the provision of electronic medical records to the agency.  The SSA Solicitation is entitled “The Authorized Release of Medical Information through Integration with the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)” and will expand on previously done by SSA and MedVirginia in 2009.  The expansion will leverage the company’s proven health information exchange infrastructure and CONNECT gateway to the NHIN through the establishment of a link with Centra’s clinical information system.

 

MedVirginia LLC, established in 2000, is a provider-owned organization based in Richmond, VA. Its organizational purpose is to improve quality, safety and efficiency through the use of health information technology. At its core is MedVirginia Solution®, a community-based health information exchange linking clinical data from physicians, hospitals, labs and pharmacies. In January 2006, MedVirginia’s health information exchange became operational, making it among the first operational community-based systems in the U.S. In 2007, MedVirginia was selected as one of the original NHIN participants. In 2009, MedVirginia became the first HIE to exchange live patient health information across the NHIN and the first to deploy the open source CONNECT gateway.

 

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