Storage firm EMC has introduced its Healthcare Integration Portfolio (HIP), a suite of products for managing and sharing all forms of patient-related content.
Part of EMC's Documentum portfolio, HIP provides support for standards such as Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS), HL7, and DICOM to enhance the value of an electronic medical record, according to the vendor.
HIP offers access to patient health data at the point of care based on IHE's Cross-Community Access (XCA) standard, EMC said. A vendor-neutral repository is also available for storing structured and unstructured healthcare information such as images, media, and other patient-centric documents.
The suite also features scalable software architecture based on open standards to allow interoperability between any healthcare information application for secure sharing and exchange of information, EMC said. The vendor said it has also incorporated identity mapping capabilities to automatically reconcile patient identity, including name changes, corrections, or multiple record numbers using HL7 ADT messages.
