Architecture, Development Steps, & Costs
In custom healthcare software development since 2005, ScienceSoft builds robust, regulatory-compliant systems to streamline secure data exchange among hospitals, public health institutions, labs, long-term care facilities, pharmacies, and other entities involved in patient care.
A health information exchange portal is needed to enable the secure exchange of patient health, demographics, and insurance data among the involved parties. Such solutions help healthcare organizations enhance care coordination, reduce medical errors and redundant testing, and improve the quality of care.
A custom HIE portal is a popular choice when highly varied data exchange standards and protocols must be unified for different institutions' software systems.
Implementation time: 6 to 18+ months.
Common integrations: EHR or EMR, LIMS or LIS, RIS, PACS.
Key Capabilities of a Health Information Exchange Portal
Multi-source data integration
An HIE portal integrates patient data from multiple touchpoints, including hospitals, clinics, and labs. Such solutions standardize data exchange formats and protocols to ensure seamless data sharing between different EHRs/EMRs and other systems the involved institutions use. An HIE portal can support different communication methods with the EHR, LIS, and other systems, for instance, via TCP/IP over VPN, secure web services, secure FTP, or secure email.