As the nation’s providers, payers, and healthcare consumers envision meaningful use of information technology, HIE organizations have an opportunity to vastly improve American health—if provided new and powerful tools.

Microsoft Amalga UIS for HIE offers a revolutionary real-time health information exchange platform which frees data from multiple clinical and administrative systems across corporate boundaries and delivers more comprehensive and timely access to patient information in an easy-to-use interface. Microsoft’s robust HIE tools, including Master Person Index (MPI) functionality, Record Locator Service (RLS), and encrypted messaging services, deliver results that are fully consistent with existing and emerging HIE standards. Amalga UIS offers a powerful platform to facilitate data exchange among healthcare providers, ancillary service providers, pharmacies, health plans, and employers while accommodating one more critically important player—the healthcare consumer—who is able to contribute personal health information to the exchange and manage consent via Microsoft HealthVault.

Amalga UIS for HIE uses a hybrid approach to multi-enterprise information exchange, which combines the security and control features of a federated model with the cost efficiency, performance, and high availability of centralization. Aggregation and reporting capabilities enable authorized users to explore data and answer complex questions about individual patients, patient cohorts, and population health.

With Amalga UIS, end users are able to explore data and solve problems in ways that they have never been able to previously, unleashing the potential of our healthcare knowledge workers to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the care delivery process.

By unifying ambulatory and inpatient data in a common delivery interface, Amalga UIS delivers views across the care continuum without requiring employees to learn multiple systems or requiring IT to maintain multiple systems.

With Amalga UIS, HIE organizations are able to mobilize electronic health information in a region or community, seamlessly and rapidly bringing real-time data from a variety of clinics and hospitals into a concise view of a single patient or an entire population.

Choose from additional Microsoft or non-Microsoft applications that can connect with HealthVault, allowing patients to provide the HIE with additional health data or history, and the HIE to offer patients additional convenience and services.

Our healthcare system is challenged by isolated health information stored in filing cabinets and across disconnected servers. Without access to unified information, we struggle to make system-wide improvements. Care providers and payers are at a disadvantage and citizens cannot take control of their health data. Microsoft is working with state and local governments to improve the strength and effectiveness of our healthcare system through innovative technology that empowers all stakeholders to be part of the solution. A regional or statewide implementation of the Amalga UIS unlocks health data and creates a connected health community.

For a per-patient cost of less than five dollars per year, Amalga UIS for HIE can potentially save the healthcare system hundreds of dollars per patient annually through cost savings and improved quality of care.

Microsoft Amalga UIS for HIE delivers on the vision of connected health. Quality improvement for less cost is now a reality.

For more information about Amalga UIS for HIE, please read the WHIE case study.