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Available Services LIPIX provides physicians with a wide variety of services to help them enhance their practices’ efficiency and connectivity. These include a clinical viewer, secure messaging, medication manage- ment, events notification, results distribution and consulting on the attainment of “meaningful use” incentive payments. “The services provided through LIPIX are designed to serve two essential purposes,” says Dr. Stein. “First of all, they serve to improve the quality of care that patients receive. Secondly, they serve to facilitate clinicians’ abilities to do their jobs more effectively and efficiently. LIPIX Clinical Viewer The LIPIX Clinical Viewer is LIPIX’s core service. It consists of a Web-based physician portal application that allows physicians to log in and search for information about patients whom they are treating. Information from community providers connected to the LIPIX network is readily available. The LIPIX Clinical Viewer utilizes the latest in encryption technology and has a view-only capability that leverages patients’ consent selections, so patients can rest assured that their information is kept private and secure and is only shared according to their wishes. “The key benefit of the LIPIX Clinical Viewer is that physicians have access to patient information anytime, anywhere,” says Becker. “This immediate access to patients’ clinical information enables physicians to make more informed treatment and diagnostic decisions.” Secure Messaging “Secure messaging is a wonderful new technology that provides doctor-to-doctor direct communication through an e-mail-like paradigm,” says Greaker. “Previously, physicians had to write information requests or referrals by hand and fax or mail it to their colleagues. Now, they can have secure, direct electronic communication.” The LIPIX Secure Messaging System has three distinctive features: The LIPIX Medication Management System gives clinicians the ability to e-prescribe as well as require medication reconciliation in order to keep their patients’ medication information accurate and complete. + HIPAA compliance — Secure messaging provides a secure, HIPAA-compliant method of clinician-to-clinician com- munication. + A template-based approach — Secure messaging utilizes templates so that information, such as a patient summary report, is more easily displayed, interpreted and utilized. Decision support capabilities are layered into the messages and display alerts or reminders about specific, important pieces of information. + Pre-population of data from the network of community providers — Secure messaging connects to the LIPIX RHIO and facilitates easy pre-population of data into the template message system. This ensures that clinicians do not have to take additional time to manually enter data before sending it to their colleagues. “The LIPIX Secure Messaging System was developed to lever- age the power of the RHIO and the power of a patient-centric approach to accessing data,” says Becker. “While it is very similar to an e-mail conversation, it provides a secure forum for communication between physicians.” Secure messaging is an ideal medium for communicating referrals, consultation requests, patient transfer between health care facilities, patient admission to the emergency department, admission for inpatient care and patient follow-up information. LIPIX allows physicians to access their patients’ previous medical records while the patient is present, facilitating more well-informed decisions regarding patient care. Rapid Delivery of Test Results The LIPIX RHIO transmits data in real time, so physicians can be notified of test results as soon as they become available. Using MDNEWS.COM  MD NEWS Mid Hudson | 7

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