SUCCESS STORY
HI-BRIDGE Solutions (HBS)
Industry• Healthcare

Solution• OpenText™ Alloy™ for Healthcare

HI-BRIDGE Solutions (HBS) provides
affordable health informationexchange (HIE) across the state
OpenText Alloy for Healthcare provides interoperability to rural
hospitals and small clinics as the backbone for HI-BRIDGE Health
Information Exchange (HIE)

Results
Increased interoperability acrosspoints of care
Enhanced adoption as providers
can use existing EHR systems
Improved patient outcomes withpoint-of-care information
Reduced cost of carethrough efficient access anddecreased duplication“With HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange(HIE), we’ve demonstrated that the OpenText
Alloy cloud-based platform offers a lower
upfront investment and ease of use thatencourages adoption and fosters sustainability.
This helps rural providers make better clinicaland business decisions for measurable ROI.”
Dominic Mack, MD

MBA Executive Medical Director
HI-BRIDGE Solutions and GaHC National Center
for Primary Care Morehouse School of Medicine

HI-BRIDGE Solutions (HBS) provides affordable health information exchange (HIE) across the state
Not many health information exchanges (HIEs) cater primarily
to smaller independent practices and rural hospitals due to theunique challenges these providers present, which include smaller
IT budgets, lack of IT expertise and siloed electronic health record(EHR) systems. When HI-BRIDGE Solutions (HBS) decided tolaunch its HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiative,
it knew it would need a creative solution that leveled the playing
field for all participating providers, regardless of available
IT resources.
With a long history of bringing health information exchange
connectivity and EHR interoperability to healthcare providers,
OpenText offered the creative solution HI-BRIDGE was looking for.
OpenText™ Alloy™ for Healthcare was chosen to be the backbone ofthe HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiative. As a cloud
platform, Alloy is able to provide the ease of use and affordability
needed to foster HIE adoption among even the smallest practices,
yet is also sophisticated enough to provide network members withthe following critical capabilities:• Electronic access to aggregated patient information. Alloyaggregates patient information in a centralized repository.
Accessible via a web portal, the repository stores comprehensive
patient medical history, such as allergies, medications, problems,procedures, lab results, radiology reports and other types of
information that are crucial to providing continuum of care.
• Connection to the HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange (HIE).
Through bi-directional integration of patient data with GaHIN,
Georgia’s statewide HIE, Alloy ensures that HI-BRIDGE network
members have access to statewide and nationwide patientdata, and vice-versa.

• Lab and radiology connectivity for a wide variety of EHRs—
or no EHR. Alloy integrates lab and radiology orders andresults with a practice’s EHR system, eliminating many ofthe errors that cause patient callbacks and reimbursement
challenges. For practices without EHR systems, lab andradiology information is made available via a web portal.
By managing ongoing aggregation and harmonization of data, alongwith infrastructure updates to maintain compliance with regulatory
requirements, the OpenText Cloud platform keeps the costs of theHI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange at a level that providersof all sizes can afford. Additionally, the use of web- and standardsbased services allows providers to use existing EHR systems,eliminating the expense of new technology and staff training while
also speeding adoption.
Other benefits to HI-BRIDGE members include:• Reduced cost of care through more efficient access topatient information and reduced duplication of services.
• Better patient outcomes as a result of having access to patients’comprehensive medical histories at the point of care.
•The ability to fully comply with CMS EHR Incentive Programs inorder to take advantage of incentives and avoid penalties.
• Flexible pricing points based on varying service level options.
Dominic Mack, Executive Medical Director at HI-BRIDGE Solutions,summarizes the benefits of using the Alloy platform: “WithHI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange (HIE), we’vedemonstrated that the OpenText Alloy cloud-based platform
offers a lower upfront investment and ease of use that encourages
adoption and fosters sustainability. This helps rural providers
make better clinical and business decisions for measurable ROI.”

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