Liaison Healthcare Selected by Vivature EHR for Lab Orders and Results Integration

ATLANTA, Aug. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Liaison Healthcare, a global provider of secure cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, announced today a strategic partnership with Vivature, connecting NExTT, their Oracle^®-based EHR, to more than 120 labs and imaging departments already integrated within the Liaison Healthcare's EMR-Link™ hub. Vivature is a leading EHR vendor for universities and athletic departments across the nation. Through the partnership, the two companies will offer a joint solution designed to provide their customers with a means to efficiently deliver integrated lab orders and results through the NExTT platform, helping facilitate better patient information exchange across the healthcare continuum.

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In today's changing healthcare environment, the ability to deploy EHRs in a timely and fully functional manner is critical. The partnership between Liaison Healthcare and Vivature EHR brings the strengths of both parties to deliver fully functional orders and results that are easy to set up, easy to use and also creates clean and complete orders for the labs. By offering EMR-Link™, Vivature will allow its clinic customers using NExTT to track students' health information, such as exams including, lab orders and results from one single system within their EHR. Fitting into Vivature's existing workflow, Liaison Healthcare will help Vivature ensure that university clinics and athletic departments are able to track the right patient information regarding the right students, ultimately improving clinical, operational and financial workflow processes.

"It was important for us to find a partner that provides cloud-based lab ordering and results with the ability to interoperate within our EHR platform," said M. Jambukesan, chief information officer at Vivature. "Liaison Healthcare's EMR-Link™ solution will help us offer the best care coordination experience for our customers and their patients."

The EMR-Link solution adds the following capabilities to Vivature customers:

• OrdersAnywhere™ – Integrated and installed as a part of the NExTT EHR, OrdersAnywhere™ is a complete ordering solution, placing clean orders that are checked for medical necessity, support Ask at Order Entry questions, print lab-specific requisitions and specimen labels.
• ResultsAnywhere™ – Lab results are distributed to the EHR patient charts in a provider friendly and patient friendly format, fully compliant with Meaningful Use Stage 1 and Stage 2.
• Patient Friendly Results – With students constantly on the go, lab reports are easy for patients to understand and easily annotated with the physicians' guidance.

"Healthcare delivery is highly dependent on information technology, and Liaison Healthcare is committed to providing the best cloud-based services to our clients so that they can better manage the patient experience," said Gary Palgon, vice president, healthcare solutions, Liaison Healthcare. "By providing Vivature with access to critical lab ordering and results as well as instant access to our ever growing lab hub, we can ensure that our client has the right tools available to efficiently manage and improve the overall healthcare experience."

To learn more about Liaison Healthcare's solutions, visit www.liaisonhealthcare.com.

About Liaison Healthcare
Liaison Technologies is a global integration, data harmonization and data management company, serving more than 1,200 customers in the healthcare industry. With customized solutions offered via a cloud-based platform, Liaison helps health systems, HIEs, pharmaceutical and biotech companies quickly secure meaningful use from a wide variety of health information. Through connecting healthcare entities and harmonizing complex and disparate data, Liaison assists in the improvement of the care coordination process, leading to increased overall efficiency and faster time-to-market. Headquartered in Atlanta, Liaison has offices in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.liaisonhealthcare.com or call 770-442-4900.

About EMR-Link™
Liaison Healthcare delivers a solid cloud-based solution, EMR-Link™, which facilities the process of ordering and receiving patient laboratory tests and results.  EMR-Link is live at over 450 sites, supports 15,000 clinicians and 120 labs throughout the healthcare ecosystem.  Our solution saves time for clinic staff by using the same simple workflow and electronic interface for multiple lab or imaging vendors directly at the clinical desktop. EMR-Link connects laboratories to any EHR system or can be installed to operate independently. Physicians, clinicians, and laboratories benefit greatly from EMR-Link by realizing a reduction in cost and time just by streamlining the lab ordering workflow processes. For more information, visit www.liaisonhealthcare.com/lab-solutions or call 888.806.0309.

About Vivature
Vivature, Inc. is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and serves over 200 universities across the U.S., providing a full turnkey medical billing service for campus health centers and athletic departments. By becoming in-network providers, campuses can generate revenue by billing students' private health insurance for services already provided on campus.  

In order to provide a seamless billing solution, Vivature has developed an interoperable student health portal, practice management system and electronic medical records platform for each health center. Vivature also provides Oracle^®-based software for athletic trainers to perform on-the-spot injury tracking via iPad^®3 voice dictation. Vivature serves over 100 campus health centers and athletic departments across the country. To find out more information for campus health centers and athletic departments, visit http://www.vivature.com.

Liaison and the Liaison logo are trademarks of Liaison Technologies, Inc. All other names or product names mentioned in this release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

For more information:
Jeff Nessler
Dodge Communications
770-576-2573
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