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TopAcademic Medical Center Chooses Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine
UAB Medicine to use Orion Health’s integration engine
 
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Sept. 28, 2016 – Universityof Alabama at Birmingham (UAB Medicine) will replace its connectivity software platform with the Orion Health Rhapsody® Integration Engine,Orion Health announced today.
 
UAB Medicine needed a state-of-the-art integrationsoftware platform that would be easy for the information technology staff to learn and use, powered by technology powerful enough to support elaborate data transformations and unique rule sets. UAB Medicine utilizes a wide range of majorhardware and operating system platforms as well as software it developed on its own, so its integration needs were complex.
 
UAB Medicine’s transition to Rhapsody will involverewriting approximately 300 interfaces as well as implementing new interfaces and integration projects using Rhapsody.
 
Rhapsody achieves rapid interoperabilitybetween healthcare systems, enabling connected solutions in less time and at a lower cost. As Orion Health’s foundation product, Rhapsody is the enabler that bringssystems together and is a proven, high-performance engine for robust, reliable exchange and acquisition of health data.
 
AboutUAB Medicine
UAB Medicine comprises the School of Medicine andthe $3 billion UAB Health System that includes all of the University of Alabama atBirmingham’s patient-care activities and 2,300 licensed beds, the majority in UAB Hospital — thethird-largest public hospital in the United States, winner of the Women's Choice award, and one of U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals. UAB is the state of Alabama’s largest single employer and an internationally renowned research university and academic health center; its professional schools and specialty patient-care programs are consistently ranked among the nation’s top 50. UAB is the largest academic medical center in Alabama and one of the top four largest academic medical centers in the United States. UAB’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science isadvancing innovative discoveries for better health as a two-time recipient of the prestigious Center for TranslationalScience Award. Find more information at www.uab.edu and www.uabmedicine.org.
 
About Orion Health
Orion Health is atechnology company that provides solutions that enable healthcare to over 100 million patients in more than 25 countries. Its open technology platform seamlessly integrates all forms of relevant data to deliver population health and precision medicine solutions across the entire health community. Orion Health makes healthcare information available anywhere by providing healthcare IT connectivity in every U.S. state and in over 30 countries worldwide. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health’s Amadeus, with the Rhapsody Integration Engine, facilitates data acquisition and aggregation within and among payer and provider organizations, accountable care organizations, governments and health information exchanges. The company employs more than 1,250 people globally and is committed to continual innovation, investing over 30 percent of total operating revenue year to date in research and development, to cement its position at the forefront of precision medicine. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com/us and connecton Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
 

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