Orion Health Patient Portal Achieves ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular Certification From ICSA Labs

Orion Health Patient Portal Certified to support Eligible Providers or Hospitals who Wish to Qualify for Meaningful Use Incentives and Achieve Accountable Care Goals

Orion Health, a leading global, privately-held eHealth software organization, announced that the Orion Health Patient Portal (Patient Portal) v. 4.0 has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Complete EHR Certification, which designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible hospitals with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Patient Portal v. 4.0 was certified by ICSA Labs, an Office of the National Coordinator-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) and is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Patient Portal is a secure, web-based tool that enables patients and their authorized caregivers to access and manage their health records and improve communication with their healthcare providers. Increasing shared decision-making with providers empowers patients to become proactive participants in their care, improving their ability to self-manage chronic conditions. This is essential in achieving patient care goals associated with value-based payment models, such as Accountable Care.

“Patient Portal is designed to support providers in successfully engaging patients in their care by helping to provide a clear understanding of what the patient needs to do, which in turn can result in a better patient experience and improved health outcomes,” said Paul Viskovich, Orion Health President. “Our Patient Portal solution helps all parties work toward accountable care and outcomes-based payment model goals, and now also offers the added benefit of supporting eligible providers as they attest to Meaningful Use to qualify for incentive payments.”

Orion Health Patient Portal version 4.0 has attained 2014 Edition Modular Ambulatory EHR Certification and 2014 Edition Modular Inpatient EHR Certification from the ICSA Labs ONC Health IT Certification Program. Certification was granted following rigorous and thorough testing by ICSA Labs, an Accredited Test Lab (ATL).

Orion Health Patient Portal v4.0’s certification number for eligible providers is 140045R00. Orion Health Patient Portal v4.0’s certification number for hospitals is 140046R00.

Orion Health Patient Portal v.4.0 meets the following certification criteria:

• 170.314(a)(15) Patient-specific education resources
• 170.314(d)(1) Authentication, access control, and authorization
• 170.314(d)(5) Automatic log-off
• 170.314(d)(8) Integrity
• 170.314(e)(1) View, download and transmit to 3rd party
• 170.314(e)(3) Secure messaging (Ambulatory only)
• 170.314(g)(1) Automated numerator recording
• 170.314(g)(4) Quality management system

The additional software relied upon to comply with one or more of the certification criteria include: Apache Directory Studio, Gmail, http://www.base64encode.org, Medline Plus Connect, Oracle DB server query, Orion Health Clinical Portal, Orion Health Direct Secure Messaging, SoapUI, and Unix NTP.

The additional types of costs that an Eligible Provider or Eligible Hospital would pay to implement this EHR Module’s capabilities in order to attempt to meet meaningful use objectives and measures include: Additional costs include initial software license, annual software support/maintenance, and optional services implementation fees for projects requiring Orion Health assistance.

This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

About Orion Health Patient Portal
Patient Portal seamlessly integrates with Orion Health Collaborative Care – a suite of products created to help improve care delivery and quality, increase patient engagement, reduce costs and allow healthcare organizations to manage population health and achieve Meaningful Use. For more information, visit http://www.orionhealth.com/options/patient-portal.

About Orion Health Inc.
Founded in 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand, Orion Health is the only global, privately-owned eHealth technology company. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health has become the world’s leading provider of health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions. Today, Orion Health products and solutions are implemented in more than 30 countries, used by hundreds of thousands of clinicians, and help facilitate care for tens of millions of patients. Clinicians, provider facilities and OEM partners rely on Orion Health to facilitate data exchange between hospitals, health systems, HIEs, and affiliated providers and medical devices, resulting in improved care coordination, increased cost savings and efficiencies, and enhanced quality of care. In the U.S., Orion Health HIE provides the technology backbone for state and regional HIEs across the country. Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine is used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and nearly every state and local health departments for public health reporting. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com.

About ICSA Labs
ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, offers third-party testing and certification of security products and network-connected devices, such as printers and faxes, to measure product compliance, reliability and performance to many of the world’s top security vendors. For more information, visit http://www.icsalabs.com.