Phase 2: Integrate

Leverage connectivity capabilities that employ Open Source solutions to bridge disparate systems

You need to use a solution that is developed openly and utilizes freely available standards that can grow with your community. A company that utilizes Open Source development provides you with options as to who can service the product and how you can expand the product—reducing the possibility of being locked into a single, proprietary solution. Open source development also provides you access to the brightest and best developers across the world.

Be sure to also avoid the "Big Bang" or "Rip-and-Replace" methods, and instead reduce cost by using existing systems and infrastructure that are developed openly and transparently in the Open Source community.

With this approach, you can:

• Ensure widespread connectivity.
• Efficiently bring new groups and organizations into the community.
• Provide Community Access to key clinical data.
• Expand the collection of clinical data from a variety of sources.
• Deliver significant savings to hospital and community providers.
• Seamlessly integrate lab reports, orders and clinical formularies.
• Provide access to mission-critical clinical data.
• Expand connectivity to include other vendors’ clinical, lab and EMR systems.
• Encourage other proprietary vendors to contribute to the Misys Connect Open Source development effort since they will now benefit from providing their solutions to you using an open framework.

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