NextGen Healthcare, a provider of healthcare information systems, services, and connectivity solutions, today announced it has successfully connected to the Mass HIway, marking the opening of a new secure electronic communication channel for Massachusetts healthcare providers. This has created thousands of connections across hospitals and eligible professionals nationwide.
Through this partnership, providers utilizing NextGen® Share can now exchange crucial patient information with the 350+ organizations connected to the Mass HIway, the statewide health information exchange that facilitates the transmission of healthcare data and health information amongst providers, hospitals, and other healthcare entities throughout Massachusetts.
As a HISP solution, NextGen Share provides secure connectivity between both NextGen Healthcare and non-NextGen Healthcare providers. The solution fully supports interoperability across all certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) vendors to enable robust exchange of clinical information. It includes a searchable provider directory and message translation between supported formats. Providers can exchange clinical data files such as Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) files and attachments, referral request letters, intake notes, and more. Access to and sharing of this type of patient data will improve patient safety and patient health outcomes across the network.
“Collaborating and connecting with an interoperability leader like NextGen Healthcare, Mass HIway participants will now be able to connect with many Community Health Centers and practices that use NextGen’s EHR and HISP, resulting in better coordination of care for each patient and more comprehensive information for every physician,” said Darrel Harmer, acting secretariat chief information officer at the Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Health and Human Services in a statement. “The partnership with NextGen Healthcare exemplifies how use of the Mass HIway can improve the speed and efficiency of care coordination for all Massachusetts’ residents.”
The Mass HIway is operated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Health and Human Services and overseen by a Health Information Technology Council and informed by consumer, provider, legal and policy, and technology advisory groups to promote a transparent, multi-stakeholder engagement model.
