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Contacts:
Stephanie Covert
OMG
+1-843-737 0637
pr@omg.org
Ken Lord
FireStar Software
+1-781-710 8506
Lord@FireStarSoftware.com
OMG and FireStar Software Partner to
Bring Model Driven Message Interoperability Standard to
the
Southeast Michigan Health Information Exchange (SEMHIE)
Needham, MA, USA - September 14, 2010 - OMG™ and
FireStar Software (FireStar) are pleased to announce that
their partnership with the Southeast Michigan Health
Information Exchange (SEMHIE) and the Southeast Michigan
Health Authority (SEMHA) has contributed to SEMHIE receiving
contracts from the US Social Security Administration and a
Beacon Community Grant from the US Department of Health and
Human Services. The combined contracts received by SEMHIE
are more than $19 million.
The partnership between FireStar and OMG will enable
SEMHIE to achieve their goals of dramatically shortening the
time and cost of processing Social Security disability
claims (SSA Contract) and increasing the quality and
decreasing the cost of the treatment of diabetes (Beacon
Community Grant) for the citizens of Southeast Michigan.
The cornerstone of this partnership is OMG's Model Driven
Message Interoperability™ (MDMI™) Standard. MDMI was
developed to achieve information exchange at the highest
quality, the lowest implementation cost, and with the
ability to incorporate future changes. In both the SSA and
Beacon projects, FireStar will apply the MDMI standard to
achieve the exchange of healthcare information.
"We are pleased that SEMHIE has been recognized for
its vision in applying the MDMI Standard and other standards
to increase the quality of healthcare and reduce costs for
all members of SEMHIE," said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D.,
chairman and CEO of OMG. "FireStar, who has taken the
leadership position in the both the MDMI Standard and in
working with SEMHIE, was instrumental in reaching the point
where we will demonstrate the value of the MDMI Standard for
the US Healthcare industry."
"We believe that the power of the MDMI standard
represents a quantum improve in quality, cost, and
implementation time for healthcare interoperability
situations. FireStar looks forward to working with others
throughout the US Healthcare system in applying the
innovative MDMI Standard so that they can achieve the same
benefits as Southeast Michigan," said Ken Lord, CEO of
FireStar Software.
"Using MDMI standards will enable SEMHIE to provide
high quality, low cost exchange of secure healthcare
information for all our participants, from the largest
hospital systems to our small private physician
practices," said Dr. Robert Jackson, President of
SEMHIE.
"Reliable information exchange can be a matter of
life or death for healthcare providers. Unfortunately, the
reliable exchange of electronic information is an
exceptionally difficult problem due to misinterpretations,
inaccuracies in data preparation, and convolved meaning.
Such problems typically occur as electronic data moves from
one software program to another, movement that can be
internal or external to an organization. Furthermore,
information interoperability challenges are not limited to
healthcare. The problem is important to banking, insurance,
and electronic commerce," said Joseph M. Bugajski, a
Research Vice President who specializes in electronic
information management and governance at Gartner. "The
interoperability of information between organizations cannot
be left to proprietary methods and bilateral agreement;
information interoperability demands standardization."
Southeast Michigan Health Information Exchange is an
organization whose membership includes Chrysler, Ford Motor
Company, General Motors, the Wayne and Oakland County
Medical Societies, Greater Detroit Area Health Council, Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Michigan State University,
MPRO, and the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit Medical
Center, Oakwood, Beaumont Hospitals, Trinity Health, and St.
John Providence Health System and others. Its goal is to
provide an interoperable health information exchange for the
benefit of the residents, providers and other stakeholders
in Southeast Michigan.
About MDMI
Message interoperability reduces costs, increases data
quality and increases revenue. By automating
interoperability between disparate systems, MDMI improves
communications, helps reduce errors and provides a way to
address future business changes. MDMI lets institutions use
standardized maps provided by message format owners
(including standards bodies, financial institutions and
others) to correctly map information in message formats.
Facilitating and mediating information across a number of
message formats is a high cost obligation for institutions
in healthcare, banking, insurance, and other industries. The
standard also provides a migration path to new message
formats. The MDMI standard specification was submitted by
FireStar Software, IBM, Informatica, IP Commerce and VISA
with support from Adaptive and SWIFT, and was approved in
2009.
For more information about MDMI Labs, see http://www.mdmi-consortium.org/labs;
for more information about OMG, visit http://www.omg.org.
Questions about membership in OMG or the MDMI Consortium and
participating in MDMI Labs may be directed to Ken Berk at
+1-781-444 0404 or ken.berk@omg.org.
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About FireStar Software
FireStar Software builds software for Service Providers who
build and maintain electronic information exchanges. With
our flagship product, EdgeNode, FireStar directly addresses
and solves the key obstacles that have limited the adoption
of electronic message exchange to only the largest entities
to allow a much broader and richer adoption that includes
the Small and Medium Business. FireStar Software is a
portfolio company of Amphion Innovations plc (AIM: AMP). For
more information on FireStar, visit
www.firestarsoftware.com.
About OMG
OMG™ is an international, open membership, not-for-profit
computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces
develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of
technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG’s
modeling standards enable powerful visual design, execution
and maintenance of software and other processes. For more
information, visit www.omg.org.
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Edited by Stephanie
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