Integrating Healthcare Information Systems

Keeping up with changes in Health Level 7 (HL7) messaging standards is an ever-increasing challenge as demands for exchanging electronic health records with regional health information organizations (RHIOs), health information exchanges (HIEs), and health information networks (HINs) continue to require changes to the standards. Cisco Application-Oriented Networking (AON) provides a new approach that:

• Dramatically simplifies the secure transport and reliable delivery of HL7 messages directly from existing applications
• Provides a reliable, scalable, network platform for compliance with current and future Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) data exchange standards, including secure delivery and routing of HIPAA X12 and National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) messages over private networks as well as the Internet.

Designed to meet the demanding requirements of healthcare providers, payers, benefits managers, and governmental agencies, Cisco AON extends and replaces legacy server-based messaging and data security software with a reliable and scalable network-embedded platform. Add secure connectivity, message auditing, nonrepudiation, data mining, and high-speed processing to the Cisco AON Healthcare Solution, and it easily surpasses the capabilities of server-based messaging and transformation engines.