Reliance eHealth Collaborative & Zen Healthcare IT

Leveraging an Integration as a Service (IaaS) platform to more effectively manage data connections, message volume and scale with Zen Healthcare IT.

Zen Healthcare IT (“Zen”), a leading interoperability technology and services company, has announced a new technology and services partnership with Reliance eHealth Collaborative, a growing health information exchange (HIE) organization in the Pacific Northwest.

Reliance eHealth Collaborative securely enables the exchange of clinical data and medical records between over 260 medical practices, hospitals, care facilities, and payers. Participants across Oregon and parts of Washington gain access to critical health information with a broader picture of their patients’ health status and events. As Reliance’s participant growth accelerates, they recognize the need to substantially improve their technology infrastructure and scale as data volumes skyrocket and new data types need to be supported.

“The performance of our technology infrastructure has never been more important than it is today,” says Erick Maddox, Executive Director of Reliance eHealth Collaborative. “We made the decision to add Zen’s integration as a service platform to allow us to connect to more participants, faster, and enhance our overall data exchange capabilities.”

Zen’s integration as a service (IaaS) platform, known as Gemini, helps organizations like Reliance create and maintain healthcare data interfaces between the vast number of electronic health record (EHR) systems in use by healthcare facilities across their communities, regions, and organizations nationwide.

“We are honored to work with Mr. Maddox and the Reliance team,” says Marilee Benson, President of Zen Healthcare IT. “Our technology and engineering services will work behind the scenes to ensure every provider in the Reliance network can get the health information they need, when they need it.”

As one of the few companies offering a pure Integration as a Service platform for healthcare, Zen’s Gemini solution is becoming a core interoperability asset for HIEs, health IT vendors, providers and health systems. It helps organizations ensure that they can meet advanced requirements for healthcare interoperability in a sustainable way. To learn more about Zen and their Gemini Integration Platform and interoperability engineering services, visit https://consultzen.com, email info@consultzen.com, or call the Zen interoperability services hotline at 949-396-0361.

About Zen Healthcare IT
Zen Healthcare IT (“Zen”) is an interoperability technology and consulting firm. Zen helps all stakeholders in healthcare – vendors, providers, payers, HIEs, and ACOs – simplify interoperability. Using technology tools and years of interface development and support experience, Zen’s solution architects and engineers design and build use-case driven solutions for health information exchange. The Zen team solves problems ranging from data acquisition, data normalization and aggregation, and data delivery challenges. Zen’s national client-base leverages Zen’s broad range of consulting services, on-demand engineering, and disruptive Gemini Integration Platform helps overcome interoperability obstacles and creates sustainable health information exchange infrastructures. Learn more at ConsultZen.com.

About Reliance eHealth Collaborative
Reliance eHealth Collaborative is a health information exchange founded in 2011, originally formed by a group of hospitals and health systems in Medford Oregon to solve the problem of sharing data between their organizations and others in the region. Since its inception, Reliance has grown significantly and today has broad participation from the full range of health care settings to include behavioral health and social service organization throughout Oregon, Northern California and Southern Washington. Reliance offers HIE services to include longitudinal community health record access, HIE integrated electronic referrals access, HISP services, behavioral health data integration and exchange and data analytic services. To learn more about Reliance eHealth Collaborative, visit http://www.reliancehie.org.