Wednesday, Eclipsys Corp. (ECLP) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said they have signed an alliance agreement to deliver the choice and flexibility that hospitals need and want to improve health information technology or HIT efficiencies.
Breaking with the tradition of closed, proprietary systems, the two companies will offer the market tightly integrated health IT solutions designed to make it easy for physicians, nurses and hospital administrators to gain insights from data aggregated from multiple clinical and financial systems across the hospital. The solutions also will support clinicians in acting upon a more complete health record.
Under the alliance agreement, the companies plan to integrate key components of Eclipsys' industry-leading Sunrise Enterprisesuite of integrated software applications with Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System or UIS, a data aggregation platform that integrates vast amounts of clinical, administrative and financial data from disparate information systems.
The integration will serve to further enhance the analytic capabilities Eclipsys can provide to its clients, while making it easier for any health care organization to connect disparate data repositories, opening up a whole new paradigm of data analysis and clinical and financial uses.
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