CreativAxion

OPHelIE®

Open Platform for secure Health Information Exchange

Secure Health Information Exchange

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Communicate with different systems

The best of both worlds

Clinicians want rapid access to all available health data to accelerate their decision-making and properly serve their patients. They want complete, accurate and up-to-date data. And this, by using a single tool; their existing system (their EMR¹, their PMS² or their EHR³) to obtain the consolidated view of the patient file.

Members of healthcare teams and clinicians want to work across disciplines to ensure proper follow-up for their patients. They want to share data, manage it, analyze it and integrate it. In reality, clinicians use different systems, making exchanges and collaborative work difficult: telephone, fax, nothing is truly integrated. And every clinician wants to keep their own system.

At CreativAxion, we believe it is possible to have the best of both worlds! That’s why we created OPHelIE.

OPHelIE allows clinicians to use their local system to manage their patient records AND to communicate with other members of the care team, regardless of the systems they use. The collaboration functionalities are integrated into the local systems in a completely transparent manner and OPHelIE, acting as a federating agent, supports the integration and inter-system interoperability.

“Secure Communication Anywhere” diagram: OPHelIE connects three groups. 1, the healthcare team synergy: pharmacist, hospital, GP, national EHR and more. 2, the patient and caregivers. 3, other authorized actors.
Secure Communication Anywhere: OPHelIE connects the healthcare team, the patient and caregivers, and other authorized actors.
  • ¹ EMR: Electronic Medical Record
  • ² PMS: Pharmacy Management System
  • ³ EHR: Electronic Health Record

OPHelIE® – Secure Health Information Exchange

OPHelIE is an open platform containing a set of services dedicated to the exchange of healthcare information, with particular emphasis on the security and confidentiality of patient’s data.

Services can be integrated into the current systems (EMR, PMS, EHR, etc.)

No additional user interfaces!

This set of services is designed to be integrated into current professionals’ systems – electronic medical records (EMR), pharmacy management systems (PMS), electronic health records (EHR) – therefore leveraging the information assets in place and more specifically in Quebec, the QHR (Quebec Health Record).

Using a REST API based on the FHIR standard significantly speeds up seamless integration of such services.

Secure Communication Anywhere

  • Software as a service (SaaS)
  • REST API to be integrated into local applications (EMR, PMS, EHR)
  • Based on the international FHIR R4 standard, the version adopted across Canada
  • Extension of the HAPI FHIR server, a mature and up-to-date Open-Source server
  • Authentication by OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
  • API documentation and code examples in several languages available on Postman
  • Leverage the Quebec Health Record (QHR)
  • Subscription-based

  • Flexibility, scalability

    REST API architecture

    The REST API architecture provides significant advantages such as standardization, flexibility, scalability and integration. It's all backed up by rich and detailed specification documentation with implementation examples in multiple languages.

  • Standardization, interoperability

    FHIR standard

    The FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard brings major benefits in terms of standardization, interoperability, simplicity and flexibility. FHIR is the interoperability standard adopted by Canada Health Infoway and Québec’s Ministry of Health and Social Services, as well as in many other countries.

  • Examples of code in several languages

    API published with Postman

    The API is documented clearly and comprehensively with Postman, helping understand and facilitate the integration exercise for developers of existing local systems. The use cases refer to the HL7v3 services of the QHR to ensure correct interpretation. Finally, code samples are provided in several languages, at the developers’ choice.

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