A series of press releases and appearances are listed below to provide you with more information about Intalgent's recent activities.
Intalgent Ensures Physicians Maintain Access to Patient Data
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (May 10th, 2005) -- When John Britton, Director of Information Systems at Fisher-Titus Medical Center (FTMC), learned that Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services was no longer supporting SMS PhysicianConnect™, he knew he had to act fast. In six years the FTMC physicians’ network had created nearly one million patient records with the application. After realizing no off-the-shelf solution would allow his staff to easily migrate the information to a new electronic medical record (EMR), Britton contacted Intalgent.
“We knew that the clinical data was not conducive to being converted to another program,” said Britton. “Our initial thinking was to build another system, but Intalgent suggested a more efficient and cost effective solution.”
“After some initial investigation, we didn’t see the point in creating another application and system that FTMC would need to develop, manage, and maintain,” said Jeff Gunther, Intalgent’s President.
Furthermore, some physicians did not want to deploy the new EMR format, but rather wanted to maintain paper records for their patients. It was critical that all physicians be able to access their patients’ historical and clinical information.
The solution, which was released to physicians in early May 2005, is a small footprint, Java application that extracts a patient’s data, including demographic data, diagnostic reports, scanned documents, and radiology images from the existing repositories and dynamically creates an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file. A physician can then attach the PDF file to a patient’s new EMR, or simply print out the document for inclusion in a paper file.
“We chose the PDF standard for its reliable, cross-platform format.” said Gunther. “In addition, the read-only attributes of a PDF ensure the data is secure and can not be modified.”
“Our physicians are very excited about the simplicity of the solution,” said Britton. “Intalgent’s innovative thinking about how to solve our problem had made this project a success.”
About Intalgent
Intalgent is an innovative technology organization that specializes in software and system development and management. Intalgent focuses on the practical application of new and emerging technologies to develop custom solutions for its customers. Intalgent is a privately held Limited Liability Corporation headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.
About Fisher-Titus Medical Center
As the largest and most comprehensive health care provider in Huron County, Ohio, Fisher-Titus supports 20 affiliated physicians in remote offices, a nursing home, an assisted living facility, and a host of other programs and services for more than 4,000 community members who turn to Fisher-Titus each month for their health care needs.
"Intalgent's innovative thinking about how to solve our problem has made this project a success."
John Britton, Information Systems Director,
Fisher-Titus Medical Center