Orion Health
Rhapsody
Integration
Engine
Complete integration
at the heart of
improved healthcare
Rhapsody Integration Engine has dramatically improved our
productivity, provided us with a much more robust system
and saved us money.
Doug Heisler
Senior Interface Specialist
Iowa Health System
Rhapsody Integration Engine
Complete integration at the heart of improved healthcare
Orion Health™ Rhapsody® Integration Engine is the fastest
and easiest way to achieve interoperability between healthcare
IT systems, regardless of technology or standards. Rhapsody
provides seamless connectivity between legacy and next-
generation health systems, rapidly enabling organizations to
deliver improved patient care and population health. Rhapsody
provides a seamless set of tools to simplify healthcare
integration and is easily extensible to meet the requirements
of each unique healthcare environment.
Rhapsody simplifies complex connectivity across hospitals
and health systems, between healthcare applications and
medical devices, providing complete and reliable integration
to enable high-quality patient care.
With its inherent knowledge of healthcare data and ability
to support the latest healthcare standards (HL7, HIPAA, IHE
and many more), Rhapsody can be used across all types of
healthcare organizations. Its flexible and powerful tools are
easy to learn, easy to maintain and can solve any healthcare
integration challenge. Rhapsody is used by small community
facilities as a ‘black box,’ large-scale enterprises as a
healthcare service bus and everything in between.
Rhapsody is designed with the user in mind, featuring
drag-and-drop development and point-and-click
configuration. It provides the full functionality required for
complex healthcare integration, without requiring expert
development skills.
Rhapsody integrates the complexity of the healthcare
environment into one system that is compliant with
security regulations to provide appropriate access to
patient health information.
KEY BENEFITS
Rhapsody provides comprehensive support for a
vast range of communication protocols and message
formats—ensuring connectivity between healthcare
information systems. Rhapsody’s advanced yet user-
friendly features help interface analysts and hospital
IT administrators reduce their workload while meeting
complex technical challenges. Rhapsody simplifies
complex connectivity, offering a number of benefits
including:
• Scalable – Rhapsody is proven to be extremely
scalable and supports a number of high-availability
configurations, ensuring longevity and reliability as
your organization grows and develops.
• Saves Money – Lower your training and
maintenance costs by using Rhapsody’s native
development tools to embed formatted
documentation directly into your configuration.
the conditions.
• Efficient – A secure, strong and highly efficient
system saves time and money, delivering rapid return
on investment and dramatically improving healthcare
experiences for providers and patients.
• Fast and Agile – Out-of-the-box standards support
and fast integration times mean projects will be
completed faster and require less maintenance. Users
work faster and messages flow faster with Rhapsody’s
optimized user interfaces, configuration management
and high-performance messaging engine.
• Flexible – Improve productivity and save money by
using Rhapsody to connect to anything, from legacy
systems to those based on the latest healthcare
standards – be they internal, regional or national
systems. You can even use Rhapsody to enable web
services in your own legacy systems.
• Reliable – Losing messages in a healthcare
environment is not an option. Rhapsody guarantees
message delivery no matter what
• Enables Rapid Deployment – Rhapsody installation
and configurations are fast and simple, enabling fast,
inexpensive deployment of configured engines.
HEALTHCARE SPECIFIC
With a presence in more than 30 countries, Rhapsody is
the world leading healthcare-dedicated integration engine,
providing the advanced transformation and message
management capabilities needed to tackle any information
exchange challenges.
Rhapsody is used across the U.S. by hospitals and health
systems, health information exchanges (HIE), nearly all state
health departments, federal public health organizations
including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
Original Equipment Manufacturers partners.
HIEs and Regional Data Exchange
Rhapsody allows the interoperable sharing of patient data
across HIEs, EMRs and regional facilities in a standardized
and secure manner. Standards-based support and scalability
allow Rhapsody to provide integration to individual EMR
systems, or provide a messaging structure for both federated
and centralized exchange models.
OEMs
Several major healthcare software vendors use Rhapsody
to provide integration between their products and other
healthcare systems. When embedded in their product
offerings, the solution offers flexible messaging capabilities
with no reliance on facility staff or technology. Additionally,
Rhapsody can be custom branded and improves operational
management and error handling with its monitoring
Application Programming Interface.
Public Health
Rhapsody is the clear leader in public health surveillance.
The CDC and almost all U.S. states use Rhapsody to receive
electronic public health reports from laboratories and other
facilities for their surveillance systems. Rhapsody’s managed
lookup tables and advanced security make the key tasks of
code standardization and secure transportation much less of
a challenge.
Hospitals
Rhapsody’s intuitiveness and ease of use provide hospital IT
teams with the tools to take control of their own integration,
keeping knowledge within the organization. Whether the
goal is to provide integration between internal systems,
or to integrate with external systems as part of a regional
solution, Rhapsody provides the tools out-of-the-box.
The elegance of the system allows new integration to be
developed quickly and the flexible notifications ensure that
Rhapsody continues to monitor and alert any issues 24
hours a day, seven days a week.
Working with Orion Health, we will be
able to better support our customers and
help them achieve their healthcare IT
goals by establishing interoperable health
information systems.
Dale Wiggins
CTO, Patient Care and Clinical Informatics
Philips Healthcare
For more information visit
www.orionhealth.com/rhapsody
inquiries@orionhealth.com
Rhapsody Integration Engine is intended only for the electronic transfer, storage, or display of medical device data, or the electronic conversion of such data from one format to another in accordance
with a preset specification as specified in the product manual and/or related documentation. Rhapsody Integration Engine is not intended to be used for active patient monitoring, controlling or
altering the functions or parameters of any medical device, or any other purpose relating to data obtained directly or indirectly from a medical device other than the transfer, storage, and conversion
of such data from one format to another in accordance with preset specifications.
Rhapsody™ is a registered trademark of Orion Health™ Limited Manufactured in New Zealand, September 2012, by Orion Health Limited. Rhapsody Integration Engine™ is not intended to be used for
diagnostic purposes, or to replace clinical judgment or responsibilities.
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