In a speech at the HIMSS conference in Dallas, TX, David Brailer, MD PhD, President Bush’s National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, reiterated his position that bringing an EHR into the practices of U.S. physicians is a high priority goal.

Dr. Brailer said, “As you know, we have articulated four overarching goals for health IT. Many of you have heard these, but I want to review them so that we can always keep ourselves focused on the basics. Goal 1: ‘Inform Clinical Practice.’ Informing clinical practice is fundamental to improving care and making healthcare delivery more efficient. This goal centers around efforts to bring electronic health records directly into clinical practice. These tools will reduce medical errors and duplicative work, and enable clinicians to focus their efforts more directly on improved patient care.”

Dr. Brailer went on to say that all of these initiatives will fail unless there is a robust set of tools to connect the hundreds of thousands of existing legacy systems to this new health information exchange.

Hilgraeve’s HyperSend PDX provides this set of tools today.

Hilgraeve emerged as a cutting edge company and its product HyperSend PDX as a leading, secure electronic data transmission technology, in part, as the result of HIPAA. The “PDX” in HyperSend PDX stands for Patient Data eXtraction. HyperSend PDX is a powerful new extension of HyperSend technology. “We have refocused our mission” says, Jeff Beamsley, Hilgraeve’s president. “Though HyperSend remains a tool in our kit to create solutions, our mission with HyperSend PDX is much broader – to connect uncooperative systems and to do that securely.”

Hilgraeve’s newest application has the potential to serve various healthcare interests, particularly those that rely upon providing services to physicians’ offices. Clinical laboratories need accurate, timely patient demographic information in order to properly process the tests requested by the physicians. Therefore, tremendous efficiencies are gained by automating the clinical order entry process.

“We use the secure connectivity of HyperSend PDX to connect the physicians’ practice management systems to complement our Web-Based Order Entry and Results Reporting System. In addition to the secure connection, HyperSend PDX pushes the results into the physicians’ EHRs. Because we need to integrate with a multitude of physician office vendors, Hilgraeve’s technology has enabled us to offer a cost-effective, timely solution to our clients” said Jack Redding, vice president of Labtest Systems, Inc. (www.labtest.com, 866-LABTEST).

“HyperSend provides a secure communications channel that allows us to receive up-to date patient data which translates into clean requisitions for our clients’ laboratory. This reduces keying errors, increases throughput and improves the quality of the laboratory services of our clients. This has given our laboratory clients a significant advantage in a highly competitive market,” Mr. Redding continued.

About Hilgraeve, Inc.
Hilgraeve, Inc. is a leader in secure Internet communications software with over twenty-five years of experience. Hilgraeve’s HyperTerminal is on more than 50 million desktops as a standard feature within all Microsoft Windows products since Windows 95. Their new HyperSend family of products connects uncooperative systems. In Healthcare an inefficient antiquated infrastructure wastes an estimated $300 Billion/year. The leaders in building a new interconnected healthcare system are turning to Hilgraeve to solve the impossible problem of extending that system to 200,000 physician offices. For more information, please visit www.hypersend.com or www.hilgraeve.com.

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