Surgical Information Systems (SIS) has been focused on interoperability since its inception. We are proud to be a leader in recognizing and providing full software interoperability to enable hospital information to flow effortlessly with easy-to-integrate solutions.
With this focus, SIS works hard to ensure future regulations will ultimately improve care quality and guarantee our clients’ success. The SIS team actively participates in the leading organizations involved in formulating these regulations. In addition, we are one of the few vendors that sit directly at the table where important topics are discussed and decisions are made. The SIS commitment to interoperability will ensure our clients’ success and help them build a meaningful electronic health record.
Below is a list of some of the partnerships and activities that SIS leads or is involved in to help shape the standards around interoperability and ultimately improve patient care.
With this focus, SIS works hard to ensure future regulations will ultimately improve care quality and guarantee our clients’ success. The SIS team actively participates in the leading organizations involved in formulating these regulations. In addition, we are one of the few vendors that sit directly at the table where important topics are discussed and decisions are made. The SIS commitment to interoperability will ensure our clients’ success and help them build a meaningful electronic health record.
Below is a list of some of the partnerships and activities that SIS leads or is involved in to help shape the standards around interoperability and ultimately improve patient care.
HITSP Member 
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) is a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors designed to achieve a common set of standards for enabling and supporting widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications.
As a member of this panel, SIS is working to ensure the development of a standards-based network will support the nationwide exchange of healthcare data, making electronic health records more easily accessible and transferable – while also protecting the security and privacy of personal data. Through our participation, SIS receives first-hand knowledge of the standards and regulations as they are developed. This knowledge provides us with the expertise to guide our clients through the complexities of the impending changes and allows us to develop and deliver a solution that will meet the future needs of our clients.
As a member of this panel, SIS is working to ensure the development of a standards-based network will support the nationwide exchange of healthcare data, making electronic health records more easily accessible and transferable – while also protecting the security and privacy of personal data. Through our participation, SIS receives first-hand knowledge of the standards and regulations as they are developed. This knowledge provides us with the expertise to guide our clients through the complexities of the impending changes and allows us to develop and deliver a solution that will meet the future needs of our clients.
ONC Policy and Standards Committee
- Health IT Standards Committee is charged with making recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT) on standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of health information.
- Health IT Policy Committee will make recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT) on a policy framework for the development and adoption of a nationwide health information infrastructure, including standards for the exchange of patient medical information. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides that the HIT Policy Committee shall at least make recommendations on standards, implementation specifications, and certifications criteria in eight specific areas.
SIS development and product management experts regularly attend the committee meetings. We are monitoring and adapting to the committee recommendations as they are presented and applicable to the SIS Solution.
IHE Planning Committee Member, Patient Care Devices (PCD) & IHE Technical Committee Member, Patient Care Devices
The IHE domain committees are responsible for developing standards for connectivity.
The PCD committee is comprised of users and developers of medical devices/systems and information systems. They address the integration of medical devices into the healthcare enterprise, from point-of-care to the electronic health record (EHR); the goal being to significantly improve patient safety and quality of care.
SIS is helping define the standards that the government will use for 2015 meaningful use criteria for device connectivity.
The PCD committee is comprised of users and developers of medical devices/systems and information systems. They address the integration of medical devices into the healthcare enterprise, from point-of-care to the electronic health record (EHR); the goal being to significantly improve patient safety and quality of care.
SIS is helping define the standards that the government will use for 2015 meaningful use criteria for device connectivity.
IHE North America Connectathon Participant
Optimal patient care requires that care providers and patients be able to create, manage and access comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs) efficiently and securely. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) accelerates the adoption of EHRs by improving the exchange of information among healthcare systems. Its goal is to improve the quality, efficiency and safety of clinical care by making relevant health information conveniently accessible to patients and authorized care providers.
The IHE North America Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry's largest interoperability testing event. The full range of profiles defined in the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Technical Frameworks are tested each year in a carefully organized and supervised environment involving more than 70 vendors and more than 130 healthcare IT systems. Participants' systems exchange information with systems from many other participating organizations, performing all of the transactions required for the roles they have selected, in support of defined clinical functions.
SIS Anesthesia successfully completed the 2009 week long Connectathon. In doing so, it proved its capability to transmit a patient’s data securely to the right physician or system at the right time in the correct format.
The IHE North America Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry's largest interoperability testing event. The full range of profiles defined in the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Technical Frameworks are tested each year in a carefully organized and supervised environment involving more than 70 vendors and more than 130 healthcare IT systems. Participants' systems exchange information with systems from many other participating organizations, performing all of the transactions required for the roles they have selected, in support of defined clinical functions.
SIS Anesthesia successfully completed the 2009 week long Connectathon. In doing so, it proved its capability to transmit a patient’s data securely to the right physician or system at the right time in the correct format.
IHE Device Point-of-care Integration (DPI) Working Group Member
As a subgroup of the PCD committee, the DPI working group brings focus on device connectivity around a patient-centric point-of-care, including "first link" interfaces between devices or a device manager / supervisor system.
HIMSS Interoperability Showcase Participant
During the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Interoperability Showcase, vendors and organizations come together to demonstrate standards-based health IT applications in a venue that simulates typical healthcare settings. This event offers a real-world, real-time demonstration of today’s complex healthcare environments that are standards-based, primarily utilizing IHE and Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), but also provides an early look at other proven and tested standards.
In 2009, SIS, along with more than 70 clinical information systems, participated to exchange patient health information electronically – from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting – across multiple healthcare enterprises, securely and accurately. We successfully certified on patient administration and device connectivity.
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In 2009, SIS, along with more than 70 clinical information systems, participated to exchange patient health information electronically – from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting – across multiple healthcare enterprises, securely and accurately. We successfully certified on patient administration and device connectivity.
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