DbMotion
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dbMotion is a vendor of health Interoperability
solutions for connected healthcare that enable healthcare organizations to meaningfully integrate and leverage their information assets. dbMotion facilitates interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) for health information networks and integrated healthcare delivery systems. The service-oriented architecture
(SOA) based dbMotionTM Solution gives caregivers and information systems secure access to an integrated patient record composed from a patient's medical data maintained at facilities that are otherwise unconnected or have no common technology through which to share data, without requiring the replacement of existing information systems. dbMotion can interoperate with multiple different vendor products and the architecture’s modularity allows for multiple approaches to sharing medical information e.g. centralized, distributed/federated or any hybrid format.
dbMotion can dovetail the clinical vocabulary, or semantics, from disparate systems from different vendors, together, making it possible to view all medication orders across ICU, med/surg, and ambulatory environments, for example, on a single screen. The use of interoperability can enhance efficiency and improve quality of care.
dbMotion has been implemented at UPMC
, UMass
, Clalit
, as well as other hospitals and medical networks.
's business intelligence solutions unit, which developed the dbMotion prodcut as an innovative healthcare software solution. In 2004 dbMotion was established as an independent company, and in January 2007 Ness Technologies
announced the sale of its ownership interest in dbMotion.
Interoperability
Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together . The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social, political, and organizational factors that impact system to...
solutions for connected healthcare that enable healthcare organizations to meaningfully integrate and leverage their information assets. dbMotion facilitates interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) for health information networks and integrated healthcare delivery systems. The service-oriented architecture
Service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
(SOA) based dbMotionTM Solution gives caregivers and information systems secure access to an integrated patient record composed from a patient's medical data maintained at facilities that are otherwise unconnected or have no common technology through which to share data, without requiring the replacement of existing information systems. dbMotion can interoperate with multiple different vendor products and the architecture’s modularity allows for multiple approaches to sharing medical information e.g. centralized, distributed/federated or any hybrid format.
dbMotion can dovetail the clinical vocabulary, or semantics, from disparate systems from different vendors, together, making it possible to view all medication orders across ICU, med/surg, and ambulatory environments, for example, on a single screen. The use of interoperability can enhance efficiency and improve quality of care.
dbMotion has been implemented at UPMC
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is an $9 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise that has 54,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 4,200 licensed beds, 400 outpatient sites and doctors’ offices, a 1.5 million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and...
, UMass
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
, Clalit
Clalit
Clalit, also Klalit is one of Israel's leading health service organizations. Widely known as Kupat Holim Clalit, it was established in 1911 as a mutual aid society...
, as well as other hospitals and medical networks.
History
dbMotion was founded in 2000 within Ness TechnologiesNess Technologies
Ness Technologies is an Israel-based global provider of IT services and solutions.-History:Ness Technologies was established in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company provides information technology and business planning services in North America, Europe, the Middle-East, and the Asia Pacific...
's business intelligence solutions unit, which developed the dbMotion prodcut as an innovative healthcare software solution. In 2004 dbMotion was established as an independent company, and in January 2007 Ness Technologies
Ness Technologies
Ness Technologies is an Israel-based global provider of IT services and solutions.-History:Ness Technologies was established in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company provides information technology and business planning services in North America, Europe, the Middle-East, and the Asia Pacific...
announced the sale of its ownership interest in dbMotion.