Florida Heal Information Exchange Now Covers Nearly in 5 Patient Beds in the State

Florida Health Information Exchange Now Covers Nearly 1 in 5 Patient Beds in the State Highlights:

University of Florida Health and Florida Hospital Adventist implement Patient Look-Up Service.

Harris-developed service enables timely, secure exchange of patient information.

Service is part of Florida Health Information Exchange.

MELBOURNE, FL/WASHINGTON, July 9, 2013 University of Florida Health and Florida Hospital are now securely exchanging patient health information with the Florida Health Information Exchange (HIE) Patient Look-Up Service developed by Harris Corporation bringing the HIE coverage to about 9,000 patient beds, or nearly 20 percent of patient beds in the state. The service allows healthcare organizations and their affiliated users to query medical records of other participating healthcare organizations for individual patient data. The secure information exchange facilitates patient care, diagnosis, and course of treatment; enhances communications between hospitals, physicians and other providers; and reduces orders for duplicate tests, procedures, and medications. UF Health (formerly UF & Shands) and Florida Hospital (Adventist Health System) join Strategic Health Intelligence and Atlantic Coast HIE, which came online in May 2013. By June 2014, the Florida Health Information Exchange will include up to 20 participating entities across the state, including seven currently in the onboarding phase and eight in the planning phase. The service also will connect to providers outside of Florida through the nationwide eHealth Exchange. The continued expansion of the Patient Look-Up service will lead to better quality healthcare for more Florida citizens and reduce administrative costs for providers from Pensacola to Miami and everywhere in between, said Vishal Agrawal, president, Harris Healthcare Solutions. By securely sharing patient data among a growing number of providers across the state, Harris is giving providers the most complete and current medical record possible when and where its needed at the point of care. A map of the covered area from these four providers can be seen at: https://www.florida-hie.net/plu/. A nationally recognized leader in healthcare IT integration, Harris offers a full range of interoperability solutions, including IT infrastructure and management, clinical workflow, health information exchange and business intelligence. Harris solutions improve healthcare quality, safety, efficiency, cost and outcomes by ensuring that the right information travels, with security and privacy, to the right person, at the right time, on the right device, at the point of care. About Harris Corporation

Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 125 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $5.5 billion of annual revenue and about 15,000 employees including 6,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at harris.com. # # # Contact Information: Sean McCabe

The Pinkston Group for Harris Healthcare

harris@pinkstongroup.com

703-297-4898 Jim Burke

Harris Corporation

jim.burke@harris.com

321-727-9131

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