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April 29, 2011

Healthcare Technology and News: Corepoint Health and Champion Medical Launch Integrated Healthcare Solution


Corepoint Health, specializing in healthcare integration software, and Champion Medical Technologies, announced a comprehensive integration solution for health care facilities that require seamless integration with Champion Medical Technology applications like GraftTracker and UDITracker.

Explaining the solution, Champion Medical an applied information technology company providing innovative tissue and implant tracking said that case entry data is transmitted from Corepoint Integration Engine directly into the GraftTracker and UDITracker applications via a secure Web services protocol.

In a release, Peter Casady, CEO of Champion said, “Champion Medical Technologies is excited to offer this complete integration solution to our customers. Corepoint Health provides a seamless integration that completely automates data transfer to our medical device tracking software. Nurses working in the operating room can now spend more time on patient care and less time documenting implant data.”

Corepoint Health offers an integration platform that can easily develop and test interfaces and facilitate communication of electronic data between healthcare applications. In case of applications like GraftTracker and UDITracker, a straightforward HL7 integration solution is present which also leverages Web services-based communication solutions for their health care customers.

Through HL7 integration patient data is delivered from a customer’s surgery or operating room application to UDITracker or GraftTracker. After which data changes are mapped with Corepoint Integration Engine and then communicated directly into Champion Medical Technologies’ application through Web services.

Champion Medical Technologies and Corepoint Health are striving to deliver a cost-effective, robust integration solution for customers leveraging HL7 standards, XML, and other data formats.

Phil Guy, CEO of Corepoint Health said, “A smooth data flow between applications is essential in today’s healthcare application environments. Champion Medical Technologies is a leader in providing valuable tissue and implant tracking applications for hospitals, and we are proud to work closely with them in delivering a complete integration solution which leverages a web services approach and offers their customers greater flexibility in meeting their seamless data flow requirements.”

In January 2011 Corepoint Health successfully completed interoperability certification testing of Corepoint Integration Engine at the North American Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon in Chicago.


Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves
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