Oracle Health and InVita Healthcare
Technologies' iReferral℠ API enables a secure
electronic hospital-to-OPO referral process.
GULFPORT, Miss., May 21, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The Memorial Health System (MHS) partnered with
InVita Healthcare Technologies (InVita), Oracle Health, and
Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency (MORA), the federally designated
Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) serving most of the state of
Mississippi, to automate and
enhance the organ and tissue donation process. The collaboration
launched the healthcare interoperability platform
iReferral℠ at two MHS facilities on May 1, 2024.
iReferral℠ allows clinical users of the Oracle
Health Electronic Health Record system to electronically refer
patients who are potential organ and/or tissue donors to InVita's
iTransplant℠ System utilized by MORA.
iReferral℠ replaces the prior time-intensive and
manual telephonic donor referral process and allows the MHS
providers and nurses to focus more time on clinical care while
improving compliance with federal requirements regarding donation
and transplantation.
"Through our pioneering collaboration with InVita Healthcare
Technologies, Oracle Health, and the Mississippi Organ Recovery
Agency, Memorial is proud to lead the way in revolutionizing the
organ and tissue donation process in Mississippi," said Memorial Health System
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Mary Brobst, MSN, RN. "With the launch of
iReferral℠, we're not just streamlining operations;
we're honoring the gift of life, ensuring every opportunity for
patients to become donors while allowing our dedicated healthcare
professionals to focus on what truly matters – delivering
exceptional care."
"When it comes to organ donation, every second counts, yet the
process has remained unnecessarily cumbersome and time intensive,"
said Seema Verma, executive vice
president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences
and former administrator to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare
Services. "Together with Memorial Health System and InVita, we are
automating and accelerating donor referrals to help save lives with
a secure, open, and connected health ecosystem that empowers teams
to provide the best care for their patients."
With more than 100,000 patients on the nation's transplant list
awaiting a life-saving organ, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) regulations mandate hospitals refer all potential
organ and tissue donors to their federally designated OPO. With
each donor having the ability to save up to eight (8) lives through
organ transplantation and enhance over seventy-five (75) or more
through tissue donation, every donation opportunity and donor
referral is of critical importance.
"We are excited to be working with Memorial to roll out the
first iReferral℠ launch in our service area. We
believe this will be a great asset in its ability to ease the
burden on our healthcare providers while allowing MORA to maximize
its impact on those waiting on a lifesaving transplant," said
Haratio Keys, Director of Hospital Development for MORA.
"Congratulations to our partners at MORA and to Memorial Health
on being first in the State," said Wade
Liu, Chief Product Officer of InVita Healthcare
Technologies. "We are proud to support the critical work of
donation and transplantation through the implementation of
iReferral℠ to ensure every family has the
opportunity to donate and save lives."
About MHS | wearememorial.com
Memorial Health System has been serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast
since 1946. Located in Gulfport,
Mississippi, Memorial is a not-for-profit medical complex
jointly owned by the City of
Gulfport and Harrison
County. Memorial includes two hospitals licensed for 328
beds, a state-designated Level II Trauma Center, two nursing
centers, four outpatient surgery centers, satellite outpatient
diagnostic and rehabilitation centers, and more than 100 Memorial
Physician Clinics. Memorial offers several of the region's most
comprehensive clinical programs and medical specialties unique to
the area, including the Coast's only Level III Neonatal ICU and
Mississippi's first
nationally-certified Primary Stroke Center. Visit wearememorial.com
to learn more.
About MORA | msora.org
Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency (MORA) is a not-for-profit
organization whose mission is to save and improve lives through the
gift of organ, eye, and tissue donation. At present, approximately
1,300 Mississippians and 100,000+ Americans need an organ
transplant to survive. A new patient is added to the national
transplant waiting list every 8 minutes and an average of 16 people
die each day awaiting a lifesaving transplant that never comes. One
organ donor can save eight lives and one tissue donor can save or
improve the lives of 75 recipients or more. Registering as an
organ, eye, and tissue donor can be done online in less than two
minutes at www.RegisterMe.org.
About Oracle | oracle.com/health
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About InVita Healthcare Technologies |
invitahealth.com
InVita provides mission-critical and chain-of-custody software
technologies for complex medical, forensic, and community care
environments. InVita's solutions streamline clinical workflows,
optimize supply chains, sample tracking, and visibility across
donation and transplantation, blood and plasma operations, the
tissue and implant lifecycle, and environments spanning DNA and
forensics. InVita continues to expand the iReferral℠ and
iTransplant℠ platforms supporting
nearly 75% of all OPOs in the United States and
used by more than 15,000 medical professionals across
more than 100 organ, tissue, eye, and birth tissue
organizations around the world.
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