Informatics: HIMSS10 Covisint

Eric Fishman, MD speaks to Brett Furst, Vice President of Healthcare for Covisint. Mr. Furst discusses Covisints web-based cloud computing services. Covisint provides one uniform platform as a service to merge different applications within the cloud to enhance interoperability and messaging of information pertinent to healthcare. Mr. Furst explains how Covisints app cloud can help physicians assess lab data, disease registries, radiology/imaging, and other personal health information data. In addition, Covisints platform is also useful to health system administrators, with capabilities to capture data for revenue cycle management, as one example. Dr. Fishman and Mr. Furst also talk about Covisints recent partnerships with the AMA and AT&T. With these partnerships, Covisints platform as a service will assist both the AMA and AT&T promote Health IT and their individual products/services.