CareCom and J2 Interactive announce the launch of their partnership with an exciting new offering. The HealthTerm® semantics platform can be deployed as J2 Managed Terminology, which is a cloud-based solution that offers the power of a terminology platform as a cost-effective managed service. With this offering, healthcare organizations will be able to leverage an established solution to create a single source of truth for enterprise-wide semantic interoperability.
Brooklyn, NY December 1, 2020—Global terminology solution vendor CareCom, has announced a strategic partnership with award-winning healthcare IT firm J2 Interactive. Leveraging CareCom’s industry-acclaimed terminology solution HealthTerm® with its library of pre-built semantic code systems and subsets, J2 Managed Terminology will deliver cloud-hosted, best-of-breed clinical terminology services to provider networks, payers, health information exchanges, and software vendors serving the healthcare industry.
CareCom has long been involved in the semantic coding needs of the global healthcare community. Adding the J2 Managed Terminology solution will address services and hosting components of the semantic mapping needs of healthcare organizations that send and receive clinical data containing standardized clinical codes such as ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED-CT, and RxNorm. Providing the J2 service in the cloud empowers clients through a hassle-free deployment model and access to not only CareCom’s application expertise, but J2’s hands-on analysis, guidance, and subject matter expertise.
“Working with J2 Interactive and its global approach aligns with CareCom’s vision to offer HealthTerm to a wider range of healthcare organizations,” said Jacob Boye Hansen, CEO & Founder of CareCom. “Together we are able to provide true semantic interoperability in large-scale projects providing solutions for population health, HIEs, payers, providers, and public health organizations, to name a few.
“As our exclusive hosting partner, J2 Interactive brings ease and cost containment for large and small organizations alike. Having J2 as our partner brings additional support and local presence for not only technical issues but clinical mapping support as well. This wide range of offerings helps our current and future clients integrate the HealthTerm terminology solution quickly and successfully.”
“Partnering with CareCom will enable us to eliminate the worry and uncertainty commonly associated with one of the most pressing challenges our clients face,” adds J2 co-founder and CEO Lou LaRocca. “By leveraging HealthTerm, J2 is able to help healthcare organizations achieve true data normalization across highly complex networks of connected systems. The J2 Managed Terminology solution maximizes the value of our customers’ investment in interoperability by ensuring the accuracy of each patient’s clinical record and enabling them to trust their population health reporting.”
In addition to the existing CareCom portfolio, the managed service is available to clients today, and includes:
- Fully managed SaaS offering for a simple monthly fee
- Guided setup and initial configuration
- More than 200 up-to-date libraries for standard code systems (ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED-CT, etc.)
- Ability to create custom subsets to meet organizational needs
- Multi-lingual support
- Tools for custom and automated terminology mapping
- System monitoring and maintenance
- Access to experienced clinical informaticists to address unique implementation requirements
About CareCom
CareCom U.S. is a subsidiary of the Danish software company CareCom A/S, which was founded in 1999. CareCom primarily develops software for the healthcare sector. Since our creation in 1999, we have had the pleasure of collaborating with clients in Canada and the United States, Middle East, China, New Zealand; as well as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and many other European countries. CareCom’s major business area is the provision of solutions that support all aspects of working with healthcare terminologies and classifications. CareCom’s products support the process of establishing semantic interoperability between disparate systems, which we regard as a necessary prerequisite for systems integration. CareCom’s product HealthTerm provides a cost-effective, flexible platform to map and normalize clinical data. For more information about CareCom, visit www.carecom.com or email info@carecom.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About J2 Interactive
J2 Interactive is an award-winning healthcare IT services firm whose deep expertise in application development, interoperability, and analytics drives innovations in health information exchange, master data management, and population health. Founded in 2001, J2 has established a reputation as one of the leading providers of customized technology solutions to hospitals, labs, research centers, and HIEs. Our approach is rooted in a fundamental belief that systems succeed or fail based on how well they serve the people who depend upon them. To learn more, visit www.j2interactive.com and follow us on Twitter @j2_interactive.
For more information, contact:
CareCom:
Tami Jones, Head of Product Solutions, U.S.
taj@carecom.com
(626) 727-3769
J2 Interactive:
Jen Carter, Executive Director of Marketing
jcarter@j2interactive.com
(415) 336-6327