Lawson is adding integration to its applications, with the goal of moving its business intelligence solutions deeper into the healthcare landscape.
The St. Paul, Minn.-based software company is acquiring Healthvision, an Irving, Texas-based provider of application integration technology. Of particular interest to the company is Healthvision’s Cloverleaf product, which enables hospitals to connect software applications.
Jim Catalino, general manager and senior vice president for Lawson Healthcare, said the acquisition fits nicely into the company’s client base, which includes 30 of the top 50 IDNs in the nation. Combining Cloverleaf with Lawson applications, he said, allows the company to push data that normally resides within a hospital out to physician practices, and vice versa.
“It substantially enhances our ability to link clinical information and financial information,” he said.
“Reducing healthcare costs is a priority for everyone,” added Harry Debes, Lawson’s president and chief executive officer. “Healthvision’s solutions address that challenge by giving our healthcare customers access to financial, operational and clinical information across their enterprise. When their systems are connected and data can flow between systems, substantial benefits result. Clinicians can better coordinate patient care, operational processes become more efficient, and revenue activities are processed smoothly and at a lower cost.”
Along with Cloverleaf, Healthvision offers the MediSuite platform, which targets the Canadian market with provider applications for laboratories, electronic health records, patient management, clinical systems and public health and community care. The company’s health information exchange platform links the entire network, from payers to patients.
“Healthvision customers get the strength, commitment and leadership of Lawson not only to the healthcare industry but also to the entire suite of Healthvision products,” said Carolyn Jolley, Healthvision’s senior vice president of client services. “Lawson customers can now address their integration challenges, and on the strategic level, this acquisition also gives Lawson and Healthvision’s customers the solid system integration and application foundation to create the exchange of healthcare information demanded by both U.S. healthcare reform and the Canadian government.”