Medical Informatics Engineering
Medical Informatics Engineering offers a Minimally Invasive™ portfolio of products: WebChart (EHR), NoMoreClipBoard (PHR), and Enterprise Health (Occupational Health). These web-based applications can be easily configured to fit practice workflows and individual preferences for a very smooth transition to electronic health records. Click here to learn more about this very different approach.
Long before they were buzzwords, market segments or government incentive programs, concepts like interoperability, data liquidity, patient engagement and meaningful use were fueling innovation at a tiny software development firm tucked in a discrete little corner of northeast Indiana. The visionary – current CEO and Chief Technology Officer, Doug Horner – rounded out his skill set through a partnership with co-founder Eric Jones to build one of the country’s first sustainable HIEs, which is still operating in Indiana today. And from those roots, they built a company that today serves client ranging from family practices to Fortune 100 clients.
As early as 1995, Horner had his head in the “cloud”, and made a bet that health information technology would one day be largely web-based. Bucking the then current and unfortunately continuing trend of proprietary protectionism – creating walled gardens tethered tightly to siloed software solutions – he insisted on and led the effort to develop an innovative, interoperable platform from the ground up.
Horner and his team trailed alongside local physicians, observing their workflows and interactions, their challenges and frustrations. Clinicians were wary of health IT. MIE was undaunted. Over the last 20 years, the company has quietly created a platform that allows different clients in completely different market segments to use the modules appropriate for their use cases, objectives and operations.
Medical Informatics Engineering has a long history in interoperable healthcare data exchange, starting with the development of one of the earliest sustainable HIEs. The Med-Web, a secure, web-based, private communication network enabling healthcare providers to transmit and share electronic information, fueled adoption of electronic health records at a local rate ten times the national average, and continues to support northeast Indiana physicians today.
The company’s development efforts stem from a core philosophy of “cognitive, not clerical” – creating systems and tools that enhance patient interaction and minimize the disruption associated with encounter documentation and administration. As a result, MIE solutions inherently improve practice workflow and efficiency, bolstering the financial performance of the practices and operations they support.
