Products: software for sharing clinical data

Forcare offers a full suite of software products to realize health information exchanges - solutions for sharing clinical information. Our modular product portfolio is based on the principles of the IHE XDS – Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing – technical framework and helps you connect (legacy) information systems in a modern document sharing infrastructure.

We connect your existing clinical IT systems

Clinical documents are provided by existing clinical IT systems such as HIS, Lab, RIS, PACS or any departmental system that has a need to share or collect information from patients. Forcare helps you to disclose and connect these systems. Examples of “documents” are:

Radiology reports.
Lab reports.
Images (radiology, cardiology, any)
ECGs.
Medical summaries (referral notes, etc.).

Our solutions for clinical information sharing

Forcare's product suite consists of five key components, that together form a complete modular IHE XDS infrastructure for clinical information sharing.

Please read about our latest release for new functionality in XDS-based health information exchange.

	Patient-centric registry. ForIndex keeps track of meta-data for clinical documents to be shared. This way, a patient-centric reference index of available information is created.
	Clinical document repository. ForStore stores and archives documents created by clinical source systems. After receiving documents it will register the availability and format of these documents with the central registry.
	Document access. ForView is a web-based viewer that alows clinicians access to all documents registered in forIndex. It provides various ways to search for information, presents documents in a historical overview and allows access to documents with a simple mouse click. ForView can easily be integrated in your local EMR environment and is highly customizable. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer as well as Mozilla Firefox are supported.
	Easy to connect clinical systems. ForConnect offers connectivity to existing clinical information systems such as HIS, RIS and PACS, using standard communication standards like DICOM, HL7 and PDF. ForConnect acts as a broker to "XDS-enable" your existing information systems.
	Audits and Logging. ForAudit offers standardized logging of all relevant activity in the connected systems, providing detailed information on who accessed what information at what time. This ensures accountability.
	Cross-Community Access to patient information. ForBridge enables your XDS-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) network to access patient information that resides outside your home community. ForBridge is based on the Cross-Community Access (XCA) Profile from the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) organization.

Independently or jointly usable in any IHE XDS system

All Forcare components can work indepently and interface to any IHE XDS infrastructure. When deployed jointly, the Forcare components provide a state-of-the-art IHE XDS solution suite that meets today's market needs for cross-enterprise sharing of clinical information.

In addition to our IHE XDS-based sofware component Forcare offers:

Easy Health Information Exchange setup with forShare

forShare - XDS in a box. ForShare bundles Forcare’s XDS component in a (virtual) server appliance. With forShare, setting up an XDS-based Health Information Exchange becomes simple and easy.

XDS Software Development Kit

Forcare offers an XDS-based Software Development Kit (XDK) to allow for developing XDS interfaces on existing information systems.