Our Mission
Our mission at J P Systems is to standardize, manage, and improve the interoperability and usability of data.
Clinical Data Management for Federal Healthcare IT
Our VHA contract at J P Systems, Inc. supports critical patient care and patient safety operations. Our HealthcareInformatics team provides substantive, imperative technical support to several operational VHA patient record systems & the Joint HIE. We have for 9 years performed very highly specialized Clinical Terminology, data standardization, clinical data quality improvement, and enterprise architecture work needed to keep many VHA electronic patient records systems and Joint VA and DoD Health Information Exchange (JHIE) systems functioning properly. We also produce the drug terminology called MED-RT which is distributed all over the country and hosted at NIH.
Health Information Exchange Management for Federal Enterprises
Our Health Informatics and Health Information Exchange management (HIE) work on the VHA Terminology Standards Support contract for the VHA is very complex and requires a large cadre of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Concurrently, our pilot projects with VHA and FDA are groundbreaking as we have designed a way to increase automation of drug pharmacovigilance electronically instead of manually. We also support patient care and patient safety functions by replacing the manual reporting of VHA drug adverse events to the FDA with electronic messages instead of faxed forms.
Our modernization of VHA systems, clinical data quality improvement, and interagency clinical data exchange pilot projects with the FDA and the state immunization exchange program are all critical for VHA patient care operations. We have modernized many VHA systems workflows and have reduced manual labor to save the clinician’s time.
Clinical Data Quality Improvement
Our work in clinical data quality improvement changed the entire world of Healthcare IT as we motivated all major EHR vendors to look closely at the CCDA messages and data they were sending to VHA and analyze and improve them. This affected 22,000 commercial hospitals and clinics who send data directly to VHA.
Standards Based Data Exchange for State Immunization Registry Coordination
We have recently automated the reporting of VHA vaccine administration to all 64 of the state Immunization registries systems (IIS). Our software engineers have also made possible an automated exchange of the immunization data back from the state IIS exchanges directly to VHA. The immunization record is inserted automatically into the VHA patient record systems, so VHA doctors know which vaccines their patients have received just before patients show up for their VHA doctor office visits.
How we do it
By continuously incorporating stakeholder feedback, we deliver faster results for health informatics users. We design systems with de-coupled code modules from back-end databases, enabling reusability and significantly reducing software engineering costs, complexity, and risk.
JPSys actively represents clients at Health Level Seven International (HL7) standards development meetings. We contribute to specifying and developing Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®), a robust standard for exchanging electronic health information. HL7, the organization managing this standard, has recognized JPSys employees Galen Mulroney and Jay Lyle as HL7 Fellows.
We have applied HL7 FHIR to modernize key systems, including:
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Transforming the legacy fax-based VA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ADERS) into an automated, near real-time FHIR messaging system, in compliance with the 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule for FHIR API implementation.
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Delivering a blueprint to the VA Pharmacy Benefits Management office for integrating state immunization registry histories and clinical documents from non-VA providers into their enterprise Pharmacy web application.
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Mapping HL7 FHIR for an Apple Health mobile solution that allows patients to access their clinical health records via smartphones.
We build data exchange systems to be automated, reusable, extensible, and scalable. Our solutions apply IT best practices from requirements definition through user acceptance testing, following the agile Scrum framework and the SAFe methodology for aligning business and technical goals.
J P Systems, Inc. joins Digital WOSB Alliance
JPSys is pleased to announce that we were nominated and accepted into the Digital WOSB Alliance (DWA)! The Digital WOSB Alliance is a non-profit professional alliance that aims to empower and support Women-Owned Small Businesses in the digital industry whose focus is on public service missions. The DWA focuses on community, advocacy and education to provide high quality services to the Federal government. Members are small businesses that are owned and actively led by women.
Learn more about [DWA](https://www.digitalwosballiance.org/).
J P Systems, Inc. Inducted into the Fairfax County Business Hall of Fame
J P Systems, Inc. is among a very small group of companies that have won the Best of Fairfax County Award for fourteen consecutive years. This distinction has qualified J P Systems, Inc. for the 2024 Fairfax County Business Hall of Fame.
J P Systems provides Health Informatics services to Federal clients for increasing clinical data quality and interoperability. We track the latest news and current events on issues relating to standardized data exchange on our LinkedIn feed.
Our Quality Policy
J P Systems is ISO 9001:2015 certified and has established this quality policy to be consistent with the purpose and context of our organization. Our Quality Management System (QMS) provides a framework for the setting and reviewing of corporate objectives. In addition to our commitment to satisfy clients, regulatory and legislative requirements, our commitment to continually improve our management system includes:
Customer Focus: As an organization, we have made a commitment to understand our current and potential customers’ needs, meet their requirements, and strive to exceed their expectations.
Leadership: Our leadership team has committed to creating and maintaining a working environment in which people become fully involved in achieving our objectives. We recognize that people are the essence of any good business and that their full involvement is critical. JPSys understands that a desired result is achieved more efficiently when activities and related resources are managed as a process or series of interconnected processes.
Improvement: JPSys has committed to achieving continual improvement across all aspects of our quality management system; it is one of our main annual objectives. Evidence-based decision making: Our leadership is dedicated to making decisions relating to our QMS following an analysis of relevant data.
Relationship Management: We recognize that an organization and the relationship it has with its external providers are interdependent and a mutually beneficial relationship enhances the ability of both to create value. Our policy is also to meet the requirements of other interested parties and to address our regulatory and legislative responsibilities.
About our Professional Healthcare IT Services
CELEBRATING OVER 40 YEARS!
Jackie Mulrooney founded J P Systems in 1983 to provide software services to commercial and federal clients. In 1998, Galen Mulrooney joined the company. Then, the focus shifted to Federal healthcare IT, data architecture, data quality improvement and clinical terminology services. J P Systems is an award-winning certified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) and a prime contractor to the Federal government.
We provide professional services for enterprise-wide coordination of clinical data interoperability and standardized data exchange. Furthermore, we specialize in HL7 data standards development, standardized reference terminologies, stakeholder engagement, and data modeling.
Proper data interoperability planning enables the clinical data to move safely and reliably. Patient safety requires that clinical data moves at the speed of care. It is the nature of Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) systems to code medical data for storage in the patient records. Often, local codes are used that are not understandable or usable if the data is sent to a different hospital or Federal agency. We help clients to standardize the coding of data so that data can be sent outside of their organization. To do so, we map local codes to international standardized reference terminologies.
WHY HEALTHCARE DATA NEEDS TO MOVE
Clinical data must move at the speed of care. This video is a personal story of why clinical data exchange is so important to us at JPSys. In 2003, nursing homes did not communicate properly with hospitals to ensure continuity of care for patients. The prescriptions from the hospital did not transmit to the nursing homes readily. The delayed care meant that patients had to wait to be seen by the doctor before they could be given any medications. As a result of the data not traveling with them, the patients would go into withdrawal from not being able to get their medicine in a timely manner.
Federal Healthcare IT Professional Services
Since 1983, we have helped our Federal clients to better define and design their enterprise data architectures.
Our focus is on data architecture for Federal healthcare IT systems. We specialize in professional services for clinical data management. Most importantly, our architects plan how to support the meaningful clinical data exchange between enterprises. We provide consulting services for all aspects of data interoperability, including standardized clinical terminologies.
Our employees adhere to strict professional codes of conduct in accordance with our Core Values. Customer service is the number one focus of our Quality Management System.
JPSys Services
Better Data, Better Patient Care, Better Outcomes
