Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Friday, December 1st, 2006
Posted in Healthcare Integration, HL7 Integration | View Comments
...Alex’s insights were good, and I thought I would share them and some thoughts of how this debunking applies to healthcare integration. As a long time healthcare integration professional, I’m often faced with questions generated both internally... Read entry ⇒
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Posted in Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Standards, Meaningful Use | View Comments
...ited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delive... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Posted in Healthcare IT, HL7 Integration | View Comments
ed The IHE Initiative Worldwide: An Update. During the presentation, he stated “IHE is not a local problem; we are seeing integration problems everywhere. As a result, IHE has been promoted worldwide.” Although the crux of his statement is tru... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Posted in #HITsm, Health care, Social Media | View Comments
“By lowering the learning curve of Twitter with a database of relevant healthcare hashtags to follow, we hope to help new and existing users alike find the conversations and people of interest and importance.” Despite naysayers and laggards, the growth ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Posted in Healthcare Integration, HL7 Integration | View Comments
What job title or job description do you give someone who spends much of their time solving integration issues within a hospital setting? In my opinion it’s pretty telling to see what titles the staff desires — often a mix of two concepts. S... Read entry ⇒
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, HL7 Standards | View Comments
standard that can “reach across the aisle” and reach consensus. Can’t we all just get along in the healthcare integration world? Yes, this is a parody of sorts on healthcare standards, but it is the practical world that we live in. There... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Posted in Healthcare Integration | View Comments
The IHE Connectathon took place last week in Chicago. It is an annual event where Health Information Technology vendors gather to test their adherence to IHE Integration Profiles. The newly-incorporated IHE uses existing HIT standards to develop Integrat... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Posted in Integration Insights, Interview, Radiology IT, Radiology Workflow | View Comments
What has your experience been like using an integration engine? It’s been spectacular. I’ve said it many times before, without the integration engine, we wouldn’t be nearly as successful as we are today. We wouldn’t have nearly the amount of information ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Posted in EMR, Healthcare Integration | View Comments
...to an EMR system, they need to link to the correct patient record. Due to the number of variables, the answer to any healthcare integration challenge is, “it depends.” The following examples provide a couple of options to resolve this patient ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Posted in HL7 Integration | View Comments
Jorge Grillo, who is CIO at Canton-Potsdam Hospital in Potsdam, NY, has been blogging on install Meditech 6.0. In his most excellent 11th installment (posted this week), he discussed two interesting points about integration: One challenge for us right no... Read entry ⇒
