Archive for the ‘Integration Insights’ Category

Athenahealth was right in the middle of the biggest industry news stories to come out of HIMSS13. While the CommonWell Health Alliance announcement sucked the air out of every other announcement at the conference, athenahealth’s Healthcare Information Technology Code of Conduct proposed a set of five principles they hope can “move the industry foward,” including [...]

A new term spreading (almost like fire) through the healthcare interoperability world is HL7 FHIR, pronounced as “fire.” Here are the Top 5 things I think you should know about this upcoming standard many hope will help solve many current issues in interoperability: FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resource. FHIR combines the best features [...]

It’s good to look back and evaluate your work, to see what worked and what steps can be taken to improve in the future. Looking back on 2012, I have to say that it was a great year for our blog. The number of visitors to our site increased 33% from 2011. While I have [...]

In the Healthcare Interoperability Glossary, interoperability is defined as “The ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged.” Even with the industry’s current focus on health information exchange and electronic health records, a truly interoperable healthcare system can at times seem as likely [...]

The IHE Connectathon event for 2012 was held in Chicago last week. Connectathon allows vendors from healthcare IT to test their ability to support IHE profiles, which are critical to standardizing communications across HIEs, ACOs, and across regions. Here are a few observations from my first-time participation at Connectathon: Industry Buy-in It was apparent from [...]

CCR … I’m sure there are days for those who work in Health IT and with the various health standards  when it would be a nice, mental break if those three letters represented what many recognize it as – Creedence Clearwater Revival. We could all take it easy like Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, roll down [...]

As many in health IT know, medical software implementation specialists often spend a considerable amount of time working on site at the hospital, working hand-in-hand with the facility’s IT staff to ensure their products are working properly and to make sure the client has a good understand of how the technology can be used. Bernard [...]

As a service provider, you might have requested documentation from a vendor. As a vendor, you may be searching for documentation regarding a specific client install. Either way, you are looking for some information that helps you do your job (i.e., implementing, supporting, changing or fixing an interface). To that end, what is the documentation [...]

Each week, CMIO Magazine publishes a note from the editor, Mary Stevens, who takes the opportunity to comment on current events and trends in the healthcare IT industry. This past week, Stevens reflected upon an interview with Dr. David Blumenthal from the Office of the National Coordinator on health IT initiatives and the anticipated direction [...]

February is almost here and to start things off, HL7 Standards is pleased to announce it will host Grand Rounds Vol. 7 No. 19 on Tuesday, February 1, 2011. For those unfamiliar with the program, Grand Rounds is a weekly blog sharing movement for health care professionals (physicians, nurses, CIOs, students, researchers, etc.) to share [...]