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iNTERFACEWARE is committed to simplifying the exchange of electronic healthcare data not only through the provision of industry leading technology, support and service, but also by providing well documented processes and guidelines that fully address the data integration problem. Uniting strong technical ability with intense customer focus, iNTERFACEWARE makes integration easy.

Founded in 1997, iNTERFACEWARE is an HL7 solutions provider with industry-leading technology, trusted business expertise, highly-skilled personnel and a proven track record.

Translator Training in Toronto

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…Try saying that three times fast!

Or better yet:  join us for one of the in-depth Iguana 5 training sessions that we’ve started offering on-site in Toronto.

It’s been a few weeks since we kicked off our inaugural session and I can tell you that the entire experience was a huge success.

Training people is not only about simply showing features, rules or workflow.  It’s really about finding ways to make the content relevant to the problems the participants see in the real world.  That’s why training here at our Toronto office makes for such a complete training experience.  On top of the fantastic curriculum our team has put together, having the training here means access to the various skills and experience the iNTERFACEWARE team has to offer.

With this first session under our belt, we’re now gearing up for a number of Toronto training sessions — which are selling out rather quickly — and we invite all customers and potential customers to contact us to book a spot today.

Understanding the fundamentals of Iguana 5 and the Iguana Translator, along with learning from the experts about ideal implementations, can significantly decrease deployment times and can make the difference between delivering a project over-or-under budget.

Have a look at our training agenda and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Cheers,
-Art

 

 

HIMSS 11 Perspective: Eliot Muir

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Our very own CEO of iNTERFACEWARE, Eliot Muir sat down to talk with HIT Exchange Media at HIMSS 11 to discuss the importance and role of interfacing data systems in HIE with a particular emphasis on CDA.

 

Video Transcript

One of the things we are really kind of excited to look at is seeing the emergence of the CDA as a new business challenge that businesses are facing. I think the first stage of the meaningful use provision has got people generating CDA documents. Now generating a document, there is a fair bit of work in doing it but the real work is going to be when people start having to try to consume CDA documents from other vendors. I think we will get back into the same classic problem that interfaces usually reflect the structure of the databases that they feed from and so there’s going to be the same issues with CDA. So you might have a system that has heavy smoker, light smoker, non-smoker and another system says 5 packs a day, non-smoker, 10 packs and over 50. Invariably data is not stored in compatible formats in databases and that’s always reflected in interfaces. So, it’s going to be interesting in looking to see how as the meaningful use provisions go forward, vendors start having to try to interchange the CDA standard. We are ready to help with that if people are facing that challenge.

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Conversations From HIMSS11

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Now that I’m back and well rested from the whirlwind of HIMSS, I wanted to share some of what I personally experienced at the conference.

Firstly, I was quite taken aback by the overwhelmingly positive response that our new approach to integration received. The unveiling of the Iguana Translator platform was a great success! Out of over 500 people who visited our booth, I can count the number of people who didn’t like our new approach on one hand.

I had a lot of interesting conversations at the show.

I spoke with an integration engineer from Chicago, who had worked with Cloverleaf. She explained to me how her team found that they had much better maintainability and ease of development when they kept to the TCL scripting side of the engine rather than utilizing the graphical mapper. She expressed excitement about the concept of being able to see what code is doing as it’s being written as well as modifying interfaces from within a web browser.

Iguana 4.5 officially released

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In case you haven’t heard or noticed, we removed the beta tag off of Iguana 4.5 today. The entire development team has been anticipating this release for quite some time and we are pleased to officially release it to the public.

Since we released 4.5 in beta two months ago, we’ve done extensive testing to reach our goals for stability and performance. We would also like to thank users who downloaded the beta version and submitted useful feedback.

Some of the key new features in Iguana 4.5 include:

  • FTP Support
  • Faster Log Searching
  • Improved Message Resubmission
  • Enhanced User Management

Prior to the release today, I had the opportunity to hold a webinar to highlight the new features and answer a few questions from those who attended. The 15 minute recorded webinar can be viewed below:

Iguana 4.5 Feature Webinar

I welcome you to view this webinar or schedule a more personalized demo by filling out this form.

As always, the latest release is available from our downloads page here.

Feedback is always welcome.

Cheers,

Nasron

What if… HL7 was truly made easy?

 ·  by Art  · 5 Comments

Today, we here at iNTERFACEWARE are very pleased to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website: http://www.interfaceware.com

The first thing people seem to notice from our website – and the same goes for our appearances at trade shows and other industry events – is our tag line: “HL7 Integration Made Easy“. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had that have started with: “…you had me at Easy!”.

One of the things we’re most proud of here at iNTERFACEWARE is the fact that we’ve been able to make HL7 workable, understandable, implementable, … and even easy for our customers.

For those who are just starting their HL7 explorations and may be wondering, “How do you make HL7 easy?”,  I thought I’d put a new video together to help you get started.

Up for Air after HIMSS

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HIMSS was a blast – I’m just back into the swing of things again in Toronto.  For the last two weeks I’ve been busy interviewing developers – I guess I ought to delegate that task.  But the choice of people you hire seems to be one of the most important things one can do in a software company so I still like to be hands on in this area.  If you know anyone, we’re looking for people with top notch C++ skills and/or web interface AJAX type skillsets (it’s odd to get these two skill sets together so we’ll consider either or).

Thanks to everyone that made the effort to visit us at HIMSS and I apologize for some of you who dropped by when I was busy during demos.  We got a lot more traffic than we anticipated and think most of us didn’t get the time to walk the floor, etc. as much as we hoped.  Next time we’ll staff the booth up more – it felt hard to step away.

I guess for me it was a clear validation we’d picked the right strategy with our focus on Iguana 4.0.  Over the last year and half I spent an awful lot of time talking to customers, understanding where the practical issues occur and figuring out how we could solve them.  Inside the company we spent hours agonizing over the UI and usability issues.  To be honest, I was not certain if customers would value all the effort we put into the product in that area – but to judge from the reaction at HIMSS we got an overwhelming vote of confidence.

Leaving for HIMSS

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We’re packed and ready to fly to Chicago for HIMSS ’09.  We’ll be presenting the Iguana HL7 Interface Engine v4 from Sunday through Wednesday.   So, if you’re in town – and at the conference – why not stop by booth #4909 and spend a little time with us?

Whether you’re coming to see the new product, speak a little HL7 or just meet some of the members of the iNTERFACEWARE team, we look forward to seeing and meeting many of you there.