Iguana and FHIR: What you Need to Know
What exactly is FHIR? FHIR is the latest standard to be developed under the HL7 organization. Pronounced ‘Fire’ , FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. It is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically and combines the best features from HL7 v2, HL7 v3, and CDA, while also adding several significant improvements over previous […]
5 Tips for Creating a Great Patient Portal Experience
88% of healthcare leaders currently use or have plans to implement a patient portal for their organization. This statistic, courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine, represents a major shift in the way that patients and providers interact when it comes to the delivery of health care. It’s a shift towards digital instead of […]
Pandemic Lends More Urgency Toward Transforming Health Care
There’s no question that the coronavirus pandemic is putting new tensions on an already overstressed healthcare system. In these unprecedented circumstances Telehealth, pop-up testing clinics and non-traditional healthcare options are relieving some of the pressures, while at the same time illuminating the increased importance of interoperability. However, the coronavirus pandemic is potentially putting the brakes […]
Solving Problems Through Interoperability
Although #HIMSS20 has been cancelled, that’s not stopping iNTERFACEWARE from talking about interoperability. Instead of missing the opportunity to connect with healthcare professionals, key iFW team members decided to create a virtual booth. This exclusive roundtable discussion covers many of the common themes that are discussed during the conference. Eliot Muir, CEO, Toni Skokovic, VP Operations, and Casey Trauer, Director of […]
The Best of 2019: iNTERFACEWARE’s 3 Most Popular Blogs
iNTERFACEWARE’s readers have spoken. Here are your choices for the best blogs of 2019: Coming in at number one, Scaling Integrations with APIs will help you make sense of the challenges that come with a business as the number of systems, departments, and clients grow. Although application programming interfaces are a set of protocols that make connections easier, there […]
Mastering Interfacing Reliability and Speed – Key To A Good Night’s Sleep
This much is true – you can never be too fast or reliable when it comes to clinical interfaces. Quite often, these two aspects of a clinical integration project are seen at odds with each other. But, a deliberate choice of approach and platform can drive both in alignment. An integration platform needs to balance […]
The Fax of Life
It’s time to put aside obsolete technology and get systems to talk to each other When asked recently if we could “fax” something to someone, our young intern replied, “what’s a fax?” Fax machines have been phased out of many industries but in healthcare, referrals, patient records and many other forms of patient information are […]
Everything You Need to Know About Robust Integrations
What is Integration? From lab and radiology systems, to scheduling and billing, software systems in healthcare encompass a variety of applications that need to exchange information. The problem is that each system communicates over different protocols. They expect information to be received and sent in a certain way and are fairly inflexible. You can think […]
High Availability and Fault Tolerance In Your Disaster Recovery Policy
High availability vs fault tolerance. While there are definitely similarities between these two terms, when it comes to your organization’s backup plan for when your systems and applications go down, it’s worthwhile knowing their differences to understand how they help your business comply with a HIPAA disaster recovery policy. Disaster Recovery (DR) refers to […]
The Real Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Integration Engines
Deploying a “free” open source software integration engine may seem like a great choice for maximizing a tight IT budget, but the total cost of ownership (TCO) of interoperability solutions involves much more than just the software license. When factoring in the added costs of training, building and maintaining interfaces, hardware and other support infrastructure, […]
Interoperability Enables Improved Care Coordination and Quality of Delivery
Download whitepaper: Improving Quality of Care Delivery with Interoperability A critical component of delivering quality care is ensuring effective care coordination between physicians, nurses, pharmacists, behavioral health specialists, insurance plans, community-based organizations, and more. The consequences of poor communications during care transitions can be severe, both in terms of risk to the patient and unnecessary […]
