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 […]
Let’s Talk Integration: Ed Worthington, IT Director, Northern Physicians Organization (NPO) on Choosing Iguana
NPO is a large physician organization that provides a variety of services, such as legal and IT to its 540 members who are primarily independent physicians from practices of all sizes and specialties. It also provides the infrastructure for two other NPO-owned organizations— Northern Michigan Health Network and Trillium Health, contracting entities that are engaged […]
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 […]
Scaling Integrations with APIs
As your organization grows, the need for more integrations grow as well. Whether you need to onboard more clients or connect more departments, scaling integrations becomes necessary but can also become more complex. This post will identify the challenges associated with scaling and provide strategies for overcoming these challenges with the use of APIs. Challenges […]
Let’s Talk Integration! – Social Determinants of Health and Interoperability
Let’s Talk Integration! Your host, Teresa Fallico is joined by Marketing Associate, Cherisse Ebanks on this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Integration! This week, Teresa and Cherisse discuss the social determinants of health and how interoperability can play a significant role as the shift towards value-based care continues. They highlight three areas in which interoperability […]
Let’s Talk Integration: Onboard Faster and Easier with Interoperability
Let’s Talk Integration! Cherisse Ebanks and Teresa Fallico discuss how interoperability can be used to ensure quick and easy onboarding of new physician practices in this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Integration! An increase in demand for imaging services has naturally increased the pressure to exchange data between RIS, PACS and billing systems with external […]
Let’s Talk Integration: Improving Quality of Care Delivery with Interoperability
On this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Integration!, our host Teresa Fallico is joined by iNTERFACEWARE’s Solutions Architect, Nathalie Weidenfeld. This week, Teresa and Nathalie discuss the topic of how interoperability can improve the quality of care delivery in a value-based healthcare system. They dive into the discussion on improving the quality performance measures, often […]
Let’s Talk Integration: Accelerating the Delivery of Results with Interoperability
In this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Integration!, our host Teresa Fallico, dives into the topic of how interoperability accelerates the delivery of results for imaging centers and practices. In this podcast, Teresa discusses how one of the most effective ways in which imaging centers can better attract referring physicians, is through the speed at […]
Let’s Talk Integration: Reducing Hospital Readmissions with Interoperability
In this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Integration, Stephanie Pozzebon will be discussing the challenge faced by hospitals of increasing readmission rates, how interoperability can be used to reduce readmissions, and as a result, reduce the significant associated costs. Highlight’s from this week’s episode: Statistics around the costs associated with unnecessary hospital readmissions and how […]
iNTERFACEWARE Partners with Microsoft Azure™ to Transform Legacy Health Data into HL7® FHIR® Standard
At iNTERFACEWARE, we are committed to learning the latest on all things integration including developing a deeper understanding of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard (FHIR), engaging regularly with the HL7 community, and becoming seasoned in Application Programming Interfaces (API) interoperability. The maturation of the FHIR standard, increasing vendor API development, regulatory requirements, and the […]
Let’s Talk Integration: Driving Value-based Reimbursements with Interoperability
On this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Integration, Marketing Associate, Stephanie Pozzebon, will be filling in for Teresa Fallico, as she discusses how interoperability can help drive value-based reimbursements. Stephanie has recently been on the ground talking to different industry professionals to hear their thoughts on some of the commonly cited challenges that healthcare providers […]
