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 […]
HL7 and Beyond: Vyne Medical’s Iguana story
Matt Dyer, Director of Integration, Vyne Medical on Choosing Iguana Vyne Medical provides hospitals and health systems with the technology to convert raw data into actionable information. Serving a growing base of more than 800 hospital and healthcare system clients throughout the U.S., their solutions produce an integrated view of patient health data. Encrypting this […]
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 […]
Making Your EHR Migrations Sing – The Answer is in Your Data
When it comes to interfaces, it does not get more challenging than migrating the Patient Record system. As the heart of any healthcare organization, EMR/EHR systems connect all departments, clinical partners and administration systems. After a fashion, it is the one system to rule them all.
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 […]
Accelerate Your HL7 Projects With a Solid Data Model
Clinical interfaces cannot be completed fast enough. One of the keys to speeding up an HL7 interface project is a solid common data model. This concept often holds the key to scalable and robust interfaces, delivered on an accelerated timeline. A well thought out, normalized, data model simplifies the actual interface code, avoids duplicated development […]
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 […]
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 […]
