Switching to a new EHR System? You need these 3 Keys for a Successful EHR Migration
Hospitals are always in the process of switching EHR systems. During these current times of our on-going global pandemic, the need for health interoperability with a versatile integration engine is more self-evident than ever before. A report by KLAS research found that it is the norm to have nearly 50% of large hospitals replace, or […]
Building Interfaces Faster During Critical Times
In unprecedented times such as our current COVID-19 global pandemic, health ecosystems require building faster interfaces today, more than ever before. Iguana users over the decades have said the ease to scale rapidly has been one of its defining strengths. A great example to see how fast interfaces can actually be constructed in Iguana using […]
Data Integration At Your Hospital is Vital
For a patient, nothing is quite as frustrating as navigating the healthcare system and being required to bring your documentation to every department, especially this new COVID world, where tensions are already so high. Likewise, when a simple phone call to inquire about billing or appointments turns into an hour-long adventure of being transferred from […]
Connecting Hospitals Is More Essential Than Ever Before: Improve Patient Engagement With Integration
Today during COVID-19, more so than ever before, we see the value of patient engagement. This foundational aspect of our health ecosystem evaluates a hospital’s ability to provide patients with access to their information and to continuously communicate online after discharge. Questions revolve around patient access to their information and their ability to edit this […]
Integration Best Practices: Separation of Concerns
What is Separation of Concerns? It’s when you make sure that each component of your interface that does “something” only does that one thing. Doing this greatly reduces the complexity of your interfaces and makes it easier for you to maintain the code. Today, let’s look at how you can apply the principles of Separation of […]
Workflow Improvements: The Unlikely Positive Effect of Implementing a Modern Integration Engine
Implementing a modern integration engine can do wonders for improving operational efficiencies in hospitals. Today, more than ever with our current global pandemic we see the need for having more efficient workflow efficiencies. Everything from happier and more productive nurses to higher patient satisfaction and huge costs savings can be accomplished by using an integration […]
How iNTERFACEWARE Is Leading the Way with FHIR
For over 20 years iNTERFACEWARE has been a leader in healthcare integration, FHIR, and beyond. Our tooling and support for the latest market trends has stood the test of time as standards continue to evolve. Changing Healthcare Landscape The patient care process has become more complex as more options and paths to achieve interoperability crop […]
Enterprise Integration Considerations: Security for Integration Engines
The need for a high-performance integration engine is essential for today’s modern health ecosystem. Our integration engine, Iguana has the ability to process very high message volumes (i.e. HL7) and to do so with reasonable hardware requirements. We understand the costly risks that organizations face without the implementation of a highly available integration engine. This blog will […]
Improving Care Coordination with Integration Engines: HIE Integration
Improving Care Coordination with Integration Engines will share the ways in which Iguana, one of the industry’s top rated integration engines, was used to complete projects for the Northern Physicians Organization (NPO) as we discuss the importance of health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. What is an HIE? A health information exchange (HIE) […]
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 […]
