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
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, technology plays a crucial role in optimizing patient care and improving outcomes. Vyne Medical, a provider of innovative solutions for hospitals and health systems, stands at the forefront of converting raw data into actionable information. With over 800 healthcare clients across the United States, their integrated view of patient […]
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, looking for shared wordpress plans and a deliberate choice of approach and platform can drive both in alignment. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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