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HL7 (Health Level 7): An ANSI standard for healthcare specific data exchange between computer applications. The name HL7 comes from "Health Level 7", which refers to the top layer (Level 7) of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layer protocol for the health environment.
 

The Build vs. Buy Dilemma: Choosing the Right Path for Healthcare Data Integration

Imagine this: You’re leading an IT team at a growing healthcare organization, and you’ve just been tasked with a major initiative—integrating your internal applications with your EMR system, an HIE, or a data warehouse. You need to automate data exchange, ensure compliance, and create a scalable solution that will support future growth. Now comes the […]

February 10, 2025 More
 

The Importance of Interoperability During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Iguana’s strengths have been highlighted during this global pandemic for our worldwide customers. Its ability to efficiently scale interfaces quickly has helped organizations using Iguana all over the world transfer critical data in relation to COVID-19 during these times. Listen to iNTERFACEWARE’s Paul Le, Solutions Architect for a deeper dive, on how Iguana has helped […]

November 12, 2020 More
 

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 […]

March 5, 2020 More
 

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 […]

February 7, 2020 More
 

EMR Integration using FHIR®

Last month, we hosted our 7th annual Iguana User Conference in Chicago. This year’s theme was centred around looking towards the future of healthcare interoperability specifically through API driven integration. Through several interactive presentations, our experts shared with our customers how APIs can help them adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare landscape. This week, we’ll […]

October 15, 2019 More
 

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 […]

August 13, 2019 More
 

Improving Care Coordination with Integration

We recently released a case study about the Northern Physicians Organization and their pursuit to improve care coordination to drive high-quality outcomes and reduce the cost of care delivery. “Better coordination of care services between our physicians and other providers is central to our goal of helping our members achieve the Triple Aim objective of […]

March 4, 2019 More
 

8 Reasons to Implement FHIR

There has been a lot of hype about FHIR, and most of it is warranted. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at 8 reasons why you should implement FHIR.

November 7, 2016 More

Meaningful Use CAIR Package

Attention Californian healthcare providers: Let us help you exchange data with the California Immunization Registry at no cost!

May 9, 2014 More

Why FHIR Will Burn CDA

This is FHIR: It’s simple, clean and easy to plug into any electric socket. … and this is CDA: Not exactly something I would recommend putting into an electrical socket! In fact it’s a lot of pain to plug a CDA into anything. The problem is that CDA implementations are large with too many data […]

April 12, 2013 More
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