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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 […]
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.
Clinical Document Architecture (CDA): An Overview
Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is an XML-based standard for encoding clinical documents for easy data exchange.
Meaningful Use CAIR Package
Attention Californian healthcare providers: Let us help you exchange data with the California Immunization Registry at no cost!
IGUANA Now a Leader in CIO/CMIO Mindshare
There has been a big upswing in the perception of Iguana in the marketplace for interface engines.
User conference, mass API integration, job opening and more!
Oh my. First of all, thanks to everyone that was able to attend our first user conference. We had over 50 attendees which was more than we hoped for our first event. I was meaning to blog about the event earlier but just got slammed with a couple of things on the development side and […]
Nice new tutorial resource on Iguana
Just getting back into the swing of work after my holiday away. While I was travelling, my team put together a great new resource that is part of IGUANA 5.5.6. When you install IGUANA now, you’ll have the option of installing 4 demo channels to quickly get up to speed with how IGUANA works. You […]
Leadership
This is in response to Dave Shaver’s (President of Corepoint Health) comment on my blog. Hi David, Thanks for weighing in. Your comment reminds me of one of the earliest conversations we had where you made much the same point: That it’s not the best technology that wins, but the best marketed one. It was an argument […]
Anyone Who Doesn’t Do this Will be FHIRed. Thank You; Have a Nice Day!
In my post about FHIR + Iguana = Profit I made a passing mention of an important event in Amazon’s history from back in 2002 – give or take a year or so. Jeff Bezos issued a mandate: All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Teams must communicate with each other through […]
FHIR in the Hole!
There are lots of places where FHIR shows underlying problems in it’s conception. One of the areas is in how to handle database transactions. It’s a big topic of discussion within the FHIR team of how to handle this. I tried to think of a few constructive ways to solve the problem – maybe flattening […]
