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, […]
Interoperability Enables Improved Care Coordination and Quality of Delivery
Download whitepaper: Improving Quality of Care Delivery with Interoperability A critical component of delivering quality care is ensuring effective care coordination between physicians, nurses, pharmacists, behavioral health specialists, insurance plans, community-based organizations, and more. The consequences of poor communications during care transitions can be severe, both in terms of risk to the patient and unnecessary […]
Interoperability Helps Hospitals Improve Quality of Care
The healthcare industry’s shift from the traditional fee-for-service model to a value-based model has placed an increased emphasis on the quality of care delivery. For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have now implemented a quality payment incentive program that rewards value and outcomes in one of the following two manners: Merit-based Incentive […]
How Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Streamlined Management of Patient Records and Maximized Operational Efficiencies
Interoperability of the EMR with other essential hospital information systems is critical to ensure seamless communication and maintain a comprehensive patient record. Connecting this vast network of information sources requires the EMR to successfully integrate with a wide variety of disparate technology systems; however, this is often a challenge because not all systems can be […]
A Social Determinants Program Case Study
Pilot projects are popping up all over the U.S. to address what some call Whole Person Care. Essentially, we are talking about a physician driven but community wide approach for addressing a patient’s medical, behavioral and social needs. Northern Physicians Organization has implemented such a program using Iguana to support its case management platform shared […]
Building a Blueprint for a Social Determinants Program
The current drive for health care transformation has put increasing focus on the socioeconomic risks that impact our health. Underlying social risks such as insecurities around housing, food availability, transportation, employment and domestic safety, to name a few, influence a patient’s health far more than medical factors alone. Physicians can be the tip of the […]
Rushville Memorial Hospital: Adapting to New Healthcare Economies
Healthcare does not get more challenging than in rural communities. Small and socio-economically varied populations spread over large geographies already create a foundational challenge when it comes to healthcare. This challenge has been complicated further for hospitals under pressure to reduce readmissions and hospital stays while continuing to stay competitive. Adapting to new healthcare economies […]
IUC19 UPDATE: Videos and Exercises are now Available!
We are excited to announce that our IUC19 presentation videos and exercises have been released! We wanted to thank everyone again for attending this year’s conference making it our best yet! IUC19 featured two days of interactive presentations surrounding our theme of API-driven integration. These sessions were designed to educate, provide insights and offer actionable […]
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