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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 […]
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 […]
Interesting work with FHIR by Garry Christensen from Fuji Medical
Garry Christensen just got back from a FHIR connect-a-thon in Australia and did some very interesting work. He was courteous enough to share his experiences in our user forum. I thought it would of general interest to anyone curious about FHIR and the use of RESTful webservices in healthcare in general. I was impressed with […]
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 […]
FHIR Integration Made Easy
At the moment the biggest challenge with FHIR is making it easy to implement a “FHIR server”. It’s easy to write a client to consume FHIR. It gets a little challenging to make a client that can talk to more than one FHIR implementation. We don’t yet have the tooling in place to validate FHIR […]
FHIR Version 1.0
So I think there are some teething issues with FHIR. It got me thinking about an idea I had many years ago which I pitched to the leader of the opposition in Ontario one time. The idea didn’t go anywhere but it really would make sense. If you want to bring a new technology solution […]
What Should FHIR Be? Day 1 of the Atlanta WGM
So I arrived on Saturday and got checked in and joined the tail end of the FHIR Connectathon. It was good to meet Ewout Kramer in person, Grahame Grieve, Lloyd McKenzie again and Dave Shaver popped in for a bit (and there was also some guy from the UK who left before I got his […]
FHIR: Can It Reduce Interface Costs?
The industry has been abuzz with talk of FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) recently. It’s a subject that’s near and dear to me since it’s a real attempt at advancing the quality of patient care while reducing the cost associated with integration. What is FHIR? If this is your first time hearing about FHIR, I suggest you peruse the first entry in my […]
FHIR + Iguana = Profit!
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been writing a lot recently about FHIR. It’s a topic near-and-dear to my heart because it’s a genuine attempt to improve the landscape of healthcare, specifically interoperable healthcare, through a common-sense solution. FHIR – along with the promotion of the HL7 organization – is helping make the paradigm of RESTful […]
