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Using Iguana for Effective Patient Communication and a Better Patient Experience – Key Factors for Success in 2021

As we enter the new year, trends indicate that an effective patient communication is a highly valued component in the healthcare process. According to an article by CAPMINDS, communication between hospitals and their patients should be trustworthy and useful – which serves as a great opportunity for healthcare organizations to make use of their communication […]

December 29, 2020 More
 

Stay In front of The Digital Transformation of Healthcare Providers in 2021 with Iguana

Digital transformation initiatives are at the core of many healthcare organizations. This year has served as a year full of unpleasant surprises with a global pandemic in the healthcare space, yet out of this comes many new unforeseen opportunities. In an article written by Jahn Karsybaev, CTO at Prosource IT and host on ‘Ivy Podcast’, […]

December 21, 2020 More
 

Switching to a new EHR System? You need these 3 Keys for a Successful EHR Migration

Hospitals are always in the process of switching EHR systems. During these current times of our on-going global pandemic, the need for health interoperability with a versatile integration engine is more self-evident than ever before. A report by KLAS research found that it is the norm to have nearly 50% of large hospitals replace, or […]

May 26, 2020 More
 

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 […]

May 20, 2020 More

My Dad Mervyn Muir – A pioneer meta integration engineer

The question of meta programming and modeling in health-care is a hot issue with HL7 v3 and the Reference Information Model (RIM).  When ever it comes up I think about my Dad’s TV remote. My dad Mervyn was the personification of think different long before Apple ever trademarked the term. He worked his entire career for the New […]

April 4, 2011 More

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 4

Part 4: The failed promise of graphical mapping In the first post of this blog series, Re-thinking Integration, I explained how I have spent a great deal of time examining my assumptions about what middleware needs to deliver. At the forefront of my original assumptions was my belief that the majority of mapping could be […]

February 15, 2011 More

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 3

Part 3: The Integration Engineer An old friend and customer of mine once told me that the two most important tools in his job as an integration engineer were Iguana and his phone but not in that order. The majority of his time was spent talking to his customers to determine the requirements needed to […]

February 9, 2011 More

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 2

Part 2: It’s all about economics There is an old joke I enjoy, that I think has a lot of relevance to software. There was a guy who always cut his pot roast in half before cooking it. His wife was curious as to why he always did it that way. He replied that this […]

February 3, 2011 More
 

HL7 Explained: How does HL7 work?

Whenever I travel for work, one of the most common questions I hear is “How does HL7 work?” HL7 is not always one of the sexiest subjects, but as interoperability and connectivity continue to be huge drivers in the health care space, the questions of HL7 are going to continue to be asked. So, after […]

December 19, 2009 More

Up for Air after HIMSS

HIMSS was a blast – I’m just back into the swing of things again in Toronto.  For the last two weeks I’ve been busy interviewing developers – I guess I ought to delegate that task.  But the choice of people you hire seems to be one of the most important things one can do in […]

April 24, 2009 More