Role of an Integration Engine in Large and Small Enterprises
By James Proctor, Director of Integration Services When reviewing the state of integration engines in the healthcare vertical it is easy to underestimate the value and criticality of the nature of such technology. We [...]
Preparing for the CMS Rule: ADT Alerts now Required for Hospitals
By Christine Duval, Director of Marketing With almost all US hospitals now dependent on an electronic health record (EHR) system, there has been a dramatic uptick in technological capabilities meant to improve interoperability and [...]
COVID-19 Test System Integration
Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Senior Director of Client Services The push for COVID-19 testing is at the forefront of the healthcare industry right now. Nationwide daily tests total more than 700,000. These [...]
Why You Should be Archiving Your Legacy EHR Data
In today’s world, hospital systems have more clinical and business documentation than they know what to do with. As needs continue to shift, and the initiatives to change or upgrade your EHR or other [...]
eMPI – The Lightweight Solution You’ve Been Looking For?
Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Director, Client Services In an ideal world, all your vendor systems are communicating in the same protocols and using the same patient identifier. Patient A1234 in your HCIS [...]
How to Put Your RPA in 6th Gear
Posted on behalf of Paul Actis, SVP Research & Development 1st Gear - Time is of the essence When you open an application, do you want to wait 10 seconds before you start working on [...]
The Cost of an EHR Downtime
Posted on behalf of Christine Duval, Marketing Manager at Summit Healthcare What keeps a Hospital CIO up at night? It’s one of those burning questions that every HIT vendor would like to know, and [...]
Remote Workforces Make Proactive Alerting and Monitoring More Critical than Ever
Posted on behalf of Marianne Soucy, Director, Client Solutions Remote monitoring capability of your automation and integration products is something that we thought might be good to spotlight this month. This capability is included [...]
Maintaining Momentum on Your Paused Projects
Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Director, Services In Healthcare, IT initiatives are always happening. New imaging software, an admissions application, a community integration initiative, the list of projects never ends. However, in recent [...]
How to Handle Patient Moves and Bed Transfers; A17 HL7 Messages
Posted on behalf of Marianne Soucy, Director Client Solutions With many hospitals preparing for influxes of COVID patients, how to handle Patient moves and bed transfers has seen a sudden spike. LTC patients being [...]
How to Convert Non-HL7 Files into HL7 Messages
This is a question we are asked periodically: how can I process a non-HL7 batch file, such as a CSV, into individual HL7 messages for delivery via the interface engine? Recently, we helped a [...]
Managing a Suddenly Remote Staff
Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Director, Client Services COVID-19, or novel coronavirus, is here. It’s affecting our lives in innumerable ways. We’re being encouraged to stay home and away from others. Many businesses [...]
Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Healthcare; Work Smarter, not Harder
Posted on behalf of Katie Jankowski, Senior Implementation Engineer Healthcare is constantly innovating and offering new technology that changes the way patient care is provided. Artificial Intelligence is being used to improve workflows, help [...]
We’re All Contributing to Change in Healthcare
Posted on behalf of Christine Duval, Marketing Manager After months of preparing for HIMSS20, and looking forward to various presentations, educational sessions, meetings and events, it was disappointing to learn of HIMSS’ decision to [...]
Using Services to Unlock the Potential of Your Incredible Staff
Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Director of Client Services Managed Services, Outsourcing, Professional Services, Software Services; these can all be four letter words when it comes to Budget Approval. Maybe you’re purchasing new [...]