The Cost of an EHR Downtime
Posted on behalf of Christine Duval, Marketing Director 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 [...]
The New Summit Customer Care Center
By Hollis Marek, Senior Director, Product Experience You may have seen an email about the latest updates to our client area, the Summit Customer Care Center. As a customer, you may wonder – what [...]
Positive Takeaways from 2020 – Empathy, Understanding, and Flexibility
It has been over a year now since our work environments drastically changed. Many companies have been virtual since that time. By lifting most restrictions over the past few weeks, the CDC has finally [...]
Scaling Up Your Workflows
Posted on behalf of Pieter Masschaele, Senior Director of Software Development Are you tired of repeating the same tasks again and again? If your day-to-day at work reminds you of the movie “Groundhog Day,” [...]
Automating COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting
Posted on behalf of Lily Cohen, Marketing Associate Barry Njoes, our Director of Regional Sales, gave the scoop on how the Summit Scripting Toolkit can help clients automate pre-registrations for COVID-19 vaccinations. Right now, [...]
Summit Blog – Thriving in a Virtual Work Environment
Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Senior Director of Client Services You spent the previous day traveling, stayed overnight in a hotel going over your notes, and now it is time for the big [...]
Scrambling to Complete High Volume, Repetitive Data Entry Tasks Before Year End?
By Christine Duval, Marketing Director Along with gearing up for the holiday season, most staff members at pretty much every organization are likely also dealing with a serious time crunch to finish year-end projects, [...]
You Don’t Have to Adapt Under Extraordinary Circumstances Alone
Posted on behalf of Lily Cohen, Marketing Associate Today, hospitals have had to adapt under extraordinary circumstances. Hospital employees need all the time they can get to focus on patients and other pressing projects. [...]
The Missing Piece of Your Direct Messaging Solution
Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Senior Director of Client Services Promoting Interoperability, formerly known as Meaningful Use, was established by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Its focus was on three components: [...]
Interview with Paul Actis, SVP Research and Development at Summit Healthcare
Posted on behalf of Lily Cohen, Marketing Associate at Summit Healthcare I sat down with Paul Actis, Summit’s Senior VP of Research & Development, to learn more about the upgraded SST Web Dashboard with [...]
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 [...]