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 [...]
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 [...]