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 would be patient A1234 in your LAB system, your vital monitors, and your Radiology scheduling software. But of course, in [...]
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 it? Of course not, but a lot of automation processes will. The 10 seconds is a buffer due to a slow [...]
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 provide a solution for. In numerous interviews and conversations, the most common responses are cybersecurity and downtime preparedness, two topics [...]
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 with your products standardly, it is simply a matter of turning it on and using it well! The last few [...]
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 months priorities have shifted. Hospitals are putting many projects on hold as the focus is on their COVID response. In [...]
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 moved to different units is one good example of this activity, moving patients to isolation units is another. While most [...]
Posted on behalf of Marianne Soucy, Director, Client Solutions 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 local hospital on one of our free Ask a Trainer sessions [...]
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 enhance patient experience, and assist with clinician decision-making. We are now seeing more virtualization of patient care and many Massachusetts-based [...]
BridgeHead and Summit Advance Healthcare Data Archiving BridgeHead’s global partnership with Summit Healthcare brings together complementary solutions and services for the migration, consolidation, access and interoperability of healthcare data. WOBURN, MA – 17 March 2020 – BridgeHead Software, the leader in healthcare data management, today announced a strategic partnership with Summit Healthcare, a leader [...]
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 cancel the event due to coronavirus concerns. However, we at Summit Healthcare completely understand and support the decision to do [...]
