How Summit Exchange Saves You Money on your Point-of-Care (POC) Device Implementation Posted on behalf of Jeff Ford, Director, Managed Services Point-of-care testing (POCT) is a growing initiative at most Healthcare institutions these days. POCT refers to medical tests that can be performed at bedside instead of requiring the specimens be sent off to [...]
Healthcare Acronyms for Dummies Posted on behalf of David Cohen, Regional Sales Manager I grew up in the suburbs of Boston and as a teenager and through my thirties I would trek into Cambridge to visit Harvard Square with my friends. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of visiting Harvard [...]
Preparing for a Downtime - Ahead of Time Posted on behalf of Eric Murphy, Support Analyst As a Support Analyst here at Summit Healthcare, I cannot stress enough the importance of making sure that you have proper backups configured for your system. For this reason, an emphasis on this topic is always made during [...]
When Fake Test Records Are Still Too Real Posted on behalf of Bill French, QA Engineer In the Healthcare software world, the need for accurate and reliable test data is as strong as ever. Sometimes, the temptation may be strong to use real LIVE data to test with. But this kind of thing can be [...]
Go LIVE or Go-Live - It all depends on your perspective Posted on behalf of Christel Fowkes, Regional Sales Manager. A few years ago, I spent numerous days with my father walking the halls of a various healthcare organizations. My mother had many health complications, and during her extended stays I accompanied him as [...]
Summit Healthcare is a Proud Partner in U.S. National Health IT Week Braintree, Mass., October 10, 2018 – This October, Summit Healthcare — as a partner in the advancement of health information technology to help improve healthcare —is a Proud Partner in U.S. National Health IT Week. U.S. National Health IT Week is an [...]
Summit Healthcare Supports this Year’s Recipient of the Heart of MUSE Foundation: A Gift For Teaching The international MUSE Conference is one of the largest MEDITECH user group conferences in the country. Every year, the conference gives individuals and organizations in the healthcare industry a chance to come together for networking, professional development, thought [...]
Posted on behalf of Tom Bishop, Software Developer Having a game plan is essential before installing and configuring Summit Exchange. Here are some things to consider: 1. What are your interfacing needs? An interface is defined as “a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact.” Identify the number of interfaces. Start [...]
This October, Summit Healthcare — as a partner in the advancement of health information technology to help improve healthcare —is a Proud Partner in National Health IT Week. National Health IT Week is an awareness week offering all healthcare stakeholders an opportunity to unite under one banner, expressing the benefits that health information technology [...]
Posted on behalf of James Proctor, Integration Services Manager Interoperability can be defined as the idea of achieving broad access to common information across an uncommon landscape, between disparate partners. When we think about what has been accomplished in Healthcare, and Healthcare IT, over just the last 10 years, the sweeping changes and regulations [...]
