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FHIR and the HIT Professional: What You Need to Know for 2017
FHIR & the HIT Professional: 2017 Need-to-Know Guide 09 FEBRUARY, 2017 Healthcare Industry News When the 21st Century Cures Act was passed into law in December of 2016, it established new requirements for interoperability and certification of health information...
read moreThe Top Technology Challenges Facing Healthcare Professionals Today
With HL7, the mission is simple: digital records that can be easily accessed by anyone involved in a patient’s care — but simple doesn’t mean easy.
read more5 Important Health IT Stories You Might Have Missed This Year
There’s a lot going on in the Health IT world these days, but sometimes it’s hard to weed the important news from the noise. With multiple interoperability deadlines due to hit next year, much of the coverage is on what’s going to happen, rather than what is — or has — happened so far.
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10 Questions to Ask When Evaluating an HIE
Considering a new healthcare integration engine at your organization? We look at 10 questions you should answer when evaluating an HIE and why they matter.
read moreEnsemble Integration During Epic Upgrade
One of the leading health care systems in the United States decided to upgrade their implementation of Epic so that they could take advantage of some of the new enhancements available in the latest version. They had enough internal IT staff that they determined they could tackle the upgrade in-house.
read moreHow did your Integration Engine Stack up?
How Does Your Integration Engine Stack up? 17 APRIL, 2017 Healthcare Integration Surveys As we prepare for our 2017 Core Health Integration Engine Rating Survey, we wanted to take a look back at the results from last year. We included 5 popular integration engines in...
read more#HIMSS17 Recap: An Industry on FHIR
A look back at major announcements from HIMMS 2017, including a new FHIR guide, a partnership with Google, and OCR announcements.
read moreeGate to Rhapsody Migration Gives Hospital Competitive Edge
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A regional hospital in Massachusetts decided to migrate their legacy e*Gate interface environment to Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine to ensure they could handle the more robust needs that came with being part of a Health Information Exchange (HIE). They reached out to Core Health Technologies to discuss the possibility of bringing on help for their existing team for the migration to the new system.
FHIR and the HIT Professional: What You Need to Know for 2017
FHIR & the HIT Professional: 2017 Need-to-Know Guide 09 FEBRUARY, 2017 Healthcare Industry News When the 21st Century Cures Act was passed into law in December of 2016, it established new requirements for interoperability and certification of health information...
read moreHow to Prevent a Healthcare Data Breach
Back in February the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in California experienced every health CIO’s worst nightmare: it was forced to shut down all of its computers and depend on fax machines and paper records for a week after being hit by ransomware. But this was just one of many attacks that occurred in the first half of 2016.
read moreThe Top Technology Challenges Facing Healthcare Professionals Today
With HL7, the mission is simple: digital records that can be easily accessed by anyone involved in a patient’s care — but simple doesn’t mean easy.
read more5 Important Health IT Stories You Might Have Missed This Year
There’s a lot going on in the Health IT world these days, but sometimes it’s hard to weed the important news from the noise. With multiple interoperability deadlines due to hit next year, much of the coverage is on what’s going to happen, rather than what is — or has — happened so far.
read moreHL7 MSH-11 Processing ID and Message Failures
Developer Tip: Pay attention to Processing ID in MSH-11 — most systems explicitly want either T for test or P for production.
read moreWarning: 3 Major Pitfalls for the ICD-10 October 1 Release
October 1st marked the day that ICD-10 went live and for some, it’s been a long time coming, but for others the “wait and see” approach might end up being more costly. As we all know, the change from ICD-9 to ICD-10 went from some 13,000 codes to about 68,000 which sounds daunting but with an organized plan and focus of resources, it should be attainable. However, if you were not ready, there are 3 major pitfalls that you might encounter.
read more3 Ways to Make Strides Toward Healthcare Interoperability
3 Ways to Make Strides Toward Healthcare Interoperability 14 JULY, 2015 Healthcare Integration How to Clear the Fog of War within Healthcare IT & Interoperability I believe General Clausewitz’s metaphor of fog to describe the fear, uncertainty, and problems with...
read moreReady for ICD-10’s Impact to Healthcare Integration?
With the October 1st ICD-10 compliance date now looming on the horizon, organizations are shoring up their plans for the transition. Software upgrades and training plans around the changes to ICD-10 codes may well be underway, we want to ask the integration community – Is your integration team ready?
read moreCDC Report – Use and Characteristics of EHR Systems
Key findings from the CDC Report on the Use and Characteristics of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems Among Office-based Physician Practices.
read moreMaking Progress: A 2013/2014 Comparison of HIE Organizations Supporting Meaningful Use Stage 2
Recently, the HIMSS HIE Committee conducted a follow-up survey to its 2013 Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Survey research providing a year-over-year snapshot of how health information organizations (HIOs) are facilitating providers’ progress in achieving meaningful use objectives – specifically around Stage 2. The 2014 Follow-up survey indicates substantial improvement in a short time.
read moreHealthcare Information Security: A Call to Arms – Protect our Flanks!
Healthcare Information Security: A Call to Arms - Protect our Flanks! 26 OCTOBER, 2012 HIT Security Combating the Information Security Threat while Focused on Key Priorities A guest blog on Porter Research October 25, 2012 While we all find ourselves struggling to...
read moreCore Delivers Remote, Long-Term Support for Legacy Integration Engine to Virginia Healthcare Provider
Core Health Technologies developed and deployed 250+ interfaces for DataGate, a legacy integration engine, at a Virginia-based healthcare organization.
read moreAnd the Future HL7 Interface Engine Leaders Are…
The most popular question on our HL7 Interface Technology Survey is the one that best captures the participant’s confidence in the future of industry’s key product – the HL7 Interface Engine. We ask: What interface engine do you believe will be the market leader in 2-5 years?
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