Why interoperability is the future of healthcare "The common thread to satisfying consumers and enabling advanced data analytics and seamless care coordination is interoperability. Interoperability is the ability of devices and systems to exchange and use electronic ...
IHE IT Infrastructure Work Items Selected
The IHE IT Infrastructure Committee has selected its work items for the next annual cycle. This year, a significant increase in total work made it through the process. To accommodate the extra work, some load balancing will be done and a staggered approach will be applied. Here’s ...
HL7 ADT Q&A with Dave Shaver
Recently, I received a question regarding the HL7 ADT message and thought that it, along with the answer, warranted a larger audience. Question: Is there a national standard to what the baseline structure of an ADT (A28, A31) message should include? Are there national ...
Analyzing The TweetStream: Week of 7/1-7/3
It was a short week for us, thanks to the 4th of July, but that didn’t stop our Tweet net from catching a few good headlines to throw back out at you. Here are the top 5 Health IT news stories we tweeted for the short week of 7/1 – 7/3. #1 #HL7 certification can now be ...
Analyzing The TweetStream: A Closer Look at The News For The Week of 6/17 – 6/21
In this new blog segment, we take a look at the top 5 pieces of news that ran through our Twitterfeed over a specific work week. #1: Q&A w/ @Farzad_ONC concerning #ICD10 | http://t.co/7LFRJxExDt by @DManos_IT_News #healthIT #HITsm— HL7 Standards (@HealthStandards) June ...