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What’s New With The Iguana User Conference 2016
In case you haven’t been to our website lately or don’t follow us on our social sites like LinkedIn and Twitter, we’ve been promoting this little thing we put on in September (21st-22nd) called the...
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The Impact of Data Integration At Your Hospital
For a patient, nothing is quite as frustrating as navigating the healthcare system and being required to bring your documentation to every department. Likewise, when a simple phone call to inquire...
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Building Interfaces Faster
In April, Bret Dawson, our VP of Product Development delivered a few tips on how to best design your integration projects. In it he discussed the importance of Separation of Concerns, local vs shared...
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Reducing Readmissions Through Integrated Patient Engagement
Readmissions are a challenge for most hospitals. In fact, over 2,500 hospitals received lower payments for every Medicare patient, readmitted or not. Even with readmission rates dropping since the...
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Integration Best Practices: Separation of Concerns
Recently, when giving a presentation on Integration Design Best Practices, the idea of Separation of Concerns was brought up. We like to start with this concept because whenever we talk about best...
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Value Based Payments: Technology Counts!
The “Pay For Performance” model is, albeit slowly, becoming a growing trend within American healthcare. The concept is relatively simple; healthcare providers are provided a financial incentive to...
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Welcome to Iguana Repositories
The release of Iguana 6 was all about giving our users the necessary tools to work smarter and ultimately faster. In this post, we’re going to explore Iguana’s Repositories and focus on the role that...
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Barriers To Interoperability In Healthcare: The “Lack of Data Standards”
iNTERFACEWARE recently ran a poll asking “What’s the greatest barrier to interoperability in healthcare? The ‘lack of data standards’ lead the poll with 36%. What do people really mean when they say...
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Is High Availability For Your Integration Platform Worth It?
Disasters are inevitable, unpredictable, and they vary in types and seriousness. For example, water leaking into a server room is annoying, but an 8.0 earthquake collapsing the building where the...
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How Fast Can Your IT Infrastructure Handle Bundled Payments?
Everyone in the healthcare industry is talking about the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative set up by the CMS. With over 75% of hospitals in America using EHRs, being able to...
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Workflow Improvements: The Domino Effect of Implementing a Modern Integration...
Implementing a modern integration engine can do wonders for improving operational efficiencies in hospitals. Everything from happier and more productive nurses to higher patient satisfaction and huge...
View ArticleWhat healthcare IT departments need to know about MACRA
The first thing to understand about MACRA is that its impact is limited to Medicare clinicians. Despite this limited application, it would be well worthwhile for all health IT vendors who deal with...
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Disaster Recovery vs. High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance: What are the...
When it comes to thinking about your organization’s backup plan for when your systems and applications go down, there are three terms that you are likely to hear a lot: disaster recovery, high...
View ArticlePopulation health framework: 5 steps for success
From Healthcare IT News: “How should population health look and work? There’s a five-step process to getting there, said Michael Dulin, MD, director of the academy for population health innovation at...
View ArticleAcquisitions & mergers: Securing PHI a priority
In mergers and acquisitions (M&A), buyers must perform due diligence with a rigorous cybersecurity assessment, to make sure the companies get the value they are paying for. Before pursuing a...
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An agile approach is needed to navigate the changing health IT landscape
It’s an understatement to say that the healthcare industry is in the midst of massive change at every level. From HITECH to Obamacare at the high level, to patient-generated health data and FHIR on the...
View ArticleONC calls for public comment on the Draft 2017 Interoperability Standards
Read the full article on the ONC’s Health IT Buzz blog. “Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published the draft 2017 Interoperability Standards...
View ArticleLean Healthcare: Q&A with speaker and author Mark Graban
Corepoint Health's annual user group conference offers optional pre-conference training courses designed to educate and improve the attendees' professional IT skills, typically involving health data...
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MACRA’s success depends on health IT
Read the full post on the EMR & HIPAA blog. “For value-based care to work, patient data needs to be made available for providers to coordinate with each other, as well as to payers, to properly...
View ArticleHow health IT and EHRs can help fight prescription drug abuse
"States should focus their policy and funding efforts on integrating the prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) into hospital EHRs that securely store patient information… The scope of this...
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