January 2011

It’s HL7: What Can Go Wrong?

These days I’m getting lots of questions about medical connectivity, health data integration, and system interfaces. There are many options for custom clinical data integration but the best is of course  HL7 because it’s ubiquitous. People that aren’t experienced with health data interfaces often think that since we have HL7 interfaces we basically have a [...]

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HL7 Interface Documentation: 6 Questions Hospital CIOs and IT Directors Should Be Asking Vendors

With healthcare IT integration tasks finally taking off because of Meaningful Use and other care collaboration requirements, HL7 interfaces will become even more important. After being involved in dozens of interfacing efforts over the past decade or so, I have found one of the most time-consuming aspects of integration is HL7 interface documentation: nobody has [...]

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What kind of business model does your bright health IT idea have?

I speak regularly (and write irregularly) about the importance of iterating through to a solid business model before you get too far with your great healthcare IT product idea. Whatever new idea you have in health IT has likely been tried before and if it failed it was likely not because the tech didn’t work [...]

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