Question from Greg Meyer, distinguished engineer at Cerner: Optionality vs Extensibility: What effect is the large selection of standards and technology in the health IT…

Healthcare Integration Experiences and Insights
Question from Greg Meyer, distinguished engineer at Cerner: Optionality vs Extensibility: What effect is the large selection of standards and technology in the health IT…
Is there a national standard to what the baseline structure for what an ADT (A28, A31) message should include? Are there national specifications/schematics that say…
Even though the interfaces that handle both types of documents live side by side, keeping some of the high-level differences in mind when designing them…
Health data standards are part of almost every discipline and industry. Within healthcare, there are standards from laboratory and radiology procedures to network protocols. With…
This year’s HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition saw Karen DeSalvo, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, take the stage and it was clear…
Radiology has always had the most innovative technology in healthcare, with CT scanners that can capture a 3D image of a patient’s heart between heart…
Part 4 of Angela’s quantified self series explores a platform that enables users to design health “projects” for tracking across all devices, the RWJF’s Project…
Part 3 in the Walking Gallery series. See Part 1, Part 2. Regina Holliday, founder of the The Walking Gallery, began the social movement because…
Part 3 in the Walking Gallery series. See Part 1 and Part 2. Regina Holliday, founder of the The Walking Gallery, began the social movement because…
Athenahealth was right in the middle of the biggest industry news stories to come out of HIMSS13. While the CommonWell Health Alliance announcement sucked the…