InterSystems technology stack, anchored by its interoperability platform HealthShare, is widely recognized as a best-in-breed solution for securely sharing healthcare data across disparate systems. To simplify the transformation of data from different clinical sources, InterSystems developed a data model called SDA (Summary Document Architecture). SDA allows for a simplified transformation of various patient-related source messages […]

  Telehealth refers to a broad scope of remote healthcare services. Applications for telehealth range from clinical (telemedicine) to mental health & substance abuse (telecounseling). There is a lot written about how telehealth can save time and money for hospitals, health systems and other organizations. There is less emphasis on the other side of the […]

Healthcare is undergoing a revolutionary transformation driven by data, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and engagement platforms. Population Health seeks to identify and engage with at-risk patient populations to improve outcomes and reduce cost. Population health initiatives benefit patients, healthcare organizations, and the public. When overall population health improves, that means a higher quality of […]

Preventing hospital readmissions is a critical goal of health systems today. It’s a valuable tactic for achieving the Triple Aim, a three-pronged framework for optimizing the performance of healthcare organizations. A simple, proven way to make sure recently-released patients don’t quickly return for the same episode of care takes place immediately before the patient is discharged—Ensure […]

When the development team at Surgical Information Systems (SIS) asked if we could help them make some quick-win performance improvements to one of their applications, we jumped at the chance.

In Part II of her FHIR Dev Days wrap-up, J2 subject matter expert Ayesha Lefevbre tells us what’s next for FHIR. We have work to do, but it’s going to be worth it.

The first HL7 FHIR Developer Days conference held in the Americas just wrapped up. Today’s guest blog is by J2 subject matter expert Ayesha Lefebvre. She attended the conference in Boston last week and wrote about her favorite takeaways.

Director of Innovation at J2 Interactive, Steve Heard, takes us through some of the exciting elements in the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, the new way of leveraging data that’s more scalable and simpler to maintain than anything we’ve seen before.

Like many states across the country, Rhode Island is working to address the opioid addiction epidemic. Also like other states, Rhode Island runs a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) as one strategy to mitigate the crisis.

Our new client, Rio Grande Valley Health Information Exchange (RGV HIE), is launching an initiative to support health data sharing among Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers and hospitals in Texas.

Though our software development and integration work doesn’t usually give us direct contact with providers and patients, we never forget that those are the people we’re really working for. 

SCL has connected its Epic clinical data repository with Salesforce Service Cloud, enabling personalized care for cardiac outpatients.

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) enable data sharing among neighboring healthcare organizations such as hospitals, labs, pharmacies and ambulatory practices and clinics. While the payer community largely sat on the sidelines in the early years of the HIE movement, they have recently become much more important players in this space.

I recently attended both the New Jersey and New York HIMSS annual conferences. Here are the discussions I found most notable.

Neal Patterson, Cerner co-founder and CEO, died Sunday of complications from cancer. He was 67.

Fast note, everyone!

In a continuation of the previous post, Glenn explores the challenges of integrating post-acute care data and how to prepare your organization for interoperability.