With many competing priorities, it’s not always practical or necessary for an early stage medical device manufacturer or distributor to invest in a CRM system such as Salesforce. Because of this, early stage device manufacturers & distributors often have person, location and asset data stored in different silos within the organization. These silos range from […]
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9 Reasons Medical Device Manufacturers Adopt Salesforce
What’s New with Health Cloud: News from Salesforce World Tour
Salesforce World Tour landed in DC for a day of learning and networking. A small group of our team at J2 attended the event to hear what’s new with Salesforce for healthcare and life sciences, and learn what’s currently top of mind in patient management for healthcare organizations. First, what are healthcare organizations focused on […]
Salesforce Web-to-Case: Alternatives For File Attachment Support
Help! Your customer has an issue and they want to complete a web form to open a service ticket. All Salesforce orgs include functionality called Web-to-Case. It’s easy to implement, but it has limits – the biggest being the lack of support for attachments. In many situations, the ability for a customer to attach a […]
The Benefits of Extending HealthShare’s SDA Data Model
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 […]
Legacy Clinical Data Archiving: Beyond a Historical Patient Snapshot
When a hospital system moves to a new healthcare information platform, a question that often comes up is, “at what point should legacy clinical systems be decommissioned?” Data from legacy clinical systems often must be easily accessible to users for operational, clinical and compliance reasons. What to do with legacy systems? Keeping legacy clinical […]
Six Advantages of Telehealth for Patients
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 […]
Population Health Initiatives – Where Salesforce Health & Marketing Clouds Fit In
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 […]
How Salesforce Health Cloud Is Like LEGO Sets
If you don’t live and breathe a certain technology, it can be difficult to understand what it is and how it works. Like many people, I’m still trying to fully understand blockchain. I do, however, live and breathe Salesforce. Part of my job is to explain Salesforce and Salesforce Health Cloud to others. At Salesforce’s […]
Should you consider outside help for your next big interoperability project?
Interoperability has become more important than ever for ensuring patient safety. Large interoperability projects require a lot of resources for successful execution. Therefore, healthcare CIOs often need to consider whether to engage outside specialists to help manage the workload spike. If you do choose to augment your staff with a third party consulting team: What […]
Reducing Hospital Readmissions With Salesforce Health Cloud
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 a Little Optimization Makes a Big Difference
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.
FHIR Dev Days Part II: The Hype and the Reality
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.
What’s New With FHIR? News from HL7 FHIR Dev Days
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.
Why We’re Excited About InterSystems IRIS
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.
Integrating the PDMP into the Provider Workflow in Rhode Island
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.
How CRM Can Help Medical Device Manufacturers With CAPA Procedures
The FDA’s Title 21 CFR 820 Regulatory Requirement means that manufacturers of medical devices that are subject to FDA regulation need to establish and maintain procedures for implementing corrective and preventive action (CAPA) related to device non-conformity. These procedures must provide for control and action to be taken on any distributed or not yet distributed […]
Sharing Data in an Emergency – Texas HIE Connect EMS Providers with Hospitals
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.
Missouri Health Connection Featured in Philanthropy Journal
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.
J2 Builds HealthShare-to-Salesforce Integration at SCL Health
SCL has connected its Epic clinical data repository with Salesforce Service Cloud, enabling personalized care for cardiac outpatients.
HIE-Payer Efforts Expand, But Challenges Remain
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.
