Three questions to ask your API vendor
March 25, 2016
If you’re reading this you most likely have a need to integrate your application with EHRs across…
New CS grad? Take that job offer from Epic.
March 7, 2016
When I got my job offer from Epic in 2010, I googled frantically to find out what…
What I had to learn to get a CDA from Epic
March 2, 2016
#I14YNow is trending at HIMSS and an absurdly vague interoperability pledge has been signed by a bunch…
Why the world needs a new kind of interface engine
November 23, 2015
Interoperability is on the tip of everyone’s tongue in the Health IT space, and every time it…
Five Quick Lessons in Integration
November 9, 2015
Many of you reading this are uneasy about blood (stop reading if you’re about to pass out),…
I own my Health Data
November 1, 2015
It’s a familiar story. We sit in waiting rooms filling out the same information on clip boards.…
What to Expect When You’re Expecting…to Integrate with a Health System
October 27, 2015
Congratulations! It’s been something that you’ve been planning for a long time, but when you get the…
Why you shouldn’t do EHR integration
October 15, 2015
EHR integration can improve a user’s workflow while eliminating errors caused by data entry. And the more…
An Interoperability Primer Part 3: Nomenclature, Vocabulary & Terminology
May 3, 2015
In part 1 of this series I gave a high-level overview of what HL7 is and does. In part 2 I…
Redox on FHIR
December 11, 2014
In a HL7 press release on Thursday, a group composed of the largest EHR vendors, some leading health systems,…