#HITsm Panel at HIMSS Part 2: mHealth, Dr. Google, and Social Communities
This is second part of the #HITsm at HIMSS15 Panel transcript. Read Part 1. A special thanks to our four panelists: Keith Boone, Standards Geek for GE Healthcare Dr. Doug Fridsma, President and CEO of...
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How do you Demo Your Software?
Firstly, let me say that I promise in the coming weeks, I’ll get back to writing and highlight some specific tips and techniques with IGUANA. But for today, I wanted to spend a little time talking...
View ArticleWhy is Health IT behind in workflow-friendly technology and process...
Thank you to HL7Standards.com for allowing me to press my case for using workflow technology to counter healthcare’s Workflow Problem. I’ll argue that we should adopt a new metaphor. Instead of “data...
View ArticleMy name is Michelle and I am a recovering EMR sales rep
Recently I spent a long weekend on an annual girls’ beach trip. The five of us are former co-workers and have known one another for more than 20 years. All of us sold EMR software at some point in our...
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Driving Transformational Change with Wearable Tech
One area that is always interesting to me is why some people and companies are able to drive change, and others cannot, even with equally good ideas. Sometimes it just takes one person or event to...
View ArticleTrust Me, I’m a Doctor
When I was growing up, my parents taught me that doctors should be revered and their wisdom trusted. I had a good friend whose father was a physician and I remember my dad chastising me once when I...
View ArticleTechnology in the Medical World
Everyday, the use of technology grows, and the lines between what computers do versus humans grow closer. In some cases, the lines have become blurry. From robot vacuums and other items to automate...
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The Value of Building Out a Standard Module
If you are a vendor that is planning on doing dozens of interfaces with Iguana with a team of people, it’s worth spending a little bit of time thinking it through. First of all, it’s a good idea to...
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The 9s & the IGUANA User Conference 2015
Some of you may already know that every fall we host our IGUANA User Conference at our office in Toronto (September 23 and 24th this year). For those of you who didn’t, here’s a retrospective on last...
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Health Information Exchange: Fact or Fantasy
I’ve been noticing more and more Health Information Exchange (HIE) “success” stories hitting my inbox lately. Headlines such as “HIE To See Participation Boost With New Providers” and “Data analytics...
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Selecting The Right Channel Components
I’ve been meaning to write about this topic for a while now. Not because I think it’s overly exciting, or because I have some amazing perspective to offer, but simply because it’s a topic that tends...
View ArticleEveryone but my doctor knows all about me
Earlier this week I noticed that I had over 500 emails in my spam folder. I’m usually pretty good about cleaning it out every few days but recently I’ve been especially busy. One of the reasons I’ve...
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Managing Key/Value Pairs with IGUANA
This week, I put together a new helper module to let you view and manage the key/value pairs stored with the store.lua module. The code and instructions are at the bottom if you want to skip the rest...
View ArticleData Liberación Gets Personal, EXTREME Interoperability
The things we can do with health data are expanding and maturing toward a value-based, precision medicine future. That was apparent at the annual Health DataPalooza in Washington DC, an annual event...
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Thinking Through Interface Error Handling
When it comes to errors and interfaces, there is a little more to think about than what first comes to mind. The bad news is that error handling is specific to your application, the type of interface...
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Smarter Cities and Healthcare: Thru a Wide Angle Lens
Disruptive Forces in Healthcare Last week, I participated on a panel to discuss “Disruptive Forces in Healthcare: Where Are They Leading Us?” at the DIA conference in Washington D.C. Jack Andraka at...
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Measuring Your System Requirements for IGUANA
As I’ve mentioned before, I (and many others in our company) like to keep an eye on our support inquiries for interesting and/or commonly asked questions. One such topic that comes up repeatedly (and...
View ArticleIs Interoperability A Technical or Business Challenge In Healthcare?
Excerpt from Casino Healthcare by Dan Munro. Part 1 of 3. The voices around healthcare interoperability are becoming louder, more frequent and more urgent ‒ which is a great thing. Recently the fires...
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Healthcare’s ‘Cobra Effect’
During a recent #HITsm chat, Don Lee mentioned “the cobra effect.” It was a term I hadn’t heard before and loved reading about the history of the term in Wikipedia: “The cobra effect originated at the...
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Is Interoperability a Technical or Business Challenge in Healthcare? Part 2
Excerpt from Casino Healthcare by Dan Munro. Part 2 of 3. In Part 1 of this three-part series we saw how the world of packet-switching technology truncated the word “interoperability” to just “interop”...
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