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Continuity of Care Document (CCD): Changing The Landscape of Healthcare Information Exchange

Insights into the CCD and how it increases the quality and efficacy of patient transfer between points of care.

Understanding The Continuity of Care Record

The origins of CCR, its components and intended use and how CCR works together with the CCD.

7 Habits for Effectively Leading Healthcare Interoperability Initiatives

Recently Updated - The seven most effective practices in achieving enterprise wide healthcare interoperability, based on Covey's 7 habits

Conformance Checking for HL7

Explains the need for a Gap analysis or conformance checking for HL7 messages to determine whether a message from a particular application is compatible with the standard HL7 messaging format.

HL7 and HIPAA : What You Need to Know

Outlines the basics of HL7 and its requirements by HIPAA, as well as healthcare organizations compliance in relation to larger interoperability goals.

The Evolution of HL7

An in depth look at the beginning of HL7, who uses HL7 and the gradual progression of the messaging standard to what it is today.

The Role of an Interface Engine in Modern Healthcare

Highlights the role of a modern interface engine in today's intense climate. It addresses the demand for an integrated healthcare environment, faster deployment cycle times, and high quality interfaces able to be built by people with both programming and analyst-level skill sets.

Healthcare Interfacing Insights: What is Your Data Integrity Model?

This white paper covers several aspects to ensuring a robust data integrity model, focusing on two dimensions – Interface Testing and Interface Monitoring.

Healthcare Standards: Distributing Results

In the constellation of separate systems within a healthcare facility, it is common to have a single application that produces Result/Report (ORU) HL7 messages. These Result messages may correspond to Orders that originated at several different ordering facilities or ordering physicians.

The Role of Integration in Radiology: Moving from Necessity to Leverage

Radiology practices that have realized the benefits of leveraging an integrated environment are able to process patient information faster, and with fewer complications, than practices that have maintained a traditional, manual information sharing strategy. Leveraging an integrated environment is a strategic differentiator and is being taken advantage of by leaders in the radiology industry.

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