On June 13, 2014, AEGIS will host the quarterly Open Health Tools (OHT) Board Meeting in its Rockville, Maryland Office. Open Health Tools operates as an open source community where members of the Health and IT professions can collaborate to build interoperable systems that will provide users with access to patient and medical information. AEGIS is an active […]
Read moreAEGIS is proud to announce the election of senior staff member Barry Dickman to the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) National Capital Area (NCA) Chapter Board of Directors. HIMSS-NCA’s mission is to promote professional approaches to the development, operation, and improvement of healthcare information management systems that benefit the local healthcare community while […]
Read moreThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal Communications Commission(FCC), released a draft report that includes a proposed strategy and recommendations for a risk-based framework as required by the FDA Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 (FDASIA) Health IT Report. The report specifically called […]
Read moreA few of us from AEGIS attended the 2014 Small Business Conference (SBC) last week hosted by ACT-IAC. This was our sixth year attending and, if I recall correctly, our third year as a proud Platinum Sponsor. The media covering the conference have written about a theme of how contract consolidation, also known as contract bundling, […]
Read moreAEGIS will be participating in the Health Level Seven (HL7) May 2014 Working Group Meeting held at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix, AZ from May 4th – 9th, 2014. Recognized as a global community leader in innovation of Health IT interoperability, testing, analytics, and informatics, AEGIS brings updates on the launch of HL7 Conformance Testing […]
Read moreOne of my hats has me leading industry awareness and collaboration as the Chair of the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) Interoperability Work Group (IWG). The OSEHRA IWG is aimed at promoting the importance of testing for interoperability and standards conformance in the electronic exchange of health information. The IWG is mobilizing the […]
Read moreAEGIS is proud to once again sponsor the ACT-IAC Small Business Conference at the Platinum level. The event takes place April 24 at the Washington Hilton in DC. The theme of the 2014 conference is “Connect, Collaborate and Commit.” Those are three activities that small businesses try to execute every day. We Connect with government […]
Read moreOn Friday, April 4th, I participated in the initial taping of the new online executive Master of Health Administration (MHA) Degree Program. Taping was held at Henninger Media Services in Arlington, Virginia with two distinguished colleagues including: Jennifer Ford, Director, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Office of Health Information (OHI) Product Effectiveness […]
Read moreOn a late Friday evening, the Director of Membership Development and Industry Outreach with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) reached out to AEGIS to participate in the Spring 2014 Company Member Forum (CMF) Meeting. ANSI was looking for a global community leader in innovation of Health IT interoperability, testing, analytics, and informatics to participate […]
Read moreOn February 28, 2014, Open Health Tools (OHT) held a Board Meeting which aligned with HIMSS14, Orlando, FL. The meeting was held at the Orlando VA Medical Center. Mario G. Hyland (@interopguy), Senior Vice President and Founder of AEGIS.net, Inc. presented the concept and project charter of Advancing an Open Source Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) […]
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