Connectathons are at risk of devolving into check-the-box participation and demonstration events. Let’s fix that. Not that long ago, health IT implementers attended annual (IHE) Connectathon events to test and polish their nearly-ready-for-production (most advanced) implementations. This was (and they still are) a big deal, with significant costs to register, prepare and attend. IHE Connectathon […]
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Join us once again Nov. 3-4, 2021 for two days of hands-on HL7® FHIR® and AEGIS Touchstone training with our expert team of FHIR developers. AEGIS has trained hundreds of developers to build with HL7 FHIR using Touchstone, our cloud-based platform that supports FHIR conformance as you build. Whether you are new to HL7 FHIR or looking […]
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Wishing everyone a restful weekend and offering some traditional “Sunday funnies” – not to mention a fun, easy way to see why testing is so important – with our very own Dr. Interoperability 🙂 Artistic credit: Jaymie Y. Im
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I saw a horse pulling a carriage the other day and noticed that the horse had blinders on. Blinders are those square pieces of leather on the side of each of the horse’s eyes. It prevents the horse from becoming distracted and allows it to focus on moving ahead when trotting among the city traffic. […]
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The AEGIS team had the pleasure of attending the HL7 Patient Access API Implementation Virtual Event, held August 17-19th, 2020. The Implementation Event was designed for organizations looking to focus on the technical and functional requirements for Patient Access APIs by payers in the context of CMS/ONC final rule and implementation deadlines. HL7 Implementation and […]
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Like a lot of businesses, AEGIS is anxious about how to help with the global coronavirus crisis. While we have provided information technology support to many business sectors including healthcare, finance, and transportation logistics, we admit we’re not on the front line of the current challenges, and we have great respect and appreciation for those […]
Read moreIf you are building an HL7® FHIR® client or server, you need Touchstone in your life. Join us at AEGIS World Headquarters in Rockville, Maryland September 24 & 25 for a two-day training program presented by Richard Ettema. AEGIS’ FHIR and Touchstone training course offers an introduction to the HL7 FHIR specification, in-depth tutorials on […]
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Last week, several of us from the AEGIS team attended ONC’s third annual Interoperability Forum at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC. We were pleased to see the level of excitement and even optimism about the industry’s progress toward achieving true interoperability among systems using electronic health information. We continue to see the involvement of […]
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Several large healthcare payers will make history this weekend at a Hyatt in San Antonio as the HL7 Da Vinci Project sets out to test their first four use cases at the HL7 FHIR Connectathon. The membership of this highly collaborative project consists of several large payers, providers, and partner technology companies that have set […]
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MITRE, AEGIS and ONC Author Study on Tools to Support FHIR Compliance, Health Data Interoperability Testing BEDFORD, Mass. and ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Frequent and thorough software testing has clear positive implications for health data interoperability according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Medical Informatics. The study, […]
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