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Have you faced the difficulties dealing with connectivity and the various formats of the different EMR vendors?  Many vendors want encounter numbers, order numbers and sub-indexes returned with the laboratory results, and without this information your lab...

Your facility has a need to setup an HL7 to HL7 interface and you run into brick walls with connectivity issues and data formats.  This is not an uncommon situation because HL7 is not standard even within the same version, much alone across versions i.e....

Stay CLIA compliant by giving your patients secure access to lab resultsImprove patient engagement According to the Federal Register, a final rule which amends the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and the Health Insurance Portability and...

Every healthcare company wants to believe their data is safe from would-be hackers and other prying eyes. But the truth is, there are several risks that may exist in your data network that could be avoidable. Let's explore some of the biggest flaws in data security...

Cybersecurity is an increasing threat to healthcare companies, but there's a larger threat looming within the potential for cyber attacks: HIPAA compliance of digital healthcare assets. Last year was the target of two severe healthcare data breaches, making it one of...

Healthcare has a lot of moving parts that must work together to deliver optimal services for their patients. But bringing all the departments and components of a healthcare system under a single management tool isn't just challenging - at times, it can seem nearly...

by William Seay What better way for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathologists to deliver, present, and archive patient test results for their physician clients, providers, accountable care organizations (ACO), and payers than from a secure and cost-efficient...

Interoperability in healthcare includes both complete access to essential clinical and diagnostic data that is appropriately aggregated and normalized for meaningful use in clinical decision-making by physicians and providers, as well as healthcare analytics and...