The electronic transmission of adverse event information to stakeholders, using the International Conference on Harmonisation “E2B” standard, is an essential component of global drug safety and pharmacovigilance operations. E2B(R3), the latest version of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) standard, includes new requirements with which product manufacturers and the organizations that […]
Posts Tagged ‘HL7’
Handling HL7 Data Using Apache Camel and JBoss Fuse
Introduction HL7 is a healthcare related data format created by Health Level Seven International for electronic interchange of health information used in clinical practice, management and evaluation of health services. Over the years HL7 International Organization has defined standards for exchanging data between various medical entities and systems dubbed as HL7 Data Format. Background Why […]
Solving Transformation and Routing of an EDI 837 Health Claim
Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standard-developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services. We use these standards to communicate and exchange information at the […]
15 Health IT Standards and Interoperability Rockstars to Know
Health IT Standards and Interoperability Rockstars to Know from Perficient, Inc. Health IT standards and health information interoperability are at the forefront of the healthcare industry. There are many challenges, unanswered questions and interested parties when it comes to the development of health IT standards and interoperability in healthcare. While advocates and leaders of standards […]
Hot Topic: Retail Strategy for Healthcare #HITsm Tweet Chat
Participants of a tweet chat hosted by HL7 Health Standards on Friday, March 6, certainly had a lot to say on the topic: A Real Retail Strategy for Healthcare. The hour-long session drew 104 healthcare professionals who posted 980 tweets in response to five questions centered how the industry could benefit from the retail industry’s […]
Healthcare Interoperability – Motivators for Change
Having many siloed healthcare applications that don’t easily exchange information has been the trademark of health information technology, denying patients and providers the benefits that interoperable health information makes possible. Government regulations and the evolving healthcare landscape enforce the need for interoperability throughout the continuum of care. Integrated systems streamline data sharing, support population health […]
What I Learned at Oracle Open World, #OOW13
Oracle OpenWorld 2013 turned out to be one of my best experiences with a trade-show ever! I made new contacts, I learned about product strategy and I learned about awesome customer stories related to innovative healthcare solutions. Perficient’s Lesli Adams @lesliadams provided innovative solution overviews highlighting healthcare business intelligence solutions #OBIEE for Patient Centered Medical […]
It is time for Interoperability to catch fire! (FHIR(R) that is)
One of my healthcare consulting friends once said that interoperability was difficult because healthcare was interactional, not transactional. The interactive nature of the healthcare organization and the patient foretells the complexity of integrating and sharing information that is so critical to reducing costs, increasing patient safety and streamlining productivity. The challenge is inertia – we […]
Quality Reporting Data Architecture (QRDA) Primer
One of the key ways to improve productivity in healthcare is to become more efficient at interoperability within a healthcare organization and between healthcare organizations. Sharing quality reporting results is a good example of a healthcare area faced with challenges in interoperability and efficiency. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, the United […]
EHRs, Analytics, Utilization and Population Health
Spurred on by Meaningful Use, there has been an explosion in the implementation of EHRs over the last several years. This tidal wave has been sweeping through the healthcare community, sucking up much of the available bandwidth that organizations have to deal with change of this magnitude. The effect is really no different than what […]
The ABCs of the CCD – Part I of III
CCD is an acronym that stands for “Continuity of Care Document”. The CCD is a file that uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) format, which could have one of 3 different structure levels. I will explain the various structure levels in Part III of this blog series. A CCD contains patient related information that could be […]
Is it time for Open Source in Healthcare?
From time to time, it is a good idea to re-evaluate potential IT architectures especially with the cost reduction pressures in healthcare IT. The growth in maturity of several key players in the open source software arena is gaining the attention and respect of healthcare IT decision-makers and worth evaluation as a lower cost alternative. […]