Becoming Technology Geeks: Check! Let me start out by thanking all the clinicians, public servants, technologists, industry leaders and patient advocates who have fought tirelessly (in some case for decades) to advance health IT as far as it has come. At the macro level, the state of health IT is worlds ahead of where it was […]
Read moreIncreasing the Efficiency and Expanding the Scope of Interoperability Testing and Verification for Healthcare Exchange Participants To kick off National Health IT Week, AEGIS.net, Inc. announces the production release 3.0 of the Developers Integration Lab (DIL). The DIL empowers all healthcare stakeholders with evidence-based verification that health information exchange participants and leading EHR products conform […]
Read moreThis is the second in our series about success at the 2015 IHE Connectathon. If you haven’t read the first post about the urgency of registration (and getting that right), you really need to. Now. Really. (I’ll wait.) Technical Preparation Now that you have read that post and are hopefully in high gear on completing the […]
Read moreAEGIS’ Senior Consultant and HIMSS-NCA President-Elect, Barry Dickman, will co-moderate the monthly program – Creating the Marketplace for Health Innovation: Public-Private Partnerships – Success Stories of Transformational Models. This educational session highlights the numerous public-private partnerships (P3) as a mechanism by government to finance better healthcare infrastructure, biomedical research and clinical service delivery. They represent […]
Read moreAEGIS invests a lot of resources in support of advancing interoperability of electronic health information. The AEGIS DIL provides an unparalleled platform for helping EHR vendors, exchanges, standards organizations, and certification bodies test for interoperability and conformance. But there is one critical aspect of interoperability that no technology can fix – that is, the inertia of […]
Read moreThinking about joining the AEGIS DIL team in attending the 2015 IHE Connecathon? It’s that time of year again, and we are reminded that this annual January event can really sneak up on you if you don’t start taking action–immediately. To appreciate why we say “immediately,” take a look at this 2015 Connectathon timeline overview: System registration has […]
Read moreAEGIS joins 22 other distinguished organizations as the latest HL7 Benefactor. As an HL7 Benefactor, AEGIS supports HL7’s important efforts toward streamlined development, implementation and adoption of industry-critical standards, specifications and products. “AEGIS is pleased to be an HL7 Benefactor,” stated Mario Hyland, Senior Vice President & Founder at AEGIS. Mr. Hyland explains, “AEGIS continues to […]
Read moreThe 2014 Defense Health Information Technology Symposium (DHITS) was held last week in Orlando, FL. AEGIS attendance and participation in the event capitalized on our ever-growing role we play in the “continuous interoperability” challenges that have plagued the DoD in its development of an integrated electronic health record. AEGIS received up-to-date information on the strategic […]
Read moreThis past week marked the first time AEGIS participated in the Open Source Convention (OSCON) at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. OSCON is where all of the pieces come together: developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors. Mario Hyland and I participated and spoke on behalf of Open Health Tools (OHT) CONNECT Program, Open Source […]
Read moreYesterday I participated on behalf of AEGIS in a briefing to U.S. House Representative Gene Green who represents the Houston area. I was invited by HIMSS along with executives from a few other member companies including Orion Health, Allscripts, Humetrix, and the Institute for e-Health Policy. The purpose of the session was to help Rep. Green […]
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