DIL 3.0 Alpha – A Sneak Peak into Accelerated Interoperability

The AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL) team celebrated the Alpha release of DIL 3.0 last week, and we are proud to share some of the highlights here as a preview of the public DIL 3.0 release scheduled for late August: Seamless support of multiple test systems under a single participant account, thanks to a redesigned data model […]

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AEGIS Responds to the FDASIA Report

AEGIS provided comments on the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) Health IT Report: Proposed Risk Based Regulatory Framework (the “FDASIA Report”). We are assisting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Office of The National Coordinator (ONC), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other government, public and industry stakeholders as they […]

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AEGIS DIL Helps Healtheway Validate eHealth Exchange Products

Healtheway announced today the successful validation of the first products participating in the eHealth Exchange. AEGIS is proud to have provided the AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL) as the testing platform Healtheway is using to conduct its conformance testing program. Check out Healtheway’s press release for more details on this great success for health information […]

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How Do We Move the Ball Forward on Achieving Interoperability?

On June 23, 2014, AEGIS was invited by Janet M. Marchibroda, Director, Health Innovation Initiative and Executive Director, CEO Council on Health and Innovation to participate in a roundtable discussion on Advancing Interoperability and Electronic Information Sharing To Support Improvements in Health and Health Care. Other distinguished participants included organizations such as the American Medical […]

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AEGIS Moderates HTRAC Panel

This past week AEGIS attended and hosted a panel at the 2014 HealthTech Research Advisory & Council (HTRAC) – East Council Meeting held at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, VA. AEGIS’ Senior Vice President, Mario Hyland (@interopguy), led a panel discussion on Data to Dollars: How Health Information Sharing, Interoperability and Standards can Improve Care. […]

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What is Conformance Testing and how does it relate to Interoperability?

As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline implementation of interoperability standards, AEGIS has worked with several Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and Health Information Exchanges that have either piloted or launched Conformance or Compliance Testing Programs. These Programs help healthcare IT developers speed time to market by providing a cost-effective platform for ongoing, iterative testing of conformance […]

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AEGIS Mentioned Again in the Monthly ONC Standards and Interoperability Framework Newsletter

AEGIS has been mentioned again for the second time in the Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework newsletter for our active participation in the HL7 Work Group Meeting and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards (FHIR®) Connectathon. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) launched the S&I Framework in January 2011. The S&I Framework works with […]

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AEGIS to Host the June 2014 – Open Health Tools (OHT) Board Meeting

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 […]

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HIMSS-NCA Chapter Elects AEGIS’ Barry Dickman as Vice President/President-Elect

AEGIS 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 […]

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