Articles about our Health IT practice area.
Last week marked the first time AEGIS participated in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Symposium in Washington, DC. AMIA members, students, practitioners, informatics researchers, industry partners, and others interested in the rapidly emerging field of informatics participated in the three day event filled with a plethora of panels and presentations. We were intrigued by AMIA’s […]
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The HL7 International 2014 Policy Conference will take place in Washington, DC December 4-5. This year’s theme is “Building the Future: Innovation & Interoperability.” I will participate as a panelist discussing “Standards Maturity: Where the Rubber Hits the Road.” I’ll be joined by an all-star cast from HL7, SAMSHA, the ACP, CAL2CAL, Siemens Healthcare, and […]
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CIO Review’s 20 Most Promising Healthcare Consulting Providers edition published in October features AEGIS Founder and Senior Vice President, Mario Hyland, or “@Interopguy” as he’s known in the Twitter universe. Mario was interviewed by CIO Review and provided his insights as to how better testing of health IT systems leads to improved patient safety. In […]
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AEGIS is thrilled to be recently selected by HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA) to leverage our Developers Integration Lab (DIL) and our passion for health IT interoperability to advance the OPA Family Planning Profile (FPP) at the 2015 IHE Connectathon and 2015 HIMSS Interoperability Showcase. For this engagement, the AEGIS team is implementing the Form Processor […]
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Incomplete Regression Testing = Production Defects Skype pushed out a new release last week to Mac users. (According to their blog, they also apparently pushed out a “preview release” to Windows users, but I don’t know if they are affected by the bug I found.) Like any software team, the Skype team does this on a regular […]
Read moreTony Meyer, President of the Board of the Directors for the HIMSS-NCA kicked off the first program of the 2014-2015 season with a resounding, “We’re going to mixed things up this year!” As President-Elect for next year, I will be working beside Tony to bring the chapter to new heights. This will include increased membership participation, timely […]
Read moreAs the guy ranting at my fellow health IT community members about not making rapid enough progress in bringing interoperability to the point of care, it was tough for me to feel enthusiastic going into today’s ONC webinar entitled “Advancing Interoperability Through Standards – Health Information Exchange Governance.” On balance, however, I was pleasantly surprised. Governance History […]
Read moreBecoming 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 […]
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