Are you ready to interoperate? Mario Hyland (@interopguy), Senior Vice President and Founder of AEGIS chairs the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) Interoperability Work Group (IWG). The OSEHRA IWG is aimed at promoting the importance of testing for interoperability and standards conformance in the electronic exchange of health information. The IWG will mobilize […]
Read moreMore than 35,000 healthcare industry professionals are expected to attend HIMSS14 in Orlando this month to discuss health IT issues and view innovative technologies and systems designed to transform healthcare. AEGIS is proud to be an exhibitor at this annual event that helps health IT professionals find the right solutions for their organizations. One of the […]
Read moreThe Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise’s (IHE) Connectathon is a 5-day event (Jan 27th-Jan 31st) in which participants from all over the world come to test healthcare system interoperability. Interoperability is tested when a participant brings a system and undergoes a series of scenario-based tests to verify that their system can send, receive, and read data to/from […]
Read moreAEGIS will be attending and participating in the upcoming West Health Institute’s “Health Care Innovation” series of 2014: Igniting an Interoperable Health Care System. The HCI-DC conference will be held on February 6, 2014 in Washington, DC. (HCI-DC). The Gary and Mary West Health Institute (WHI) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) […]
Read moreAEGIS will actively participate in the upcoming 2014 Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Annual Meeting on January 23-24 in Washington, DC. This meeting occurs on the heels of Dr. Karen DeSalvo, MD starting her role as the new National Coordinator. AEGIS staff will engage in the wide-range of training sessions, covering EHR certification, […]
Read moreAEGIS will actively participate in the 2014 IHE North American Conference in Chicago, IL January 27 – 31. We will be directly involved in the Connectathon testing leveraging the AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL). AEGIS staff will be testing its IHE profiles against other participants at the Connectathon. Systems that support IHE Integration Profiles work […]
Read moreAEGIS will attend and participate in the Health Level Seven (HL7) Working Group Meeting in San Antonio, TX from January 18-25. At the event, we will be involved in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards (FHIR®) Connectathon as well as several working group sessions including CDC Immunization, Security, and others. Mario Hyland, Senior Vice President at […]
Read moreThe HIMSS – NCA offers a free lunch and learn webinar program opportunity for its membership and stakeholders in the National Capital Area to complement its regular, third Thursday monthly meeting topics. This free lunchtime webinar serves as an opportunity for a deeper dive into the topic previously covered at the monthly meeting and is held […]
Read moreAs a stepping stone to the OSEHRA Interoperability Work Group (IWG) – AEGIS will participate in the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) University webinar on “Testing 1, 2, 3…: The Importance of Consistent Testing to Continuous Interoperability” on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM (ET). AEGIS will be joined by distinguished speakers including: Kate […]
Read more“How do we test health IT interoperability?” is a deceptively simple question. To get to a complete answer, let’s build a definition of “Health IT Interoperability.” To get started, let’s take the advice of Dr. Doug Fridsma at ONC: The IEEE Standard Computer Dictionary defines interoperability as “the ability of two or more systems or […]
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