Mario Hyland Speaks at Johns Hopkins

AEGIS Senior Vice President and Founder, Mario Hyland (@interopguy) was invited to speak at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for the Health Sciences Informatics Grand Rounds speaker series.  The tradition of Medical Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins can be traced back to William Osler, the first professor of medicine, beginning in 1889. Although for a long […]

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Mario Hyland Appointed to the HL7® Architecture Board

In late October 2015, Mario Hyland (@Interopguy), Senior Vice President at AEGIS.net, Inc. was officially appointed to the Health Level International (HL7®) Architecture Board (ArB). The ArB is responsible for the architecture of the HL7 Standards. Mario’s role with the ArB is to work within the organization to market and refine future standards based architectures with […]

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AEGIS Newsletter Released Featuring Gartner Research

In our recently released AEGIS newsletter – we have conveyed to industry a number of visionary efforts to tackle the many challenges and barriers to interoperability and conformance testing. AEGIS and other industry experts are realizing the benefits from the return on investment (ROI) through coupling of Cloud-based Infrastructures (IaaS) and Testing Services (TaaS) in […]

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It’s Never Too Late to Change Your Major

I was recently asked by CIO Story magazine to provide a short article on some thoughts that apply to organizational leadership. A couple of things came to mind immediately as they have been frequent conversation topics of mine lately, both professionally and personally. Check out the article here – and let me know your own […]

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@Interopguy Featured in CIO Review Magazine

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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HHS OPA and Patagonia Health: Health IT Interoperability Thought Leadership

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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Feedback: The Grit That Polishes the Stones

Take a moment to Google “Steve Jobs rock tumbler” and one of the first results returned will be a YouTube clip from “The Lost Interview” of Steve Jobs by Robert Cringely. That’s always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they’re passionate about. It’s that through the team, […]

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Skype: Poster Child for Continuous Interoperability Testing

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 […]

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AEGIS Provides Industry Insight for the 2020 Vision: eHI’s Roadmap for Healthcare Transformation

On September 4th, 2014, Mario Hyland, Senior Vice President and Founder of AEGIS.net, Inc., attended the 2020 Roadmap Executive Summit hosted by eHealth Initiative. The eHealth Initiative 2020 Roadmap is a collaboration of leading healthcare associations, organizations, and federal agencies creating a shared vision of the strategies, policies, and actions that are required to fully […]

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Interoperability – Why is it Taking So Long?

AEGIS 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 […]

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