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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Protecting Patient Data in HL7 Logs

By sovita.chander@caristix.com | Published: January 28, 2011
Information Week ran an article this week on protecting patient data. The article wasn’t on one of the usual suspects — a HIPAA violation or a breach in a production system. Instead, this was notable because we’re finally seeing one of the hidden dangers in healthcare IT coming to light: unsecured patient data sitting in [...]
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Guest Post on Healthcare IT Guy

By sovita.chander@caristix.com | Published: January 12, 2011
Jean-Luc Morin, VP R&D at Caristix, has a guest post on Shahid Shah’s blog, Healthcare IT Guy. Shahid’s top-ranked blog covers healthcare IT, EMR, EHR, PHR, medical content, and document management. Jean-Luc’s article covers 6 questions hospital CIOs and IT directors should be asking vendors about interface documentation. Here’s an excerpt: At first glance, documentation [...]
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Will HL7 V3 Adoption Take Off in 2011? 5 Points and 1 Caveat

By jeanluc.morin@caristix.com | Published: January 4, 2011
A few weeks ago, I was working on an HL7 v3 project with an outside partner and the discussion turned to market adoption. We came to the conclusion that it’s not exactly taking off — at least, not as quickly as you might expect. Apart from meaningful-use initiatives around CDA in the US and the [...]
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