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Reducing Manual Work through HL7 Interface Lifecycle Management

Caristix was selected to present at Interconnected Health 2012 recently, and we focused on a new concept, HL7 Interface Lifecycle Management. Up till now, there’s been a sort of unspoken assumption in the industry: interfacing is a linear event based on simple drag-and-drop configuration within an interface engine. However, if you look at all of [...]
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What Are the Pitfalls of HL7 Interfacing?

One of the things we realized when we formed Caristix is that the biggest pitfall in HL7 interfacing isn’t coding or setting up the interface. With modern interface engines, that’s relatively easy. The real struggle is knowing how a system is constructed, where the gaps are, and what needs to be coded – this drives [...]
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Beta Program for New Caristix Application

We’re now accepting beta users for a new software application that will simplify the scoping of HL7 integration projects. Who’s Eligible Hospital IT team members who work on healthcare integration, interfacing, and HL7. Limited to hospital employees in the US and Canada. About the Product The software enables healthcare IT analysts and developers to grasp [...]
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8 Stages in an HL7 Interface Lifecycle

While clinical end-users count on interfaces to deliver the functionality and interoperability they need, IT stakeholders need to be sure everyone involved gets the steps and costs involved. Especially since interfacing takes up 20 to 40% of an implementation project timeline. Here’s a quick overview to get everyone on the same page. Scoping An interface [...]
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