Hello and welcome to the new Caristix blog! In this first post, we’ll cover a little background about what you can expect from this blog. And we’ll introduce the people who’ll be writing here.

HL7 Is Where It’s At

We’ll be covering interfaces, integration, and interoperability in healthcare information technology. Topics will include:

• software development and testing. What makes healthcare so different? We’ll be talking about that.
• HL7 interface scoping and configuration. HL7 is all about configurability. Which is why… Every. Single. Implementation. Is. Different. (whether we like it or not)
• interface maintenance and troubleshooting. Updates, bug fixes, upgrades, new products. Interfaces change all the time. How do you keep up?
• customer acceptance testing. Test patients, test orders, test messages. How do we as an industry make this easier for clinicians and vendors?

Plus we’ll provide customer stories, product news, tips and tricks, and opinions. It’ll be a mix of technical and business topics for interface analysts, software developers, testers, team leaders, and healthcare executives.

Meet the Bloggers

Jean-Luc Morin

Jean-Luc is the CEO at Caristix. Jean-Luc chose to work on the issues we address at Caristix because of something he’s noticed each time he’s worked with hospitals both big and small. He says that whenever the subject turned to interfacing, it seemed like the walls would start to shake. So Jean-Luc focuses on delivering tools that will make software implementations and interface configuration accessible and effortless for both vendors and hospitals.

On a personal level, Jean-Luc loves getting knee-deep in data, syntactically and semantically speaking. And interfacing is the perfect blend of both.

Learn more about Jean-Luc on LinkedIn

Denis Cantin

Denis is the Director, Business Development at Caristix. Denis chose to work on the issues that Caristix addresses because he knows we’ve identified a real need that interface analysts and their executives face. He feels that there has got to be a better, simpler way to deploy healthcare software and interfaces than what he’s seen in previous implementations: plain text editors for HL7 message logs and long lists of paper-based specs. Healthcare technology can be a whole lot easier for hospitals (and vendors) to digest if they have the right tools.

He’s also excited about working with a group of people who have a singular focus on delivering tools / services that make software implementations and interface configuration accessible and effortless for both vendors and hospitals.

Learn more about Denis on LinkedIn

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