When it comes to thinking about your organization’s backup plan for when your systems and applications go down, there are three terms that you are likely to hear a lot: disaster recovery, high availability, and fault tolerance. While these terms are related to one another, it is worthwhile to know the differences between them and understand the role that...

An integration engine (and seriously, let’s stop calling it an interface engine, it does so much more) is an essential piece of healthcare’s technology infrastructure. Today, during this unprecedented global pandemic we need a highly reliable solution to integrate our data seamlessly. For hospitals, an integration engine is responsible for normalizing data and ushering information between all of... Source

The universal health data application programming interfaces called for in the 21st Century Cures Act present an opportunity to create the learning healthcare system that has been long envisioned. A learning healthcare system must be able to do more than conduct individual queries on one patient; it requires the ability to aggregate and analyze data … Continue reading "New...

Activities such as managing population health, delivering value-based care, and conducting discovery science require access to large population data sets. The existing FHIR and SMART APIs work well for accessing small amounts of data, but large exports perform poorly, requiring an impractical number of API requests to be issued serially. By adding asynchronous primitives to … Continue reading "Push...

HHS Announces Proposed Rule to Support the Reliability, Transparency, Accountability, and Safety of Certified Health IT ashish.pagar Mon, 02/06/2017 - 17:40 URL http://wayback.archive-it.org/3926/20170128073951/https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2016/03/01/hhs-announces-proposed-rule-support-reliability-transparency-accountability-and-safety-certified