Archive for the ‘Use Case’ Category

Last week, we PASSED all of the interoperability tests for every IHE Profile we registered for at the IHE Connectathon in Chicago, including the Healthcare Provider Directory (HPD) Trial Implementation.  This means that any system or architecture that specifies HPD requirements can use our Provider Registry and therefore leverage all of our ...

At the "Transforming Hawaii's Healthcare: Analytics, Accountability & Action" conference, organized by Hawaii Health Information Corporation (HHIC), speakers discussed results, trends, insights, and predictions derived from large quantities of data provided by healthcare organizations of all types across the state.  The findings allowed hospitals, providers, and payers to see how they compared with peers and national averages.  Data sets included clinical ...

Accountable care organizations anticipate large clinical and financial benefits as a result of improved collaboration and coordination.  To support the data sharing requirements of this vision, a few IT updates are required. In an interview with Healthcare IT Connect, NextGate’s Joerg Schwarz describes the limitations of current IT environments and talks about the technical components that will support ACO requirements.  Read ...

Our article in the June issue of Health Management Technology explains the importance of patient identity matching as a foundation for any health IT initiative.  As the famous slot machine ad effectively shows, "close enough" isn't a winning strategy.  However, EMPI technology that uses probabilistic matching algorithms can convert "close enough" into a consolidated,

At NextGate we spend a fair amount of time talking with customers and prospects about their challenges with managing patient records and as you would expect, we hear some different use cases from time to time.  Not every EMPI implementation is the standard initial load from 3 systems matching records to remove duplicates, and then receive updates and match records ...