How The City of Houston reduced the cost of non-emergency 911 EMS calls

Houston Fire Department Ambulance

Not every 911 call is a true emergency. When non-emergency cases occupy first response vehicles, dispatch center call lines, and ER waiting rooms, emergency response systems throughout the US become unnecessarily burdened. These cases divert responders and critical equipment away from the real emergencies, wasting time, resources, and potentially delaying care for those who need […]

A Look Back At SHIEC 2019

Administrator Verma Speaking at SHIEC 2019

Attendees at this year’s annual Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) conference experienced a high-energy event filled with excellent case studies, discussions, and thought leadership. The annual conference has grown rapidly over the past few years. This year, SHIEC hosted over 600 HIE industry professionals at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National […]

Today’s Healthcare Call Center And The Role of Cloud Software

Healthcare Call Center

There are some excellent cloud technologies available to Healthcare Call Centers. These include Salesforce Health Cloud and Cloud Contact Center Software from Vonage’s NewVoiceMedia. But before we get into the technology, let’s look at healthcare call centers from a strategic level. […]

InterSystems Pulse Blog: Legacy Data Archiving

PULSE - Clinical Legacy Data Archiving

When you deploy a new system, the questions that inevitably come next are: When should we decommission the legacy system? And what do we do with all that data? For ideas and first steps, join us at the InterSystems Pulse blog where J2 CTO Mickey Yalon recently authored a guest post about legacy data archiving. […]

CRM Field Service Software For Medical Device Manufacturers

Field service software adds value to any type of organization that dispatches service technicians to customer locations. Even among smaller teams, using whiteboards and spreadsheets to manage and track field techs is unwieldy. There are measurable improvements with field service software—teams can maximize staff utilization and provide a higher level of customer service. When field […]