The Benefits of Extending HealthShare’s SDA Data Model
InterSystems’ technology stack, anchored by its interoperability platform HealthShare, is widely recognized as a best-in-breed solution for securely sharing healthcare data across disparate systems. To simplify the transformation of data from different clinical sources, InterSystems developed a data model called SDA (Summary Document Architecture). SDA allows for a simplified transformation of various patient-related source messages […]
Legacy Clinical Data Archiving: Beyond a Historical Patient Snapshot
When a hospital system moves to a new healthcare information platform, a question that often comes up is, “At what point should legacy clinical systems be decommissioned?” Data from legacy clinical systems often must be easily accessible to users for operational, clinical, and compliance reasons. What to do with legacy systems? Keeping legacy clinical […]
Six Advantages of Telehealth for Patients
Telehealth refers to a broad scope of remote healthcare services. Applications for telehealth range from clinical (telemedicine) to mental health & substance abuse (telecounseling). Much is written about how telehealth can save time and money for hospitals, health systems, and other organizations. There is less emphasis on the other side of the coin—how telehealth benefits […]
Population Health Initiatives – Where Salesforce Health & Marketing Clouds Fit In
Healthcare is undergoing a revolutionary transformation driven by data, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and engagement platforms. Population Health seeks to identify and engage with at-risk patient populations to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Population health initiatives benefit patients, healthcare organizations, and the public. When overall population health improves, that means a higher quality of […]
How Salesforce Health Cloud Is Like LEGO Sets
If you don’t live and breathe a certain technology, it can be difficult to understand what it is and how it works. Like many people, I’m still trying to fully understand blockchain. I do, however, live and breathe Salesforce. Part of my job is to explain Salesforce and Salesforce Health Cloud to others. At Salesforce’s […]
Should you consider outside help for your next big interoperability project?
Interoperability has become more important than ever for ensuring patient safety. Large interoperability projects require a lot of resources for successful execution. Therefore, healthcare CIOs often need to consider whether to engage outside specialists to help manage the workload spike. If you do choose to augment your staff with a third party consulting team: What […]
