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Apr 09, 2012
I was recently at the at Interconnected Health 2012 conference in Chicago, and amongst the various topics being discussed, the most common theme popping up is the need for more standards to allow PHR, EMR and HIE networks to really take hold. I'm in no position to disagree with this, but I do find it interesting that an industry that uses so many acronyms (many of which represent existing data model and messaging standards) still feels like they don't have standards that are sufficient to solve their data integration challenges. Is it too much of a 'pie in the sky' idea to establish just a few data model and messaging standards that cover nearly all use cases, and expect wide adoption of the standard across the industry? Maybe it is.
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Mar 01, 2012
I am currently reading a great book about enterprise software entitled ‘How to Succeed in the Enterprise Software Market’ by Craig Le Clair. Even though the book was published back in 2005, many of the core ideas and principles still apply.
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Sep 22, 2011
It was a serious conversation. Nobody present remembers the topic. Everyone remembers a young person earnestly saying, “It’s just spilled milk between the bridge.” Some offshore data integration stories make me think of spilled milk between the bridge.
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Sep 15, 2011
Recently I was struggling with a stubborn-tempered air conditioner at home in Hotlanta this summer. This experience made me appreciate the importance of trusting someone who could respond to my needs timely, cost effectively and with the utmost competency. For those who have lived in Atlanta in August ,(or vacationed on the equator – it’s all the same) you learn to appreciate the luxurious benefits of a functioning air conditioner, and when it breaks down or does not perform as you expec,t it can be.….well let’s just say a bit more than just an inconvenience. With that said, it gave way to my thoughts around choosing a managed services partner who just makes things work and allows you to focus on your business, as a business should. As a managed service provider of integration and data management services, Liaison understands the importance of handing over your master data or integration operations to a competent service provider you can depend on and trust, because without it…it can be a pretty “hot seat” to be in.
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Aug 22, 2011
Information is power: to both the healthcare recommenders, the providers and the decision-makers, and you the patient. True that we often leave the decisions to our doctors, but it is often only you who understands the entire picture. Towards this end, a huge goal of health informatics is to "increase public capacity to access, analyze and disseminate data and information."
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Aug 03, 2011
“Programming by debugging” is taking something similar to what you want and adapting it until it becomes what you want. Contivo Analyst 5.0 lets you be guided by data to create maps. It still continues to let you use a more traditional approach — working with a mapping specification, and then testing the map with data. But version 5.0 lets you embed data into the mapping process in new ways, to let you work more efficiently and to use data samples as specification information.
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Jun 08, 2011
If you’re like most people, when you first think of Amsterdam, you think “Red Light” as in the Red Light District where window shopping and coffee shops are aplenty. But the kickoff of Liaison Convergence Europe was all about the “Green Light District” which is “all systems go” for cloud-based applications.
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