Our friends at Carevive adapted their Redox Integration Strategy Kit for a delightful blog post on how we do integration. Redox customers all get a customized Integration Strategy Kit to better prepare them to work with their health system customers. Here's their arcticle:

I was listening to the recent B/ podcast (recommended) in which Tien Tzuo described the metaphor of walking customers through "three rooms" as startups share their offerings. I thought I'd quickly recap then share how Redox is transforming our message based on these learnings.

On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of attending MD Anderson's IS Vendor Summit in Houston. Imagine a room of 200 enterprise sales executives at the edge of their seats listening to how MD Anderson's transition to Epic may or may not affect their prospects with the world's largest cancer center. The usual conversations were accented by beads of sweat organizing in military formation on the tips of noses, bayonets at the ready.

In part 1 of this series I gave a high-level overview of what HL7 is and does. In part 2 I outlined what integration profiles are and why we need them. 

HIStalk recently released these poll results: “Which #1 reason would cause you to avoid doing business with startups?” 

This one is just for fun to close out the week.

Lolcommits takes a snapshot with your webcam every time you git commit code, and archives a lolcat style image with it. Follow the steps below to integrate it with Slack:

Over the past decade, we’ve spent billions to digitize healthcare. Health IT was to bring us the same exponential efficiency gains that computers and the Internet brought nearly every other industry. But now that rooms of paper have transitioned into rooms of servers and swarms of software vendors attempt to surf the wakes of legacy EHRs, the acute impact of this stoic transition begin to appear. Some of these newly diagnosed alignments are approaching risk of epidemic.

Managing patient IDs in healthcare IT is difficult. There's no way around it. Patient P at Health System H might have 20 different identifiers; at least one per software vendor, and in the case of the major EHRs like Epic and Cerner, they could have 5 different IDs for one patient just within that system. And, of course, when you look up that same patient in a different health system, they will have a completely new set of IDs.

In healthcare, about ⅓ of each dollar spent doesn’t improve health. That’s around $750 billion dollars of waste per year--as much as the US spent in the first 9 years on military efforts Iraq. 

In a HL7 press release on Thursday, a group composed of the largest EHR vendors, some leading health systems, and other industry leaders have come together to launch the Argonaut Project. Their stated goal is to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, a standard for RESTful API in healthcare.

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