From the Caristix website: "If you've seen our HL7 Survival Guide, you know it’s chockablock full of valuable information for interoperability and HL7 projects. We’re starting a series of brief snippets and actionable tips based on learnings from the Guide.

Use these tips to get your interoperability projects up and running, educate leadership on interoperability, and sell your vision."

This article breaks down best practices in beginning health information integration projects if you are a startup company or small business. Three main areas of integration project development are examined including scoping and designing the interface specification, addressing data flow issues and managing interface volume.

 From the Beacon Nation article: "The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides incentives to reduce hospital readmission rates through accountable care organizations, shared savings programs, and penalties. These strategies promote improved care management, especially at the point of dischargei, and encourage prevention of unnecessary utilization of hospital services. As a result, payers, hospitals and primary care practices have a strong business case to focus on improving care transitions and reducing avoidable readmissions and Emergency Department (ED) visits."

From the Caristix Website: "HL7 interfacing – you can’t live without it but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer as you work to connect the systems that make your environment hum along. This guide will help you get a firm grasp on all the challenges, standards, and choices you need to make along the way, whether you’re developing interfaces on your own or working with a third party."

From the Pennsylvania HIE YouTube page: "A brief history of how the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority was formed and how it is establishing statewide exchange of electronic medical records."