From the article by Caristix: "As the technical lead in a healthcare startup, you’ve been focused on building an application – for example, a clinical analytics application for cardiac care – that meets the needs of your market: healthcare organizations and their users. You’ve already determined product functionality. Now you need to figure out how to integrate this application with key systems in your customer’s care setting — a hospital, a physician practice, an HIE, or some other environment where data must be exchanged. Where do you start?"
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