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DSS and HLN Consulting Partner to Offer Enhanced Immunization Forecasting Solution
Press Release | Document Storage Systems, Inc., HLN Consulting | July 17, 2018
Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS), a leading provider of health information technology (HIT) solutions for federal, private and public healthcare organizations, announced that it has partnered with HLN Consulting to offer an enhanced forecasting solution that provides clinical decision support (CDS) for immunizations. HLN Consulting's open source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) is now interfaced with the DSS Immunization Dashboard (iDB), to bring patient-specific immunization forecasting to the provider without an interface to a registry. iDB provides a visualization of the patient's historical record from the treating facility, as well as information from the Immunization Registry.
Epic and Other EHR Vendors Caught in Dilemmas by APIs (Part 2 of 2)
Andy Oram | EMR and HIPAA | March 16, 2017
The first section of this article reported some news about Epic's Orchard, a new attempt to provide an "app store" for health care. In this section we look over the role of APIs as seen by EHR vendors such as Epic. Dr. Travis Good, with whom I spoke for this article, pointed out that EHRs glom together two distinct functions: a canonical, trusted store for patient data and an interface that becomes a key part of the clinician workflow. They are being challenged in both these areas, for different reasons...