Healthcare Data Insights
Practical guides, integration best practices, and healthcare data strategy — written by engineers and strategists who live in this space every day.
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Don’t Overlook Metadata Management: Key to Effective Data Strategy
Do you have a plan for metadata management? Do you know what metadata is? As the professional world has shifted online to platforms like Microsoft Teams and other business collaboration websites and apps, the data companies produce has proliferated exponentially, in the form of emails, chats, notes, documents, spreadsheets, and more. Domo has reported that … Read more
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FHIR Standard: Don’t Get Burned
We’ll admit it, it’s true: FHIR standard isn’t exactly new. The initial draft of FHIR was published in 2011, which in tech years is ancient. HL7, which it’s built on top of, is decades old. Although it’s been adopted here and there for a decade, it’s still not exactly everywhere. So why should you care … Read more
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FHIR, who cares?
My effort for this article was to do some research on past literature concerning data integration. My findings are not really surprising but are very predictive. Let’s look at a prediction from nine years ago by a leader in health data integration, Eliot Muir, CEO of Interfaceware. Eliot penned this as a comment to an … Read more
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Ready? Aim and FHIR with Vorro
The 21st Century Cures Act mandates that healthcare providers support “increasing interoperability and access to patient-level data.” Much of this takes effect in July 2021. In addition, healthcare professionals must provide patient access to data by December 2022. Despite the pandemic making implementing new interoperability methods difficult, there is a simple solution: the Fast Healthcare … Read more
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Why Data Integration in Healthcare Matters?
Let’s face it: Between patient files that need to be faxed to legal documents that need to be signed, the amount of data healthcare professionals deal with daily can be overwhelming. With new technological advancements like digital imaging and electronic medical records, the amount of data produced in the healthcare industry is growing exponentially, and … Read more
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Surviving Without Data — Not in Today’s World
Every transaction, interaction, and communication between a business and its customers leads to one thing: data. Businesses will often collect this data and store it without knowing what it can be used for. Some companies may even choose to ignore this data, completely unaware of all of the benefits that it can provide. Surviving without … Read more
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FHIR Implementation and Healthcare
More than ever, data interoperability has become paramount for healthcare providers who need a quick and accurate way to exchange information. FHIR in Healthcare is essential for achieving seamless data exchange. This is where the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, or FHIR, comes in. After its introduction, it quickly became one of the most popular methods for … Read more
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Vorro participates in FHIR Connectathon 25
Vorro is proud to participate as a track lead for this fall’s virtual HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Connectathon 25. The conference is three days (September 9-11) of hands-on FHIR development and testing. It provides a great opportunity for implementers and developers to gain experience developing FHIR-based solutions. Vorro has participated previously in the … Read more
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Visit Vorro at SHIEC!
The SHIEC Conference is virtual this year! From August 17 – September 15, Vorro will be attending and participating in various events and invites you to stop by our virtual booth! Learn more here. SHIEC is a national collaborative representing more than 81 health information exchanges (HIEs). This meeting brings together the HIE community … Read more
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Data Automation: Simplifying Business Processes
The good Captain’s signature phrase. It is actually a common phrase in military history. A commander often uses it when acknowledging and agreeing with a subordinate’s suggestion or proposed course of action. The commander simply responds, “Make it so.” If only it were that easy in this era of intense competition. One in which it … Read more
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Easy Data Integration, Myth, Lies, or Legend
Data is taking over the world and making sure that you have a firm understanding of your data can help your business gain a key competitive advantage. Specific sectors such as health care can truly take advantage of their data and improve their overall customer experience and business efficiencies. However, some people perceive data integration … Read more
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Three Pitfalls of Integration Projects
Why do integration projects fail? Budget, human resources, technology, regulatory issues and timing all impact a project. These are all details that have to be considered. However, I want to ask you to take a step back. If you get mired down in the details too soon, your projects will flail about aimlessly. There are … Read more
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Reinventing Education
April 2020 set unprecedented records in school closures, impacting an estimated 124,000 public and private K-12 schools. Yes, the pandemic is a healthcare crisis the likes of which we have not seen in many years, which has also caused unprecedented disruption in the field of education. This highlights the urgent need for reinventing education to … Read more
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Data-Driven Retail Solutions in the Wake of Covid-19
The rapid spread of the COVID-19 crisis has brought with it dire consequences. The disruption to daily life has been astonishing. Schools are closed, employees are working remotely, and overall economic uncertainty exists as the world wrestles with a new normal. Unfortunately, businesses are closing rapidly as states enforce “stay at home” orders as part … Read more
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A Revolution in Healthcare – Telehealth Today
We all look forward to the next piece of cutting-edge technology. With constant upgrades in smartphones, operating systems, gaming consoles, and television sets, our “speed of light” society intrinsically anticipates the next advancement. When it comes to our healthcare, especially in today’s climate, there is no exception. That’s why both providers and the patients they … Read more
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Vorro: Fast and Easy
Traditionally, integrating your data involves a costly and complex process to turn unusable and unstructured data into a clunky dashboard. Vorro solves this problem by turning the once tedious data integration and management task into a simple, streamlined process. Thus, your data doesn’t turn into a labor-intensive task needing significant time and money before showing … Read more
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Data Automation Kills Jobs!
In the old world, a few decades ago—let’s say back to the nostalgic 70s and 80s—the days of the Apple II, TRS-80, or the mighty Commodore 64. Sometime shortly after 1984, society predicted the eradication of manual labor jobs due to computer-controlled robots. Here we are, a mere 36 years later, finally seeing it. Who … Read more
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Are You Looking for a Competitive Edge?
Do you have the information you need to best serve your clients? Are you able to deliver the best service available in your industry? Do you know what your customers want? If you are not taking advantage of everything proper data integration offers, your organization is operating at a competitive disadvantage and missing out on … Read more
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Making the Unusable Usable: What Does Your Data Do For You?
Storing large quantities of unusable data? Not sure how to access or leverage that data and turn it in to actionable intelligence? As technology changes and systems grow, many times companies are left saddled with too much of the unusable type. This ties up resources, adds cost to the bottom line and often denies decision makers … Read more
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There are Only Two Types of Data
Industry leading data solutions company, Vorro, not only solves data integration issues for clients, we also have a great interest in creating smarter approaches to handling and understanding data. First, it is important to understand that there are really only two types of data. It may seem like common sense, but it is something that … Read more
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The importance of data integration in healthcare
There are all kinds of patient data being collected in healthcare. Such data is gathered around the clock directly or indirectly, and in all care and wellness settings. Effective data integration in healthcare ensures that this data is used efficiently to enhance patient care and streamline operations. Providers, vendors, and payors, in acute and post-acute … Read more
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The value of data integration – Visit us at SHIEC 2018
We, at Vorro, are looking forward to seeing you and other customers next week. We will be showcasing our Data Integration and Connectivity platform and demonstrating the value of data integration by connecting clinical and business data. Vorro provides a robust, cloud-based, data integration platform that readily connects disparate technologies and applications. The result is … Read more
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Is the world really on FHIR?
Everyone by now has heard the term FHIR, which stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Well, the implementation has been anything but fast. When FHIR first hit, the best application was to use it with mobile devices to narrowly scope the data that was being exchanged. The use cases were few and far between, mainly … Read more
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The Cheese Keeps Moving in Health Care
It all began with the “sneakernet.” If we needed to get data moved from one person to the other, it was delivered on foot. That meant it could take a long time to send/receive data. The positive aspect was that one could send and receive it as is. Secondly, you did not have to create … Read more
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