How Building Self-Confidence Built a House

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Ever wonder how very successful people got to where they are now? Do you feel stuck in your career, behind the curve compared to your peers? Take heart, there are plenty of avenues open to you.  Developing faith in one’s abilities is a key factor in moving to the next level in your own professional…

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Take Any Step Forward

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by Ron Rex Perhaps a new view is needed… Research documents that as a human being, we can only entertain one emotion at a time. Perhaps that explains why sometimes we get stuck in an emotional state as a personality trait, even if the emotion is not in our interest. So how do we get…

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Lighthouse API

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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using an API program called Lighthouse to create innovative applications that improve care.  Lighthouse is an API program that gives developers secure access to VA data to develop innovative tools and services to support Veterans’ needs. VA created a streamlined, modern API development experience to build services that provide Veterans…

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Leading With Your Strengths

Jackie Mulrooney

Last week, J P Systems President, Jackie Mulrooney, had the opportunity to speak at Delaware State University’s Hornets Leadership Academy Leadership Development Session. The session was hosted by DSU’s Office of Undergraduate Research, Experiential Learning and Honors (URELAH), which prepares students for graduate school and the workforce. Because we are so passionate about leadership at…

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HL7 FHIR

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What exactly is Health Level 7’s FHIR®?  Healthcare data has to move. FHIR and other HL7 data standards provide guidelines and data structures so clinical data can move out of Electronic Health Records systems to the other providers who make up a care team. Clinicians need a complete picture of patient data for patient safety…

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Information Security Day – Focus on InfoSec

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We interviewed Ryan, our Cybersecurity lead and Senior Technical consultant to gain insights into staying safe at work and online. He guides our procedure and policy development here at JPSys to help them align to the ISO standard’s requirements. He does due diligence on scanning for vulnerabilities and performs remediation for information security systems. In this…

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VHIE Collaborative HRO CORE Presentation

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Interview with Sandi Mitchell, Claire English & Gay Stahr By Kayla Krawzyk Special Feature for the JPSys Pulse Newsletter reprinted for our blog. Sandi Mitchell and the Clinical Data Quality Team have been focused on the VA’s Journey to become a High Reliability Organization (HRO). Excitement rose when J P Systems, the VHIE Analytics and…

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Nursing Workflows and the Importance of Data Quality

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By Teresa Saxon, R.N.  Healthcare data quality analysis has many layers of complexity ranging from  discovery of anomalies  to how they are repaired. In simplified terms, poor data quality can be characterized by missing, miscoded or misplaced data in a patient’s record. Data quality is especially important in the nursing field since nurses interact with…

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The Importance of Immunization Reporting

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Vaccination records (sometimes called immunization records) provide a history of all the vaccines a patient has received. These records are important as they may be required for jobs, travel, or school. Immunization records are compiled by a patient’s medical providers consolidating their vaccinations and reporting them to Immunization Information Systems (IIS).  IIS’s are usually run…

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