The Women of JPSys

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THE WOMEN OF JPSYS (WOJ) Archive J P SYSTEMS is a Woman Owned Business (WOSB) and Woman’s Business Enterprise (WBE). We pro-actively develop and promote women to serve in their fullest capacity possible. As we are a virtual company, while you are getting up at O’dark thirty and fighting traffic, we are safely home asleep…

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The Terminology You Use to Describe Healthcare Data Matters

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 An Argument for Standardized Reference Terminologies One hundred and forty, 140 – that’s how many different ways there are to describe arterial hypertension, more frequently known as high blood pressure. It may seem small, but if 140 different hospitals use 140 different terms for arterial hypertension, suddenly, 140 hospitals can’t exchange native data with each other.…

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Data Has to Move at the Speed of Care!

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In Healthcare IT, clinical data needs to move!  Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) need to send data both internally, such as other domain-focused applications like the Blood Bank, PACS System, Nurse Staffing, Sepsis Management, Respiratory, Wound Care, and Fetal Monitoring and and externally to another provider or the CDC. If your EHR can’t effectively exchange data within…

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When Will Life Get Back to Normal after C-19?

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This coronavirus, SARS CoV-2 (COVID-19), has changed our way of life. Many are tired of social distancing, wearing masks, and economic uncertainty. We really want to know when things will get back to normal!  Unfortunately, it is hard to put an end date on a pandemic. In the U.S., uncertainty is heightened around the phases of…

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Introduction to Interoperability 101

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by Jackie Mulrooney, President, J P Systems, Inc.   What is meant by the interoperability of clinical data? Interoperability (IOP) is a multifaceted IT architectural capability which harmoniously orchestrates the exchange of clinical data. In Healthcare IT (HIT), according to HIMSS: “interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and…

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The Strengths and Weaknesses of the HL7 FHIR Messaging Standard

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Healthcare IT Data Standards: FHIR  Health Level Seven’s (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a new interoperability standard that has rapidly captured the mind-share of the Health Information Technology (HIT) standards community. FHIR is a standard that enables healthcare data sharing between systems in a manner that is more easily implemented and more expressive…

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The Story of State Immunization Registries

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(Standards and Data Registries Done Right) By Lisa Erickson Have the sending  or receiving of COVID-19 immunization data at the top of your mind? J P Systems works to connect organizations using standardized HL7 messaging for vaccine reporting purposes. We thought the story of the birth of the first immunization registry would be a timely topic.…

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A Brief Review of CMS and ONC Rulings

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By David C. Kibbe, MD MBA, Healthcare IT Subject Matter Expert Having scanned the ONC and CMS Final Rules, two things pop out right away in regard to requirements for provider notifications, interoperability and Direct Secure Messaging for clinical data. The first is that ONC decided NOT to remove the “secure messaging” criterion from its…

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Reduce Risk & Fiduciary Exposure using Electronic Data Exchange

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The WHO reports patient harm as the 14th leading global disease burden, with 42.7 million adverse events occurring during hospitalizations. A 2018 scientific study revealed a 100% error rate in incoming Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) data, which is alarming. Are these errors critical, like missing life-threatening allergy data, or minor, such as empty fields…

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Who is the Healthcare Services Platform Consortium?

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In 2013, Intermountain Healthcare, Louisiana State University, and the Veterans Administration founded the Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) to refocus the development of healthcare applications. Since HSPC launched, more than 270 contributors have joined their cause. These include leading healthcare and government organizations, healthcare technology vendors and a venture-led group of investors supporting HSPC-centric portfolio…

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