Global Integration Blog

Why IT Personnel are Crucial for Your Integrated Hospital Solution

Posted by Colin Richardson

04-Sep-2014 13:12:00

Connectivity is important in a hospital setting, both the interaction of patients to nurses and doctors and vice versa; a centralized communication system implemented within the hospital for all employees and staff.

This is called an integrated helath IT solution. The program has been developed to merge all necessary information, patient records, documents, medical reports and other data within a hospital setting, so that relevant data can be easily accessed. 

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Topics: Healthcare Software

The Truth about Integrating Health Services within Your Hospital

Posted by Colin Richardson

28-Aug-2014 13:06:00

Collaboration - a word that means to connect, to work with or to integrate. Integrating is another way of incorporating different methods into one service allowing for a more collaborative approach to reach a goal. In any established company within the business sector, services that are integrated into one system are achieving greater benefits and improving possibilities.

Enhancing the capabilities of medical establishments by applying proven collaboration and integrations methods
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Topics: Healthcare Software

An Easy Way to Improve Your Patient’s Experience

Posted by Colin Richardson

14-Aug-2014 12:56:00

The power of computers can be overwhelming at times. If you don’t have a good understanding of what they’re all about, you can become very confused. But some people are adept at speaking this language and have a greater level of skill in manipulating a computer’s capabilities. Computer programs are made to lessen the difficulty of work related activities. However, over the years, technology has developed more and more sophisticated applications.


Integration services provide solutions to business - hospitals, banks, medical centres, and other organizations, by integrating their computer software systems with the help of specialized software tools.

These services work especially well for businesses that want to merge smoothly and effortlessly, like hospitals and financial institutions. 

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Topics: Healthcare Software

How to Improve Patient Care Using Systems Integration

Posted by Colin Richardson

14-Aug-2014 12:39:00

The demand for a more centralised approach to medical services is increasing. In recent studies, it’s been revealed that medical institutions like hospitals, clinics and aged care centres are incorporating digital solutions to improve the delivery of health care services.


To keep up with today’s technological advancement, hospitals have their own IT managers with a team to ensure that computers are working and “talking to each other” to serve their patients better.

Systems integration is gettingmultiple computer software systems to work together. Different departments,

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Topics: Healthcare Software

What You Should Know About Data Integration for Hospitals

Posted by Colin Richardson

07-Aug-2014 12:13:00

The medical field is flooded with important client information. This information is used by doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, and government agencies that have an interest in the client’s total health care to ensure that proper care is delivered.


Because electronic health records and information exchanges make patient information accessible, those in the healthcare business are looking for ways to integrate and manage this data.

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Topics: Healthcare Software

InterSystems Ensemble, Connected Health Care and HL7

Posted by INTERSYSTEMS EXPERT

07-Jul-2011 23:05:00

InterSystems Ensemble

- demonstrating connected health care solutions and HL7 interface capabilities.

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Topics: InterSystems Ensemble, Interface Engine, Healthcare Software, InterSystems

Why We Use InterSystems Ensemble

Posted by INTERSYSTEMS EXPERT

07-Jul-2011 23:04:00

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Topics: InterSystems Ensemble, Interface Engine, Healthcare Software, InterSystems

IBM under fire for QLD Health bungle

Posted by GI_admin

12-Mar-2011 13:56:00

Government could seek damages for payroll implementation.

As reported by ITNews on June 30, 2010

The Queensland Government has issued IBM with a Show Cause Notice following a damning audit of its recent payroll system implementation.
The court order requires IBM to justify the continuation of its role as the prime contractor of Queensland Health's SAP HR payroll system implementation.
Queensland Health also has reserved its legal right to withhold final payment of $3.3 million and seek damages for the project, which has been blamed for more than 35,000 payroll anomalies.
"We have sought Crown Law advice in relation to options for terminating the payroll contract with IBM and it's only fair that we seek to reserve our legal rights," Premier Anna Bligh said in a statement yesterday.
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Topics: Government waste, Healthcare Software

Patients put at risk by software

Posted by GI_admin

12-Mar-2011 13:55:00

As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, March 7, 2011

THE computer system that runs emergency departments in NSW hospitals is compromising patients' care, according to the first systematic review of the troubled project that found it was crippled by design flaws.

The FirstNet system allows treatment details and test results to be assigned inadvertently to the wrong patient, according to the review. It is based on a technical study of the software and interviews with directors of seven Sydney emergency departments.

The system is so compromised it should be scrapped, a specialist doctors' group said yesterday.

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Topics: Government waste, Healthcare Software

Health department accused of censorship

Posted by GI_admin

12-Mar-2011 13:54:00

As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, November 28, 2009

THE University of Sydney removed from its website an extremely critical essay about a new multimillion-dollar emergency department IT system after pressure from the NSW Health Department. .

Doctors, nurses and administrators at four area health services heavily criticised the system - which tracks patients - as posing an ''unacceptably high risk'' to patient safety because it was so slow, cumbersome and inefficient.

Some hospitals have boycotted Cerner FirstNet and reverted to paper to record clinical notes because it is too difficult and too time-consuming to retrieve critical patient information from the system, the essay said.

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Topics: Government waste, Healthcare Software

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