Posted on Behalf of Marianne Soucy, Manager, Client Education Services One of the worst support calls I have taken in my IT career was for a client that had a new employee accidentally delete an entire drive of a virtualized SQL server. Should he have had access to do so? Of course not, but [...]
Posted on behalf of Tori Buck, Director of Product Management There are a number of possible arguments for the value of an integration engine in your healthcare environment. Some of those that I come across regularly are: The return on investment (ROI) available by being able to reproduce data feeds to other downstream disparate systems [...]
Hospitals and eligible healthcare providers have been focused on achieving Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record (EHR) system standards set by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) since 2012 now. With Meaningful Use Stage 3, the last of three stages, due to [...]
Burton Hospitals Partners with Summit Healthcare to Streamline Integration During HCIS Migration Summit Healthcare Assists with Burton Hospitals MEDITECH Migration and Ongoing Interface Support Braintree, Mass., – Summit Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare system integration and automation technologies, recently highlighted their expanded partnership with Burton Hospitals to provide support throughout, and following, the migration [...]
Posted on behalf of Scott Anderson, Quality Assurance Manager Admit it. We’d all like to think we are the James Bond of strong passwords. In reality, the majority of us are the “James Bombs” of passwords. And not in a good way. The family pet’s name. Add a number and special character slapped on [...]
Posted on behalf of Katie Jankowski, Software Engineer I’m sure we’ve all heard Benjamin Franklin’s quote, “Time is Money”, but have you ever really thought of what that means? In today’s healthcare industry, time is of the essence. Notifications are a hot topic within EHR systems and healthcare software, especially as it relates to [...]
Posted on behalf of Kendra Nalbandian, Regional Sales Manager The use of a fax machine in the healthcare market goes back a number of years and has been relied on heavily as a means to communicate by physicians. Physicians have utilized the fax machine to communicate with patients, pharmacists, colleagues and a number of [...]
Posted on behalf of Ben Tessier, Technical Support Analyst/Education Specialist In our support experience here at Summit, we are often queried on how to make things happen via keyboard. Best practice with script automation is to avoid mouse-clicks and utilize the keyboard whenever possible. By using this approach, you avoid issues with screen resolution [...]
Six Leading Healthcare Organizations Select New Summit Exchange Platform to Enhance Care Delivery Braintree, Mass., February 7, 2017 (HIMSS Booth #3979) — Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare integration and automation, today announced that it has released the latest version of its integration platform, Summit Exchange 1.2. Summit Exchange builds upon Summit Healthcare's proven [...]
Posted on behalf of Alex Casey, Marketing Manager Ransomware is becoming an increasing concern among many healthcare providers. Cyber criminals have been able to encrypt files resulting in infecting PCs and restricting access to both files and PC access. In recent news, these criminals have also gained the ability to establish connections throughout hospital networks [...]