CDS Hooks: Embedding Decision Support Directly in the EHR
Clinical Decision Support Hooks, or CDS Hooks, provide a way to embed prompts, messages and links into Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems so that clinicians can make better decisions on the fly. These smart tools are called “hooks” because they allow clinical messages to “hook” directly into an EHR, providing real-time decision support to healthcare professionals while they care for patients.
In this blog post, we’ll explore what CDS Hooks are, who uses them, and what they look like to clinicians. We’ll also provide some real-world examples of how these digital helpers are transforming patient care.
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5 Ways to Let Patients View their Health Records
As more and more physicians enter patient information, notes and test results into electronic health records (EHRs), patients have the potential to receive more coordinated care and easier access to their health information. As a company that develops and integrates health-related applications, we’re always on the lookout for great patient enablement and engagement tools. Here are five systems that health providers can use to let their patients to securely view their health records.
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Top 5 Strategies to Save Development Time (When Building a Health App)
As you probably know, there’s widespread demand for custom apps that can optimize care delivery, facilitate patient engagement and enablement, and effect better health outcomes. However, health applications often have their own unique challenges. This article contains five tips for building health apps more efficiently.
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Top 5 HIPAA-Compliant Application Hosting and Service Providers
If your application stores personal health information (PHI) and is subject to HIPAA regulations, hosting it on a HIPAA-compliant platform is not enough: You also need to comply with a large number of technical and procedural requirements, like handling authentication securely, enforcing secure access, and keeping proper audit logs. These web hosts provide tools and services – on top of their hosting – to make it easier for you to achieve and maintain HIPAA compliance.
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Building a Low-Code Application? When You Might Need Some Help
If you’re like me, you love to try to solve your own problems. You know, fixing that broken railing on your back porch or making a little change to your website’s stylesheet. If you’re talented and a little lucky you can handle the little surprises that inevitably arise when you try to do things on your own. But sometimes you eventually have to raise the white flag and make that dreaded call to the “professionals”.
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Not Sure Whether to Build or Buy Your Software? Consider Low-Code
If you’re trying to decide whether to buy a third-party application or build a custom one that more closely fits your needs, consider a third option: “Configure” it using a low-code application development platform.
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How Rapid are Rapid Application Development Platforms? An Hour-by-hour Comparison
Rapid Application Development (RAD) platforms such as Caspio, OutSystems and Mendix promise to let users rapidly build applications without writing much code, and in a fraction of the time of traditional code-based technologies. But how much time can RAD really save, and where are the cost savings realized?
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Laravel routes in your Javascript files
While I was at Laracon this year, a problem I have been having for a long while was brought up. The problem is simply that I cannot use route names in Javascript (or specifically Vue) files. I would prefer to use route names so that I did not have to make any changes should a […]
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Outsourcing a Large Web Project? 5 Ways to Avoid RFP Pitfalls
If your organization wants to hire an agency for a large web or mobile app development project, don’t rely on an RFP process alone to select your vendor. By their very nature, traditional RFPs are flawed and often lead to failure. Instead, follow these guidelines and you’ll increase the chances that your project will succeed.
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When to Use a Low-code or No-code Application Development Platform
You may have heard of some of the “low-code” or “no-code” application development platforms on the market. These systems enable companies to rapidly develop rich, database-enabled applications without writing much code – or in some cases without any code at all. This may sound too good to be true; after all, software engineering tends to be time-consuming and expensive. What can these platforms do, and what are they truly good for?
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