Practice tip of the week: Creating a digital front door

With all the useful information available on Physicians Practice, it is easy to become overwhelmed.

With this in mind, the tip of the week is a chance to reflect on some of the wisdom found all across the site. In this March 2024 story on creating a digital front door for your practice, John Squeo advises:

3. Health care standards are stringent: IT solutions and services providers also must comply with a litany of demanding standards, from well-known requirements like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, to requirements like those stipulating that application programming interfaces must meet interoperability standards like HL7 and FHIR. Beyond the digital front door, things only get more complex with requirements that govern every piece of integrated software and hardware, from infusion pumps to patient monitoring systems. The complexities involved present most technology companies with far too much to learn.

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