March 15, 2021
Patient Safety Awareness Week: Annual Reminder to Advance Quality Healthcare Initiatives
With this year’s observance of Patient Safety Awareness Week, those of us in the medical products and healthcare technology industries commend you for your achievements in protecting and improving the wellbeing of patients, and we reaffirm our commitment to help you fulfil a fundamental principle of healthcare delivery – Patient Safety.
March 4, 2021
How IHE HL7 Integration Profiles Take the Drudgery Out of Connecting Medical Devices
by Teresa Soman, John Zaleski and Cathleen Olguin
IHE HL7 Integration Profiles ensure that “transactions” of information between medical devices and downstream hospital systems accurate and efficient. Capsule develops Device Drive Interfaces that enable device vendors to add IHE HL7 Integration Profiles to their technologies.
March 2, 2021
How Rosetta Terminology Mapping Translates to More Efficient Research and Device Integration
by Teresa Soman, John Zaleski and Cathleen Olguin
Capsule helps device manufacturers incorporate Rosetta Terminology Mapping (RTM) into their device integration technologies. RTM offers an industry-recognized method for normalizing clinical data to facilitate communication between devices and systems, improving clinician and researcher workflow efficiency.
February 24, 2021
Top 3 Predictions for the First Virtual IHE Connectathon
by Renaud Capolunghi, Laurent Decool, Glynn Naughton and Teresa Soman
For Capsule, we couldn’t think of a better year to participate in Connectathon. With the entire healthcare industry evolving toward more remote and virtual care, it is an ideal time to see how our solutions and those of our partners perform in these environments.
February 11, 2021
COVID-19 Is Having an Effect on Cybersecurity Efforts
Capsule Technologies Cybersecurity Manager Christophe Doré discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the cybersecurity of healthcare institutions with interviewer Susan Morse, Managing Editor of Healthcare Finance News.
February 3, 2021
Stolen Patient Records a Hot Commodity on the Dark Web
by Paul Nadrag
Cyberattacks against healthcare providers have accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. A medical record is a treasure trove of data that can be used for a variety of illegal activities, harming both the patient and the institution. Repercussions might persist for years.