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What does it mean to get Synaptic?

1) Thrive in the healthcare ecosystem, the distributed network of disparate healthcare information technology (HCIT) systems by enabling healthcare information exchange (HIE).  Get truly interoperable.

2) Offer solutions to HIE problems that are: a) scalable: reconsider what tools you are using to get interoperable.  Open up to the larger developer community so that they have reasons to consume your applications, namely that they can improve them for uses you can’t imagine, b) replicable: when one solution provider or institution enables data exchange from A to B, we know that there are 500 other end-users that need to do practically the same thing.  How do we leverage this work over and over again, even provide a distribution channel for it?  c) "mash-able
" or "mash-up-able" - what’s the word there?  You get the idea – able to be combined with other services.  d) Game-changers: solutions that commoditize connectivity and data exchange in favor of value-added information exchange services like governance, straight-through processing rates, and reporting/analytics.  e) transparent: by this we mean that applications, services, apps, widgets etc are not just “interoperable” because some company or certification body says so.  They are interoperable because they are open to improvement, data exchange, etc. – one way or another, consumers, developers, etc. can see how many services, APIs, etc. that one solution has that make it synaptic.

Synapses are sparks between two connection points – data, information, ideas, memories, creativity, etc.  The more connection points using a similar service, the higher the need for scalability.  The more open and transparent the service, the more likely other developers can map to it, consume data from it, etc – or, the more likely it is to be “mashed up” into other services.

For HCIT and HIE vendors – or HCIT vendors in need of more HIE – these are the specific things SynapticHealth can help you answer:

Where is your API, adapter, information service, etc.?: This is really a two-part question and answer.

First, the assumes that you can show the world how you publish and or consume data.  Most applications cannot do this reasonably well.  SynapticHealth can clear a path for you through the usual healthcare systems integration applications towards updated, scalable, interoperability solutions.  Who knows – it might go well beyond your ability to live in the distributed network of disparate systems that is healthcare – it may transform your outlook on your entire application suite – not just your HIE capabilities.

Secondly, once you have a strategy for publishing and consuming data – getting interoperable – or Synaptic – how do you tell the world about it and distribute these information services.  The SynapticHealth Information Services Exchange, of course.  You need a store in our mall.  Shoppers for your information services need to know where to go to find these information services.  More important, in a “many-to-many” environment of stores in the mall – the Information Services Exchange – developers can improve upon your developers’ work.  Contact us for more clarification on this.

Is Your App Synaptic?  Does your healthcare solution thrive in the healthcare/HCIT/HIE ecosystem?  SynapticHealth can chart a course to more evolved HIE as well as improving your entire application suite.

Get Synaptic.