From the Caristix website: "If you've seen our HL7 Survival Guide, you know it’s chockablock full of valuable information for interoperability and HL7 projects. We’re starting a series of brief snippets and actionable tips based on learnings from the Guide.

Use these tips to get your interoperability projects up and running, educate leadership on interoperability, and sell your vision."

This article breaks down best practices in beginning health information integration projects if you are a startup company or small business. Three main areas of integration project development are examined including scoping and designing the interface specification, addressing data flow issues and managing interface volume.

From the ONC website: Interactive course using stories, analogies, and practical examples to highlight new vocabulary, content, transport, and services standards introduced in the Meaningful Use Stage 2. This course also introduces the concept of interoperability building blocks and utilizes stories to show concepts in practice.

The course is approximately 75 minutes in length with flexibility to take the entire course all at once or over a period of time. The four topics within this course are:

• Defining Interoperability
• Interoperability Path to Meaningful Use Stage 2
• Building Blocks of Interoperability
• The Effect of Interoperability on Categories of Care