According to this Healthcare Finance News article, about $280 million in hospital readmissions penalties will be paid by 2,213 hospitals this year.  This is a result of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  It’s also a killer use case for data integration. “The key to effective [...]

I work in the healthcare vertical quite a bit these days.  What I see has really opened my eyes to the need for a sound data integration strategy and a good base of data integration technology.  In many cases the amount of information in silos is not only undesirable from the standpoint of healthcare providers, [...]

Even with the rapid evolution of today’s data integration tools, there is still plenty of room for skilled consultants to create powerful and innovative solutions to address specific industry requirements. A case in point is Astadia’s growing portfolio of industry-specific, vertical market data integration solutions built on the Pervasive DataCloud on-demand integration platform. Astadia is [...]

Healthcare and healthcare information technology (HIT) continue to be a data integration challenge for payers, providers, and consumers of healthcare services. This post will explore the role of Pervasive’s Data Integrator software in the solution envisioned by one of the partners presenting at the iNExt, Misys Open Source Solutions (MOSS). However, first we need to [...]

Every year at IntegratioNEXT, Pervasive spotlights a few of our customers and partners whose creative use of our software really breaks new ground.  We give out the InnovatioNEXT Award for Integration Innovation (See last year’s award winners here). Given the sheer number of customers who are doing new and innovative integration projects this year, we have blown up the InnovatioNEXT Awards, creating nine [...]