We are excited to share the news that MD Tech Review recently recognized Zen as one of the Top Healthcare Interoperability Solution Providers. Zen’s President and Co-Founder, Marilee Benson sat down with MD Tech Review to discuss how Zen simplifies interoperability for our clients.   

“We are still using standards from a decade ago that have to coexist with new standards like FHIR. Individual healthcare organizations can’t keep up with the rapid pace of change,” says Marilee Benson, the President of Zen Healthcare IT. 

As a result of this growing complexity, the ‘DIY approach’—to take an integration tool and drop it on a server and start building interfaces—of the past, isn’t effective or scalable. Doing so provides no opportunity to leverage expertise and experience. Each healthcare organization is trying to create their own solutions to solve the same problems. And regardless of where these tools reside—cloud or on-premise— interoperability solutions must be optimized for performance and security to support the unique needs of healthcare data exchange in today’s environment.

Being entirely dedicated to healthcare data interoperability, Zen has accumulated many use cases over the years that steer the company toward helping healthcare organizations address their interoperability challenges. “We call it the ‘Zen Hive Mind’, as our company was built to ensure that each member of our technical team is able to contribute their unique expertise across all client integration projects,” adds Marilee. By providing a fully managed, secured and optimized Infrastructure that was built from the ground up to support high volume and complex healthcare messaging requirements, Zen eliminates the clients’ interoperability complexity and burden through each of its Gemini™ Integration Platform; Stargate™ IHE Gateway, and Gravity™ FHIR Clinical Data Repository.

Further, Zen provides interoperability tools (software, transformers, and libraries) that are needed to both minimize the time to implement and eliminate the time needed to manage a robust data exchange environment. 

We are thrilled to be considered one of the top interoperability solution providers, but we know our work is just getting started. 

If you are looking to make your current integrations more resilient and efficient, or looking to build a new integration from scratch, give us a call and speak with one of our interoperability specialists. You will be glad you did.