Addressing Industry Challenges: Data Aggregation |
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 Amalga will let us pull together data in new ways — giving us transparency and streamlining key processes. Using Amalga, our physicians will spend less time tracking down information and more time making smart decisions and caring for patients.  - Mark Van Kooy, M.D., Medical Director of Informatics, Virtua Health
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| The Challenge |
The information needs of medicine and healthcare are fundamentally different than those of other industries for a number of reasons. Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) is designed to address the information management requirements of healthcare, a complex environment where relationships between data elements are frequently unknown.
Healthcare’s unique data challenges include:
| The volume and nature of health data Current transaction systems were not built for data use and re-use An abundance of disconnected point solutions Ineffective data warehouse tools to meet health data needs
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| The Need | Healthcare organizations require the ability to: | Achieve data liquidity. Health organizations should be able to easily access and explore their existing data to improve efficiency, decision making, quality, and value; analyze their operations holistically; and focus on continuous improvement. Connect and share data securely within and between health organizations. The secure electronic access to a lifetime of treatments, prescriptions, and tests will allow individuals and providers to make better medical decisions, reduce wasteful spending, and increase quality.
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| The Solution |
Amalga UIS is built for change, reducing the complexity, effort, and resources required to deliver an agile enterprisewide data platform that allows use and re-use of healthcare data, leveraging and extending the value of existing technology solutions.
Amalga UIS addresses today’s unique data challenges by:
| Creating a single point for unified access to the wealth of information present in healthcare organizations. Allowing organizations to capture all data—structured and unstructured. Using standards when they are available, but not being limited by them. Helping optimize the impact of existing systems by allowing more flexible use of the data captured in those systems. Empowering end users to manage their own information needs, which frees the IT team from acting as ad-hoc report generators. Enabling the ability to create solutions for complex financial, operational, and clinical problems more easily and cost effectively.
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|  | | | | | Microsoft, October 15, 2009Online H1N1 Response Center helps users quickly assess their symptoms so they can decide whether to get medical attention or recover at home. Microsoft, October 14, 2009Caritas Christi Health Care partners with Microsoft to connect physicians and patients. Seattle Times, October 5, 2009Microsoft’s solution to bring healthcare into the digital era. New York Times, July 13, 2009Electronic Health Records: A Texas Model Microsoft, April 6, 2009Microsoft Introduces Next-Generation Amalga Unified Intelligence System New York Times, April 5, 2009A hospital is offering digital records cnet News, April 5, 2009N.Y. hospital taps Microsoft to digitize records PC World, April 5, 2009Microsoft Updates E-health Data-aggregation Software Microsoft, April 3, 2009Microsoft showcases new health solutions to enhance patient experience and improve operations at HiMSS09 Microsoft, March 17, 2009Virtua Health selects Microsoft Amalga to help improve patient care February 20, 2009Peter Neupert on Fox Business News speaks about how the stimulus package will impact the industry February 19, 2009Emergency room doctors share data at the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange February 10, 2009Hospitals seek ways to pull their data together January 2009El Camino looks to Amalga UIS to provide a better view of patient care January 17, 2009Some CIOs are focusing on smart spending during the recession to prepare for recovery
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