Today’s economic conditions, combined with new reimbursement rules, are resulting in unprecedented financial challenges. Healthcare organizations now face tightened access to capital, higher interest rates, increased charity care and bad debt expenses, reduced admissions and fewer scheduled elective procedures, and negative returns on investments.

Healthcare enterprises must adapt to survive, focusing on efficiencies and high performance. Critical to meeting this challenge is the ability to do more with their existing assets, leveraging the amazing amounts of data that they already own and facilitating collaboration across multiple groups and care boundaries. Healthcare organizations need the ability to:

Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) allows employees at the point of impact to answer questions themselves, empowering the person who is most adept at making a decision or understanding how a process works with real-time access to all relevant enterprise information. Amalga UIS offers healthcare organizations a potential alternative to ripping and replacing legacy systems by liberating data from its transactional systems, allowing organizations to leverage their existing data assets while reducing demand on IT departments.