Infrastructure integration solutions for healthcare providers
With a typical hospital running dozens of disconnected systems, health organizations have a critical need to link a wide range of applications running on different platforms. To complicate this matter, healthcare organizations must also find ways to connect their systems with the automated claims processing systems of the insurance industry to maintain compliance with U.S. HIPAA guidelines.
Microsoft and its partners can help organization solve these tough problems through Microsoft Collaborative Health. The initiative gives healthcare organizations:
| • | An easier way to manage integration. |
| • | More cost-effective methods to communicate information back and forth. |
| • | Faster methods of developing and implementing new interfaces between systems. |
Microsoft Collaborative Health also offers organizations a rapid, cost-effective way to take advantage of HL7 standard. Used in more than 95 percent of U.S. hospitals, HL7 is the global standard for electronic messaging in healthcare. Microsoft is an active supporter of HL7 standards and is a member of the HL7 organization, and participates in a number of forums, including the annual HL7 interoperability demonstration at the Health Information Management Systems Society conference (HIMSS).
Microsoft technologies enable healthcare providers to access HL7 messages quickly and efficiently, and they provide a powerful means for reducing complexity and integrating disparate healthcare systems.
Solution accelerators that aid in infrastructure integration
Scripps Health achieves significant efficiency gains
The ability to link various systems using Microsoft technologies has enabled Scripps Health, a large Southern California-based healthcare system with 10 hospitals, to achieve significant efficiency gains. Scripps also expects to increase overall messaging efficiency by 25 percent once the system is rolled out across the entire organization.
