Data Integration for the Future of Healthcare
The healthcare industry faces complex challenges related to the integration, processing, and storage of data, both within enterprises and across multi-enterprise data ecosystems. Because of the sensitive nature of patient information, protecting data privacy and security is a critical issue, and failing to do so leaves companies open to expensive HIPAA violations and other major risks. Also, the quality and accuracy of health data must be held to the highest standards, because inaccurate or incomplete information can lead to billing errors, lost revenue, and, worse: delayed or incorrect diagnoses and treatments.
Making the integration of this data even more challenging is the fact that it’s often stored in different systems and formats, creating additional obstacles when it comes to sharing and coordinating the data among providers and organizations. Companies are increasingly investing in standards-based technologies such as HL7 and FHIR to improve data sharing and integration because traditional data integration methods simply don’t address these issues.
Other innovations are also playing a larger role in healthcare data integration. Cloud computing gives organizations the ability to store and process large amounts of data securely and cost-effectively, while AI and machine learning can empower companies to analyze huge amounts of healthcare data, identifying patterns and gaining insights impossible to achieve with traditional methods.
Processing healthcare data using traditional methods creates other burdens as well. Such methods require the efforts of IT data integration experts not only for extensive coding and mapping, but also for dealing with data integration challenges, including accessing data from back-end systems, understanding complex errors, and applying business rules to fix those issues. This not only ties up a company’s IT resources and forces business teams to delay their work, it also leaves customers waiting for their data to be integrated – and waiting on the value they’ve been promised.
Instead, imagine a self-service solution that provides seamless IT integration and connectivity while speeding the process by as much as 80 percent – and freeing IT experts to work on priority projects by putting the data integration process in the hands of business teams.
That’s what Adeptia offers.