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Overcome the B2B Integration Challenges in Healthcare Sector with an EDI Integration Tool
by Adeptia Inc Self-Service Data Integration Organizations operating in the healthcare sector have just started to realize the benefits of healthcare data. However, healthcare companies struggle to integrate their data due to lack of interoperability mechanisms. International Data Corporation’s (IDC) 2013 report estimates that healthcare data will reach a whopping 2,314 exabytes by 2020. Therefore, experts believe that healthcare companies will require more than Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Big Data technologies to deal with this data tsunami. The following are some of the major data challenges in healthcare segment.
- Lack of Data Management and Aggregation Controls: Generally IT teams share the responsibility of collecting the data. However, teams which actually need the data are physicians or stakeholders. During the data lifecycle process, a lot of valuable information is lost when the data finally reaches the end user. Therefore, business users should have greater control for collecting the data.
- Substandard Data Interchange methods:. Stringent Data specifications are needed to extract data from physician practice systems and correlating it with hospital data through particular patient populations. Also a mechanism need to specify that how the data is going to be submitted (format, systems, etc.). Healthcare players generally lack these methods of data interchange in their data architecture.
- Compliances: Technology must understand the compliances and laws the data is dealing with. A single violation of a HIPAA data security can side track the entire business from operating. Apart from HIPAA there are several state made laws that need to be adhered while handling the patient information. A layered encryption approach should be available to secure the data during data transport.
To address every single health care issue, the partner enablement approach creates an EDI integration framework to move data between internal and external systems. The result is a 5x faster integration approach that doesn’t require any complex coding.
Components Required to Fix the B2B Integration Issues in the Healthcare Sector
- Master Patient Index: Generates unique ID for every patient which holds his details in multiple source systems.
- Data Transfer Protocols: Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Server Message Block (SMB), etc.
- QA Standards: Cleansing the data for analytics purposes and securely moving it to clinical & business intelligence.
- Workflows: For sending the data from source systems to external systems.
- Layered Approach: A layered approach (data access layer, orchestration layer, and data presentation layer) secures data.
The EDI tool a company refers must pack these components to confront the EDI integration challenges in the Healthcare Sector. These components ensure that the business systems are seamlessly providing quality healthcare services to clients.
Conclusion
Several integration issues severely block data flowing between business systems of the healthcare organisations. Apart from this, a lot of traffic strains the functioning of central IT systems. In such scenarios, an EDI integration tool helps in configuring workflows and smoothening the electronic data interchange. To select a comprehensive tool, organisations must ensure that the tool packs a series of connectors, pre-embedded libraries, templates, etc.
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