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Health care organizations are complex business entities with many distinct, but connected parts. For a hospital, these departments can include admission, labs, nursing stations, physicians, and billing. All of these departments generate and consume data. The data can include information about patients, billing, procedures, and medications. Often, organizations need this data across many of their departments. A common challenge for the health care organization is how to deal effectively with the exchange of data between departments.
We at Art2link take advantage of Microsoft's BizTalk Accelerator for HL7 (BTAHL7) to provide health care providers with solutions for their application integration and business-process automation needs.
Even if the processes of separate parts of a health care organization are not inherently compatible, we can integrate them. We can tie them together with technology that transforms a system characterized by point-to-point connections to one based on a hub-and-spoke arrangement. BTAHL7 achieves this integration by connecting to each separate department or entity, and providing the mechanisms that bind the processes together, resolving their differences. It also automates data exchange, so that business processes can run with a minimum of human intervention.
Integrated IT systems and standardized data exchange have provided the foundation for more efficient health care processes. A truly effective IT solution for health care systems is one that focuses on the issues in that industry, and provides functionality, features, and tools that address the needs of health care organizations. BTAHL7 provides that solution. We install BTAHL7 on top of BizTalk Server 2006 R2. BTAHL7 works with the schemas created and maintained by the HL7 organization. In addition, it provides features and tools specifically designed for health care applications. BTAHL7 enables batching, acknowledgments, data validation, auditing, and logging required by health care organizations. |
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