The biggest challenge experienced by healthcare organizations is the integration of data from complex and diverse systems. This leads to loss of patient data, mishmash of information and majority time of there is no dependable central repository to store the data or from where reliable information can be retrieved. As a result, organizations end up losing tons of money and customers.
Oracle’s Healthcare Transaction Base 6.1 has come as a blessing to cover that base. Using this solution’s multiple-use data repository, the organizations can not only make their administrative, clinical and financial data easy to understand; but can also help reduce costs and improve patient care.
It enables the integration and operation of different healthcare application. It also ensures that correct data is available at the central depository and that the data is not lost. Having a single source of data can be helpful in making effective decision which can be critical for the survival of a healthcare organization.
It enables the creation of a complete, centralized, and normalized data source from which data can be viewed via a portal or other healthcare applications. It can also help develop data entry applications.
Besides improving customer relationship and management, it can help the organizations cut cost. Additional benefits are as listed below:
• Availability of reliable data due to interoperability of the diverse applications across the organization
• Availability of improved data quality which can be used multiple times
• It supports IHE XDS.b web services because of which customers comply with IHE architecture do not have to create custom web services. This greatly reduces the total cost of ownership.
• As a part of its design principles, it is engineered with healthcare-specific regulations
• It supports current guidelines for data exchange and interoperability. This help create the foundation platform to support quality reporting
“The ability to aggregate patient information into a comprehensive data repository, and access that information in near real time to improve decision making, is a critical differentiator for healthcare organizations,” said Neil de Crescenzo, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base helps organizations address their interoperability challenges head on and is designed to help reduce costs, improve time to market and enhance operational efficiency.”