IBM Health Integration Framework

Accelerating solutions for smarter healthcare

Smarter business transformation

The IBM Health Integration Framework is a software platform based on industry standards. It supports IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions and applications for providers, health plans and life sciences organizations. These solutions leverage common products and healthcare and life sciences extensions, so you can add capabilities and functionality within or across departments – one project at a time.

The framework supports a practical, progressive and flexible approach to business transformation:

Over time, project by project, you can move to a simplified, agile, more strategic technology infrastructure to support the changing needs of your business operations.
With each project, you can realize a return on investment over a shorter payback perod.

IBM Health Integration Framework benefits

The IBM Health Integration Framework (HIF) is an industry specific software platform that extends IBM's leadership in healthcare with proven business solutions based on real customer implementations that solve key business problems. Providers, health plans and insurers, and life sciences organizations can deliver greater value and drive success with patient-centered business solutions built on HIF that provide:

Speed. Incorporate proven software foundation, healthcare industry-specific extensions, pre-built solution accelerators and implementation patterns for faster deployment at lower cost.
Flexibility. Develop a roadmap to build capabilities on your existing investment one project at a time.
Choice. Leverage an ecosystem of industry ISVs and IBM solutions built on industry standards and integrated into the framework.
Interoperability. Facilitate the integration, exchange and sharing of information from multiple applications and systems—among providers, health plans and other stakeholders—to advance the effective delivery of healthcare.