Business agility in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Top challenges
IBM systems, software and services facilitate transformation to a smarter healthcare and life sciences by enabling ecosystem enterprises to:
- Improve operational effectiveness and reduce cost.
- Achieve higher quality and improved outcomes for greater value.
- Deliver connected and personalized care.
Where we can help
IBM is a stable and global single source of systems, software and services to enable healthcare and life sciences ecosystem connectivity, collaboration, process optimization and information analytics for business performance transformation and cost-effective management of the clinical, heuristic, administrative, research and teaching (CHART) processes. WebSphere solutions can support these critical business performance transformation initiatives:
- Investments in connectivity, process automation and decision management to facilitate:
- patient-centered collaborative care,
- distributed / outsourced operations,
- accountable care organizations (ACOs),
- meaningful use (MU) and comparative effectiveness research (CER). - Business process management (BPM), service oriented architecture (SOA), connectivity and integration, and dynamic application infrastructure optimize time to value (TTV) and return on investment (ROI) to implement:
- accreditation and legislative/regulatory compliance,
- business-IT alignment, governance and risk management,
- end-to-end administrative and clinical process automation,
- clinical decision support at the point of care.
WebSphere-based solutions run on virtually every proprietary and open source platform to provide scalability, high availability, connectivity to legacy systems and applications, and designed-in interoperability -– the “strength of the stack”.
Focus on Sunshine Act Compliance
Physician Payments Sunshine Act Compliance
Record and report promotional / aggregate spend information with near-term ROI
Featured product: WebSphere Message Broker Connectivity Pack for Healthcare
IBM WebSphere Message Broker Connectivity Pack for Healthcare V7.0 delivers support for clinical application integration and operational management for healthcare environments.
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