Why Healthcare Today Needs BPM and SOA by Avio
- by JuergenKress
Within
the past couple years, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
has led to significant changes in the healthcare industry. A
highly-complex supply chain between patients, providers, buyers and
insurance companies has led to a lack of overall collaboration when it
comes to processes.
The first open enrollment deadline for
products on the Health Insurance Exchange has passed. So what now? Let’s
take a brief look at how things have changed and what organizations can
do to stay in (and ahead of) the game.
New requirements, new processes Organizations
that have not adapted processes to meet new regulatory requirements
will fall further behind. New regulatory requirements effectively make
some legacy applications obsolete, require batch process to move to
real-time, and more. Business Process Management (BPM) can help
organizations bring data processes in line while helping IT redesign
processes rather than change code or replace existing applications. BPM
fills in application gaps and links critical information systems for a
more visible, efficient and auditable organization.
Social and mobile solutions BPM
technology also facilitates social and mobile solutions that can help
meet new needs. Patients are dependent on a network of doctors,
pharmacists, families and others. Social solutions can connect members
of the patient’s community in ways never seen before - enabling
real-time, relevant communication. Likewise, mobile technology supports
social solutions, and BPM is the most efficient way to make processes
simple and role-based. It unties medical professionals from their
offices by enabling them to access timely information and alerts
anywhere.
Why SOA is also needed Integrating
BPM with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) also plays a critical role
in the development of healthcare solutions that work. SOA can create a
single end-to-end process, integrate applications and move them into a
common workflow. While SOA enables the reutilization of existing IT
infrastructure, BPM supports the process optimization, monitoring and
social aspects. SOA and BPM applications support business analysts as
they model, create and monitor processes - providing real-time insight
and a unified workflow of process activities.
Read “New” Solutions for a New Healthcare Landscape on our blog to learn more.
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