Sybase Solutions for Healthcare Adapting to an Evolving Business and Regulatory Environment OVERVIEW
Sybase Solutions for Healthcare Adapting to an Evolving Business and Regulatory Environment Rising medical costs, industry consolidation, changes in the social culture, and government legislation are driving the need for a change in traditional healthcare business strategies. To compete successfully, payers, providers, and others must improve overall efficiency, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction all of which require organizations to automate and streamline their business processes. E-business makes that possible, and companies migrating their business processes to a comprehensive e-business model are redefining the delivery, administration, and management of healthcare. Unique Challenges for Healthcare Organizations To conduct e-business, comply with government regulations such as HIPAA, and collaborate effectively with other members of the healthcare value chain, organizations must integrate their IT systems. They must support industry standards for information exchange and expose the existing functionality in their systems so they can be linked to systems in other organizations. In addition, many have signed service level agreements (SLAs) with partners or patients and must ensure they can efficiently deliver the services promised. Healthcare industry members can make this possible by integrating enterprise applications and accelerating business-to-business integration for both healthcare and non-healthcare applications. In addition, their business process integration must take into account the privacy, transaction processing, and data security requirements of legal standards. Adopting a Flexible, Open Environment As government regulations and market conditions continue to evolve, the providers and payers best able to adapt will be those with a flexible, open IT environment. Key business-level objectives for healthcare organizations include: Improve profitability. Requires process improvement, reducing cost of materials and procurement, and reducing cost of services. Enhance competitive agility. Involves adapting to new requirements, channels, and geographies; implementing innovative business models; and deploying new services to respond quickly to a changing competitive landscape. Secure patient and partner loyalty. Results from an ongoing effort to become easier to do business with, promoting collaborative processes, and deploying externally-facing applications. For more information, visit www.sybase.com/healthcare
Streamlining Processes, Enhancing Collaboration, and Complying with Regulations Sybase technologies address current healthcare business issues, from enabling real-time eligibility verification at Admission, through giving clinicians and physicians secure access to patients clinical information via the Web, to comply with HIPAA regulations on claims transactions, privacy, and security. Deploying Sybase solutions makes it possible for healthcare organizations to improve collaboration with industry partners, streamline business processes, and reduce costs to the organization. In addition, by delivering enhancements such as improved decision support for medical personnel via systems integration, Sybase solutions can also help improve the quality of care and increase customer satisfaction with providers and payers. Helping Providers Operate More Efficiently Healthcare providers need to focus on improving business processes such as institutional reporting, financial systems, and asset management, while maintaining and improving clinical systems for better patient care. They must also integrate and optimize current healthcare systems and support HIPAA Claims Transactions. The Sybase solution addresses those issues by: Supporting various messaging formats (HL7, X12, etc). Providing the infrastructure to filter and deliver messages to any number of destination systems. Providing advanced functions such as combining data from multiple sources to respond to a single request. Providing an out-of-the-box transaction validation and transformation solution. Facilitating Industry Collaboration for Payers Payers need to focus on health value chain collaboration while continuing to improve their internal business processes. They are typically confronted with scenarios that may include complex environments that incorporate multiple adjudication systems and/or multiple platforms. As transaction volumes increase due to new trading partners and added transactions, payers need to monitor message movement. The Sybase solution addresses those issues by: Enabling the dynamic, intelligent routing of messages to multiple, disparate systems. Facilitating the acceptance, validation, and delivery of compliant transactions. Monitoring and measuring message movement throughout an extended business process, thereby ensuring transactions don t fall through the cracks. Sybase Healthcare Solutions for Payers and Providers Business Activity Monitoring + Healthcare Appllications Web Trading Partner Systems HIPAA Compliance Checking Message Routing Packaged Appllications E-Mail Legacy Mainframe Information Portals Wireless Documents + Clinical Gateways Message Translation HIPAA Repository Custom Enrollment Physician Access Business Process Management Claims Adjudication
Sybase Solutions for the Healthcare Industry Sybase offers a comprehensive portfolio of healthcare solutions that enable organizations to optimize processes, collaborate more effectively, comply with government regulations, and compete more successfully. HIPAA Transactions The Sybase HIPAA Transactions solution helps organizations meet the compliance challenge by enabling them to map, validate, integrate, and provide a data repository for X12 transactions. The solution simplifies the task of producing compliance maps, which are essential for all organizations directly sending and/ or receiving HIPAA X12 transactions. Healthcare Process Optimization This solution comprises a comprehensive set of integration and business process improvement technologies to support the specific needs of healthcare. Based on the Business Process Integrator (BPI) Suite for Healthcare, the solution provides a complete framework to quickly integrate providers, employers, and payers. Its integration capabilities eliminate the need to duplicate internal systems for partner and customer access. By providing the foundation to decrease human interaction, Sybase business process integration enables automated business processes. HIPAA Repository By leveraging Sybase s proven technology, HIPAA Repository allows healthcare organizations to quickly implement a compliance-enabling solution faster than if they built the solution in-house. The result is increased efficiency for the organization and its transaction processing capabilities. And because of HIPAA Repository s open architecture, it connects to all HIPAA technology available from Sybase as well as many other HIPAA solutions. HIPAA Repository can be deployed on any relational database a key differentiator, as many healthcare organizations want to deploy on the mainframe in conjunction with their existing adjudication system. Fraud Detection The first step in identifying fraudulent claims and preventing significant losses requires the ability to quickly and efficiently flag and examine suspicious activities, as well as the ability to view such patient and provider report data as frequency of expenditures, average payments over time, average costs per transaction by vendor and cost center, and average hourly cost for services. The Sybase Fraud Detection solution enables organizations to take that step and successfully detect and analyze patterns of healthcare fraud in large corporate data warehouses. HIPAA Privacy Compliance Sybase offers a ready-to-deploy, secure, and scalable HIPAA Privacy Compliance solution that provides a simple architecture for HIPAA compliance, reduces compliance costs by centralizing policy enforcement, and provides an open and scalable framework for future growth. It enables organizations to enforce compliance rules from a centralized system, and to create an electronic audit history for accounting for disclosures as well as PHI access and amendments. It also enables a secure communications channel for employee, patient, and partner access, and provides detailed tracking of patient record amendments to resolve disputes.
Integrating Systems to Enhance Information Access As the following examples illustrate, Sybase solutions for healthcare deliver dramatic, measurable results for organizations, making it possible for them to operate more efficiently, collaborate more effectively with partners, deliver better quality care to patients, and improve their bottom line. Health Consortium: The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati Replace the existing EDI portion of a supply chain without interrupting an ordering system buying more than a million medical line items a year. Deploy a secure, flexible EDI architecture using a Sybase solution as the foundation. Health Alliance avoided an estimated $570,000 of penalties due to non-edi compliance. Health Insurance Company: HealthNow Become HIPAA compliant, and process real-time transactions and specific document formats as a member of a health consortium. Deploy a Sybase solution that includes a real-time system supporting multiple maps translating thousands of documents a day. HealthNow is HIPAA compliant and its call center load is dropping as the automated solution sees increasing customer traffic. Regional Healthcare Provider: St. Luke s Hospital, Missouri Provide a single point of access to all clinical information, and place this information in caregivers hands when and where they need it. Deploy a scalable Sybase database server and integration engine for transaction-intensive applications. Users access data via a browser and Web server over the local intranet. Key applications are integrated into a single database for online viewing, leading to improved patient care. Drug Development Services Company: Covance Create a strategic business information architecture for Covance Clinical Development worldwide. Deploy a Sybase portal solution as the foundation for an integrated application platform to consolidate information from all data sources into a single point of reference. Easy and secure access to critical clinical trial data and trial management information no matter what the source for clinical research project teams worldwide.
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