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Interoperability in the Healthcare Sector

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Interoperability in healthcare - why it is essential

Interoperability is the key success factor for sustainable healthcare. Organizational, procedural, semantic and technical interoperability of service providers is essential in order to be able to offer innovative an successful services in the long term.

Economic pressure as well as increasing and changing regulatory requirements are putting a strain on healthcare facilities. Planned or existing collaborations between service providers and changes in processes and service ranges require organizational adjustments. Interoperable organizations can react flexibly and quickly to changing challenges by dynamically adapting applications, processes and information management to new frame conditions

UNITY supports you in enhancing the potentials of interoperability – with a strategic approach, technical expertise, great experience and a deep understanding of the industry.

Healthcare facilities are facing similar challenges:

there is no clear interoperability strategy
existing interoperability solutions are not being used optimally
a new interoperability solution is to be designed and implemented
there is a lack of know-how and/or capacity in the area of information and enterprise architecture management
at the same time, regulatory requirements are increasing
economic pressure is growing

Our approach for developing you interoperable organization stars with you individual requirements. In doing so, we especially address two starting points:

strategic design of you interoperable organization including a new interoperability solution for your facilities
maximizing the benefits of an existing interoperability solution to develope you interoperable organization

Our goals – your advantages

Prepare your healthcare facility for the digital future – with a customized solution for your challenges!

Patient care across sectors

Seamless transfer and receipt of information and date as well as a complete overview of patients enables well-founded clinical decisions and increases the quality of treatments

Efficiency and cost reduction

Costs can be reduced and processes optimized through the strategic implementation of regulatory requirements as well as through the creation of prospective, interoperable organizational structures

Future-proof information system architectures

Scalable and secure solutions that offer maximum flexibility for future requirements

UNITY`s process model

Our consulting services for interoperability in the healthcare sector

Strategic design of new interoperability solutions for your facilities

You challenges/questions:

Scarce resources and lack of know-how on the topic of interoperability
Complex regulatory challenges for information management due to the Hospital Care Improvement Act (KHVVG) and ISiK
No clear strategic and tactical goals regarding the interoperable organization

UNITY solution approach:

Development of an individual vision and strategy for interoperability in your facilities
Development of clearly defined goals
Planning the implementation to realize the planned results (short and long term)

Maximizing the benefits of an existing interoperability solution

Your challenges/questions:

Lack of benefits and untapped potential of an existing interoperability solution
Lack of resources to shape the existing solution
No reliable planning of the expansion stages
No comprehensive information management

UNITY solution approach:

Adaptation of the existing interoperability solution to current challenges
Maximizing the benefits of an existing interoperability solution
Orchestration of existing information systems to achieve the set goals regarding the information management

Project storys interoperability in the healthcare sector

Intersectoral networking

Pioneering work to overcome digital fragmentation in the healthcare sector

The digital health platform OWL connects hospitals, doctors and other stakeholders in
Ostwestfalen-Lippe for a secure, digital exchange of health data. With over 6.5 million euros in
funding and own resources, central use cases such as doctor's letters, medication plans and
image data have been implemented digitally - for better care, more efficiency and highest data
protection standards.

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Introduction of interoperability platform

Design and procurement of an interoperability platform
Recording the existing and future system landscape
Identification and definition of use cases, including data sources and sinks, data types and integration aspects
Development of a target image and validation of the target design with market participants
Definition of the deployment and operating model
Derivation of requirements, creation of a specification sheet and procurement support for the procurement of the IOP solution
Interoperability platform for nine acute clinics

Development and integration of a central interoperability platform for nine acute clinics
Definition of the Group-wide target image for interoperability
Development of the solution design and definition of framework parameters
Market research and provider selection
Coordination of implementation and supplier management
Gradual introduction of IOP for all BG clinics, including governance