Executive View
Top Level Objectives
There are many dynamics and issues that create enormous challenges for the healthcare industry:
- Government mandates that affect healthcare reimbursement
- IT complexity - interoperability of best of breed applications and maintenance of complex environments
- Clinical complexity - The industry is moving to Evidence Based Medicine but today healthcare is as much an art as a science
- Fragmentation in the healthcare industry - provider, payor, government (multi-level) and specialties
- Security and regulatory compliance that is difficult to achieve at a reasonable cost
- Demonstration of meaningful use which remains the critical element to enhancement of reimbursement rates
Rolta's solutions can help by:
- Improving enterprise performance in an era of reduced reimbursement. Healthcare Enterprise Performance Management improves client's insight into their organization.
- Improving visibility into operational, financial and clinical performance
- Identifying clinical procedures and techniques that improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of care
- Reducing IT spend for maintaining heterogeneous, fragmented clinical solutions
- Leveraging Clinical Hosting Services which reduce the cost of IT spend to support current best of breed environments
- Reducing IT spend through interoperability solutions such as iPerspective™ and Rolta's global sourcing capabilities.
Solution - Innovation
Rolta's solutions are focused on integrating silo'ed best of breed applications in order to surface the information that is required for insightful decision making and improved clinical performance. Improved regulatory compliance, improved re-imbursements and reducing in IT costs are the key goals.
Advantage - Insight
New insights emerge when information can be integrated from isolated systems. Rolta's solutions enable new insights to be gained through the integration of clinical, financial and administrative data to enhance profitability and compliance.
Benefit - Impact
Healthcare IT is a complex set of applications, services and technologies. The cost to maintain this environment is the single largest budget item in a hospital's IT budget. By reducing the costs of delivering IT services to the hospital, monies are freed up to focus on new innovation. The healthcare industry is changing rapidly. New mandates, regulations and reimbursement structures impact the financial well being of healthcare providers. Strategically, healthcare providers must be prepared to demonstrate to patients, government and payers their ability to track their clinical and financial performance, improve their performance and find innovative ways to improve clinical care.
Management View
Business Objectives
Managing the information technology applications and infrastructure for a heath care provider is certainly challenging given the changes in the industry. Best of Breed solutions are typically good at their core functionality but struggle to support the information integration requirements of a major healthcare provider. This situation manifests itself in challenges associated with:
- Achieving regulatory compliance
- Generating quality and timely reports to payers
- Providing key performance indicators of business processes that cross isolated clinical, financial and administrative systems
- Reducing the cost and complexity of information technology in the midst of significant business challenges and the constraints of legacy systems.
These objectives can only be achieved through innovative solutions that access information in existing systems without duplication, making sense of the information in light of key performance indicators, reporting on the information so that trends can be seen and comparative analysis performed and improved clinical and financial performance achieved through the insights generated.
Solution
Historically healthcare providers have focused on targeted solutions to their discrete clinical issues. This has led to best of breed targeted solutions that do not integrate well with each other. By taking an enterprise view of healthcare IT, and bringing together information from silo'ed clinical, administrative and operational solutions, Rolta can change the healthcare IT paradigm and provide insight into quality of care, financial performance and operational excellence.
Approach
Our approach is to provide an integration (and interoperable) platform to bring together information from disparate sources within the healthcare organization, create the metadata around that information and provide insights that drive quality and performance initiatives.
Business Value
Improving clinical insights, operational insights and financial insights improves clinical care and reduces costs.
Healthcare IT teams are challenged to:
- Enable best of breed solutions to "talk to each other"
- Manage complex IT environments that require advanced expertise to achieve high performance and high availability both today and in the future.
- Develop Security and Identity Management policies and procedures that drive down personnel costs and minimize the impact to users of these environments.
- Extend the capabilities of applications to support changing internal and external requirements.
The poor integration of key financial, administrative and clinical systems certainly makes the job of a Healthcare IT professional a challenge.
Rolta provides:
- Clinical System Hosting
- Interoperability Services (including iPerspective)
- Oracle Identity Manager and CA Security Solutions
- Hyperion and OBIEE solutions for analytics and Enterprise Performance Management
Rolta works closely with your organization to ensure our solutions meet your organizational and IT requirements. The technologies and techniques we use are based on industry and IT standards. Best practices are used throughout the implementation. Our Training and Mentoring approach assures that your team is able to use the solution. We strive to understand your strategies and goals and work closely with your teams to ensure they are able to fully maintain and support the solutions we jointly implement.
By first understanding your requirements and then applying the insights gained from healthcare and other industries, our consultants craft solutions to help you achieve your financial, clinical and IT goals.
Technical View
Technical Issues
Healthcare IT teams are challenged to:
- Enable best of breed solutions to “talk to each other”
- Manage complex IT environments that require advanced expertise to achieve high performance and high availability both today and in the future.
- Develop Security and Identity Management policies and procedures that drive down personnel costs and minimize the impact to users of these environments.
- Extend the capabilities of applications to support changing internal and external requirements.
The poor integration of key financial, administrative and clinical systems certainly makes the job of a Healthcare IT professional a challenge.
Solution Components
Rolta provides:
- Clinical System Hosting
- Interoperability Services (including iPerspective)
- Oracle Identity Manager and CA Security Solutions
- Hyperion and OBIEE solutions for analytics and Enterprise Performance Management
Implementation
Rolta works closely with your organization to ensure our solutions meet your organizational and IT requirements. The technologies and techniques we use are based on industry and IT standards. Best practices are used throughout the implementation. Our Training and Mentoring approach assures that your team is able to use the solution. We strive to understand your stregies and goals and work closely with your teams to ensure they are able to fully maintain and support the solutions we jointly implement.
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
By first understanding your requirements and then applying the insights gained from healthcare and other industries, our consultants craft solutions to help you achieve your financial, clinical and IT goals.
