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Challenges in Healthcare Technology Operations
Technology Operations is a complex area of business in the health care industry. Health Care Operations currently face large challenges in terms of Cost, Records processing, and Integration with other systems.
BPM addresses these health care challenges in terms of processes, technology and can provide services for gains across all categories of healthcare processes. The following is a brief overview of how BPM actually help companies address these challenges.
Operational Cost: Hospital management, administration, operations, finance departments are extremely complex to manage. With separate solutions for each of these functions, it becomes time consuming and unaffordable. However, emerging BPM models help in managing them under one paradigm so that it becomes easier to manage health care operations.
Improved quality of patient record management: Patient's records are unique and confidential. Developing and maintaining clinical excellence by adhering to best practices while catering to distinct individual treatment requirements for every patient is the biggest challenge for healthcare providers.BPM models adhere to HIPAA regulations, follow PHI standards, adopt EDI and NCPDP formats.
Migrating data to meet regulatory compliance norms: One of the biggest challenge facing the health care industry is the migration of data to meet regulatory standards such as HIPAA, NCPDP. Compliance to these standards is mandatory a nd this triggers the need for documentation to demonstrate compliance to stipulated norms. BPM models help in overcoming this challenge by adhering to the standards required by the health industry..
Integrating existing Systems: Healthcare companies usually have disconnected IT systems . Companies, always look to leverage existing their legacy healthcare systems. BPM helps in offering solutions that bind together legacy systems to work together to achieve SOA integration.
BPM modeling has proved to be an effective approach to address challenges in healthcare.
