Enhancing Quality and Cutting Costs

The healthcare industry is constantly faced with pressures to cut costs while maintaining or enhancing the quality of care, all the while facing a rapidly increasing customer base and strict government and industry regulations.

iWay Software's integration solutions are helping healthcare organizations streamline business processes, preserve IT investments, and rapidly and cost-effectively implement key initiatives for meeting many of their challenges:

• Providing doctors, administrators, adjusters, and patients the ability to access and interact with relevant systems, services, and information
• Combining diverse healthcare resources
• Adhering to governmental regulations based upon the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Complying with the Health Level Seven (HL7) organization's specifications
• Preparing for bioterrorism response
• Leveraging existing investments, while delivering immediate ROI
• Maximizing the effectiveness of existing assets
• Streamlining routine processes

iWay Software, in conjunction with our parent company, Information Builders, provides complete solutions from enterprise-level integration to real-time information delivery.

For more information on Information Builders' solutions for healthcare organizations, click here.

Solutions in Action

For a complete overview of the types of solutions iWay has helped build, read about our Healthcare Solutions. Here are a few examples:

Academic Services

• The University of North Texas Health Science Center uses WebFOCUS, powered by iWay Intelligent Adapters, to streamline the course evaluation process, reducing time for processing from days to seconds.

Budgeting

• Tenet Health Systems created a powerful and robust budgeting system that allows users to create detailed budgets by facility.

Balanced Scorecard

• Aurora Consolidated Laboratories used WebFOCUS, powered by iWay Intelligent Adapters, to implement balanced scorecard reporting in 6 months (half the estimated time) and saved at least $1 million in programming and consulting costs.

Enterprise-Wide Reporting

• Medstar uses WebFOCUS, powered by iWay Intelligent Adapters, to improves healthcare by giving doctors, nurses, executives, and financial analysts fast, simple, and intuitive access to administrative and clinical information. Watch the video.

Press Release

• iWay Software Partners With Broadbeam to Deliver Wireless Route Management, Field Service, Sales Force, Merchandizing, and Health Care Applications

Public Health

• The Missouri Department of Health uses WebFOCUS, powered by iWay Intelligent Adapters, to help better identify potential health threats by integrating information from over 60 sources to provide public and private health providers with easy access to public immunization records.
• NYC Department of Health uses WebFOCUS, powered by iWay Intelligent Adapters, to give public online access to restaurant inspection results.

HIPAA and HL7 Standards Compliance Solutions

Case Study

• Trustmark Insurance Company, a medical benefits administrator, is rapidly designing and building critical pieces required to meet HIPAA standards.

• iWay Software: HIPAA Solutions and Beyond

Technology Brief

• The iWay HIPAA Adapter and Healthcare Integration Solution for IBM WebSphere

Press Release

• iWay Software's HIPAA Integration Software Chosen by Trustmark Insurance

Bioterrorism Response Solutions

• iWay Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Touchpoint Adapter

Solution Brief

• iWay Bioterrorism Response Suite

News

• City of New York Department of Health – Federal Computer Week report

Press Release

• iWay Software Delivers Integrated and Comprehensive Bioterrorism Response Suite

Partners

• IBM
• TriZetto® Group, Inc.