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Using BizTalk in Healthcare for HL7, HIPAA, EDI Integration

Using BizTalk in Healthcare for HL7, HIPAA, EDI Integration

Healthcare has been on the minds of many over the past few years, as politicians struggle to find the ideal solution regarding how to keep U.S. citizens covered. The argument centers around one undeniable fact: The health and well-being of the population reigns supreme in comparison to all other issues. No matter your stance on gun control or domestic partnerships, it really means nothing if you're sick. So it comes as no surprise that the issue has dominated the airwaves. Our health is paramount.

The Importance of BizTalk In Healthcare

The importance placed on healthcare permeates other industries as well. Integration development projects, especially those with Microsoft BizTalk as the Integration middleware, are consistently complex and multi-layered. Yet, the complexities are increased when the integration involves healthcare. Due to the critical nature of healthcare systems, Healthcare providers are often faced with the challenge of integrating applications as well as standards such as EDI, HL7 and HIPAA.

Often, these integrations include legacy systems that have been in place for a long time, yet contain valuable patient information. Extracting this information in a timely, secure fashion can be challenging. BizTalk allows for such integration to occur, and using Host Integration Server in conjunction with BizTalk, extracting data form legacy systems is more manageable. BizTalk 2010, Microsoft latest version of BizTalk, makes significant improvements in this area over previous BizTalk versions as well.

Additionally, BizTalk offers the following:

Integrated Electronic Health Records to ensure that health providers have complete access to a Patient's Medical History before treatment
Digitized Clinical Dashboards to give a single view into all clinical activities integrated from all applications
Optimized Clinical Supplies to make sure all clinical supplies are replenished as they are consumed
Automated Patient Scheduling to send notifications using workflows, ensuring seamless patient care

BizTalk also offers a wide range of accelerators that can speed up development time when integrating with Healthcare Solutions that depend on typical healthcare standards (HL7 , EDI and HIPAA being the most readily used). BizTalk and its accelerators provide a foundation by which sharing of information using these standards can be done relatively pain free…no pun intended.

Advantages Of Integrating BizTalk

As existing health systems are integrated quickly and cost-effectively by leveraging the power of Microsoft BizTalk Server, managing and analyzing the processes involved becomes a more pertinent activity for those responsible for gathering relevant data from these processes. By then implementing Microsoft Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), a feature included within BizTalk, Healthcare analysts are provided with the information necessary to make some trend analysis and foresee potential health threats and unforeseen health problems in their patients. In addition, the price of BizTalk is significantly lower when compared to the competition such as IBM Websphere or Webmethods.

It then comes as no surprise that effectively using information technology such as Microsoft BizTalk Server to reduce the current cost of healthcare is a key piece in the recently implemented healthcare bill. This data set used within this mandate, called the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), is set to be in place by October 1 2013. The change to ICD-10 is considered similar to Y2k, only more complex! Clearly, the road ahead is littered with several tough decisions. However, by using the correct technology, such as Microsoft's choice product for middleware, BizTalk Server, and making key decisions regarding the tools to be used, the road can be a fairly smooth one to follow.

Expanding Your Capabilities

Microsoft BizTalk Server, along with other platform technologies offer by Microsoft, such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint, allow healthcare organizations a toolset of standardized products that allows them to simplify their solution infrastructure, and enables them to reduce costs by leveraging the platforms out of the box capabilities, leverage of Microsoft's wide ranging Partner community, and the knowledge that your infrastructure is backed by the Microsoft name.

Just like none of us can take our health for granted…Healthcare organizations can't take their IT decisions for granted either. To ensure this, they need to take advantage of the latest technologies offered, in order to ensure the care they provide is second to none.

Learn more about Biztalk Healthcare Integration Services.

About the Author

Rey Diaz is the Director of Professional Services at TwoConnect, Inc., a Microsoft Gold BizTalk Partner offering BizTalk Services and Consultation. Rey has been with TwoConnect for over 10 years, serving in multiple roles and growing alongside the organization to develop a keen and unique perspective on the IT industry, and Integration consulting in particular.

As a Florida International University grad, with an MBA from the same institution, Rey has worked in the IT industry for over 18 years. To learn more about TwoConnect's services, please visit www.twoconnect.com.

Jane Friedman, CEO Open Road Integrated Media, at Digital Book World 2011