Data Flow – Any Data, from Any System, Anytime

Knowledge is power.  Well in the healthcare industry, data is power.  Data leads to Business Intelligence and Analytics providing insight into how to improve performance.  The ability to pull data from any system in your hospital and roll it up into useful information is critical to improved business performance.  For too long, Healthcare Provider Executives have lived without key information about operations, performance, quality or revenue.  Ignorance is NOT bliss.

 

The flow of data from any system into useful information is not a new idea.  In fact the idea has been around for a long time, but has been abandoned in healthcare due to the historical cost and slow response of most traditional healthcare systems, IT resources or HIS vendor restrictions.  This problem has been attacked and solved in other industries such as consumer, retail, financial services, etc.

 

TMP has broken this barrier to data access in healthcare with The EDGE™.  This is a technology platform capable of getting to information from any system, in Real-Time.  How?  Read on and as you do, ask yourself;

Given a technology platform that would allow you to get Real-Time data from anywhere; What information might be useful to solve what issue?; or uncover what metric?;  or improve what process?

 

Executive Portal

According to analysts, up to 70% of new solution development involves accessing data.  In the case of organizational intranet or web-based portals, the statistics are even higher since the data comes from many diverse sources, and it must be processed according to ever changing business policies, cross integrated, and presented in ways dictated by the ultimate end users.  With The EDGE™:

o         All your data sources are integrated

o         All your business rules and policies are implemented and automated

o         Your portal is customized to your exact specifications and requirements

o         Multiple security models and user profiles are implemented

o         Automated portal activity monitoring and advanced reporting is integrated

 

Data volumes grow constantly. Data also comes from new, unexpected sources and in new shapes and formats.  The user base grows constantly. They interact with the portals in unexpected ways. This makes customization and personalization difficult, except with The EDGE™.

 

Federated Data Network

In today's world of mergers, acquisitions and business partnerships, healthcare providers must deal with a variety of technology platforms and 100s of in-house applications.  Information about patients might be spread over multiple databases and/or applications, at different locations, on different servers across organizational boundaries.  Consolidation of these data sources into a single platform is often too expensive, unrealistic and a constant source of integration challenges.  Yet, data simply exists and persists in many forms and shapes.

 

One of the innovations of The EDGE™ is its approach to this complex integration process by instantly creating a Federated Data Network via its innovative aggregation and synchronization engine.  The EDGE™ gives the user a single, metadata-driven view of the myriad data sources as one single data network, regardless of database vendor, file type, or server location. 

 

Any System, File or Data via 2000 Connectors

Data may come from HL7, Websites, spreadsheets, from text files, from comma-separated files, from XML sources, or from legacy and/or third-party applications.  The EDGE™ currently supports a wide array of databases including, but not limited to, all major versions of Oracle, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase, Teradata, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS Access, MS Excel, XML and other file formats.

 

No Data Warehouse Costs

What if you did not have to physically build a data warehouse? What if you could get all the benefits of a data warehouse instantly as if it were as easy as Plug-and-Play? It would certainly save you and your organization enormous sums of money, free up months or even years of active development, and eliminate the risk of failure or abandonment.  Our infrastructure is a platform that provides you with a complex, data centric integration with virtually all your data sources. Within a few minutes, you could analyze your transaction records in one business unit, aggregate it and compare it against your performance data in another business unit.

 

o         Consolidate any data across the enterprise

o         Create common information models dynamically, on-demand

o         Gain unprecedented agility in your ability to make decisions

o         Automatically trace all data to its original source

o         Become more analytic driven

o         Eliminate tasks that require specialized technical skills

o         Reduce the time and costs involved in data synchronization and migration

 

Real-Time Data, Zero Latency

The EDGE™ instantly creates a Federated Data Network using an innovative aggregation and synchronization engine.  The Metadata-driven view of all data sources provides a view of all your data as one single data network, regardless of database vendor, file type, or server location.  Real-Time access to this federated data is provided by a configurable loose coupling supported by rapid connections to data sources using 2000 preconfigured and tested connectors.  No code is required due to the use of a Graphical Developer tool that provides flexible and fast creation and configuration of all rules, roll up, reporting and dashboards for output.  Data is parsed into any ODBC format and uses a Microsoft Sequel Server is standard database platform for Meta-Data.

 

EDI Transactions

Access to data from all the silo applications inside your organization is hard enough, but what about your need to provide HIPAA compliant EDI transactions with your Payer network, clearinghouses and other business partners?  The EDGE™ provides many capabilities in support of all EDI formats (835, 270, etc.) and build the workflow processes as well.  Even simple access to many payer websites can improve the overall Data Flow of your organization.

 

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