Trans World Health Services

Integration for
Intelligent Results

SOA. HL7. X12. Web services. SQL calls. Legacy interfaces. Excel® imports. How to pull all the pieces together?

Despite untold valiant efforts, in most organizations there are still silos of data that form barriers to effective organizational performance. With so many systems and so many formats, how can the pieces be brought together so that there can be a shared, consistent organizational understanding with a single version of truth?

This question becomes critical when implementing systems for real-time business intelligence and enterprise workflow. How can information from a third-party system be obtained in real-time without unduly affecting its performance? How can tasks be coordinated when they're implemented on different systems?

TWHS staff have worked in diverse business environments to solve systems integration problems so that the appropriate information may be delivered to the right person at the right time in the right format. Integration is rarely easy-it requires an understanding not only of data systems, but how users actually use these systems. And systems integration exercises can reveal hidden data quality issues that need to be addressed to achieve the desired trust in the information.

To learn more about how TWHS has approached these problems, please take a look at the following:

Process and Systems Improvement

Real-time Business Intelligence

A hospital case study