the environment

Healthcare institutions have a legacy of silo applications, best of breed approaches, and considerable application diversity and complexity. The future calls for the increased use of information technology to improve quality and outcomes while reducing costs. The timely use of accurate information at the point of care, and providing clinical and financial decision support capabilities is critical to success. Today's healthcare IT environment is characterized by:

		Decentralization among clinical units each with its own set of applications, many using or needing the same core set of information
		Inconsistency across multiple clinical data repositories without uniform data formats, standards and definitions
		Inaccuracies in medical bills with 80% having multiple errors, from typos to erroneous charges according to the Medical Billing Advocates of America

The demands being placed on healthcare IT systems render decentralized, inconsistent, and inaccurate data intolerable. Special challenges are posed by:

		Patient service initiatives such as electronic patient records and RHIOs requiring sharing and exchange of data among applications, organizations, and providers
		Regulatory requirements regarding information storage and data retention
		Demands for high availability, increased functionality requirements, and more extensive retention policies.

the issues

Managing existing information systems in a healthcare environment is challenging. The litany of issues that result in operational and technological inefficiencies, decreased performance, and adversely impact decision making is a familiar one:

		"Overweight" production application systems and databases: Poor response times that decrease performance for users Out-of-date and irrelevant data that clutters reports and distracts users Expensive maintenance and back-up requirements Unstable systems that result in outages and increase recovery times
		Questionable data quality, incomplete, and conflicting information among applications that adversely affects quality of care, patient safety, and patient service
		Multiple data entry points, and silo applications and databases that don't communicate
		Costly efforts to store, maintain, integrate, and replicate multiple copies of databases.

the solutions

eprentise^® software addresses the information technology issues of "overweight" applications, poor data quality, silos of information, multiple sources of truth and new or unanticipated regulatory requirements. eprentise provides:

		Rules-based software that enables data archiving or a divestiture based on user-driven policies and business criteria. This is a workaround for proprietary vendor solutions or custom solutions that have limited archiving capabilities.
		Identification and reconciliation of duplicate and/or redundant data within a database or across applications that when resolved will improve performance, productivity, decision support, and customer service
		Software that copies, merges, filters, and changes data without coding or expensive consultants
		Software that consolidates any two relational database without losing any transaction history
		Software that increases efficiency, speed, and accuracy of data consolidation when the business needs to consolidate systems or move multiple systems to a single solution
		A method of accelerating changes in applications as enterprises and business models change

the benefits

eprentise offers a variety of benefits for information owners, your enterprise IT group, and decision makers in your organization, including:

		An archive of mission-critical systems that enables inactive data to be removed from production systems resulting in reduced database size, improved performance, and lower operating costs
		Repeatable, flexible, and cost-effective software that requires no coding or technical consultants
		Consolidation of multiple databases or repositories
		Complete, Consistent, and Correct data across all applications by eliminating the typical 10% to 60% of duplicate data in an organization
		User-friendly, non-technical software that uses business rules to enable business information owners the ability to control data

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