The Healthcare Industry is currently in the process of complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). A large number of applications and databases are required to be compliant with the HIPAA guidelines, and penalties may be imposed for non-compliance.

Getting a handle on all of the data, at an enterprise level, is a goal for most companies in the healthcare industry.

Integration of data and processes in the Healthcare Industry, however, is a challenging task, because of the complexity of the data environment, and the fact that many legacy applications, that were developed decades ago, remain at the center of the systems environment. To complicate matters further, many hospitals run their applications on older or proprietary platforms (e.g. the DEC and AS400) and these environments are not well supported by the majority of data integration companies.

Global IDs helps healthcare companies create data environments that are harmonized for consistency and quality at an enterprise level. Our software can automatically scan a company's systems and database environment to find interrelationships between data and metadata on an enterprise basis.

We assist companies in the healthcare industry by

• Creating Enterprise Data Catalogs
  (comprehensive catalogs of data owned by the company at an enterprise level, allowing the companies to understand what data needs to be made compliant with HIPAA guidelines.)
  
  
• Creating Enterprise Reference Data Repositories
  (a "single version of the truth" repository of reference data, e.g. the Master Patient Index)
  
  
• Creating Identity Servers
  with Cross Reference Tables between Local Codes and Standard Codes
  e.g. the National Provider Identifier (NPI) Cross Reference
  e.g. Employer Identification Numbers (EIN) Cross Reference
  e.g. Code set Cross References , ICD-9-CM, CPT-4 , HCPCS, NDC
  
  
• Creating Analytical Environments ( Data Warehouses and Data Marts )
  These environments can be used to for
  " HIPAA Compliance Monitoring
  " Enterprise Reporting
  " Business Activity Monitoring / KPIs
  " Quantitative Analytics

By using a combination of software and services solutions, we automate significant portions of the data integration effort. As a result, we can deliver integrated data repositories to companies at a reasonable cost. We can often mitigate the risk associated with such projects, by delivering turn-key solutions.

Click here to find out more about how Global IDs' technology can dramatically reduce time and effort required for global / enterprise data integration projects.