Information management and discovery solutions for the Healthcare sector must have the patient as the focus, and bring together a disparate range of information and content types from across a very wide range of content sources.
As healthcare organizations are met by the challenges of scaling their operations while retaining tight control over costs, and meeting legislated requirements for digitalization, they are increasingly turning to SharePoint as a platform to store and manage processes digitally. Several key challenges face the sector, and require elegant and effective solutions in order to fully implement a 360 degree HealthCare solution based on SharePoint.
Finding and Navigating Data, Managing Compliance and Process
The need to provide powerful patient-centric navigation, as well as a structural interface for implementing workflows and processes is a core requirement. All of the information relevant to a specific patient, as well as information from related spheres must be gathered together and presented through a simple unified interface. Similarly, all of the actions and trackable work processes applicable to specific patients must be accessible from the same location.
The challenge of managing enormous sets of data is compounded by the need to ensure complete record-keeping and transparent archiving, as every decision, log-in or new set of hands on a patient’s treatment must be documented and recorded in a way that is both stringent, yet does not overly burden healthcare practitioners. Additionally, the need to archive or retrieve specific decision chains in disputed cases or for research purposes is paramount.
By centralizing all of a patient’s information into a Patient History, together with all of the relevant actions and processes, the Ontolica healthcare solution exposes information and processes into a single powerful search interface. With support for implementing formalized taxonomies, or evolving them based on the organic terms emerging from within the healthcare community, the Ontolica healthcare solution combines an intuitive and extremely powerful unified patient-centric search solution. Capable of transparently gathering, tracking and maintaining the status of all key information about a patient, but also drawing in related information from secure, trusted sources, the solution delivers this information to healthcare practitioners, allowing them make life-saving decisions.