Legacy applications that support healthcare operations can span multiple generations of technology architecture. This notion of platform diversity has led recently to a proliferation of portal solutions as each vendor wraps legacy technology in some way to try to make it accessible via the internet. Healthcare organizations are experiencing this proliferation from their core vendors and are further challenged by a market-driven need to respond nimbly with websites designed for a wide variety of functions from consumers to nurse recruiting to physician referral, etc. Most IT organizations are pressed to manage the core vendor portals considering how they have to consider with the rapidly shifting needs of marketing.
Enterprise 2.0 has the potential to be a transformational technology for healthcare. Enabling the concept of rapid, granular web function development, the Enterprise 2.0 technology matches well with the customer-facing and internal collaborative needs of your enterprise. .At the same time, the nature of healthcare information, especially around privacy, requires levels of rigor and access control that map well to the core competencies of the IT Department.
Gaining clarity around what you need and what you are capable of delivering is normally the first step in our eHealth roadmap approach. Establishing guidelines and standards for website development and rendering of data from a variety of legacy applications follows, including prioritization of gap filling initiatives in a Now/Next/Later format.
Who are your most important stakeholders? How might you connect more effectively using the internet? Whatever it is, Revere can help you architect, build and deploy the Enterprise 2.0 solutions that will represent the next evolution of healthcare technology.