Transcript Case Study: BMI Healthcare

John Moriarty
[email protected]
www.bridgeforward.net
12/09/08
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Solve problems faced by most
organizations and application vendors…
 Integration and connectivity of disparate applications
and data
 Enablement of legacy systems
 Leverage information from Heterogeneous systems
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Team
• Founded in 2003 by the
team that created
integration market
leader MicroScript and
eBiz 2000
• Reacquired product
from Sybase 2003
• Launched ClearSpan
Server 2004
• Proven market mover
in integration
Market Presence
• More than 2,500 sites
worldwide
• Largest install base of
healthcare integration
technology in US, UK
• Leader in acute care
hospitals; 1,000 in US
and 47 NHS trusts; top
two private hospitals
groups in UK
• Chosen by top KLAS
vendors - Quest /
MedPlus for OEM
Technology
• ClearSpan Server™
robust, field tested,
proven
• Embeddable; Private
label options: EDGE4
• Highly scalable
• Visionary; next gen;
multi-platform SOA
BridgeForward is a proven and
trusted leader for integration
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A Windows based Integration Engine
Connectivity to a wide variety of applications
Specializes in connectivity to legacy systems
Edge4 is the embeddable, private-label version of
ClearSpan Server
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A highly scalable architecture allowing
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Enterprise level integration deployment
Departmental deployment
Federated deployment
Lightweight embeddable OEM deployment
ClearSpan is designed to leverage the
functionality of existing applications
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 Acquire data from disparate sources
 Validate data to ensure quality content
 Transform data into required structures and formats
 Route data to target applications
 Transmit data when and where required
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Customer Goal
•To provide seamless connectivity to and from the hospital’s installed PAS and a
multitude of disparate, standalone departmental systems in a fast, cost-effective,
standardised and supportable manner using limited internal technical expertise
Highlights
•Fast, Reliable InformationSharing Across Applications.
•Improved Caregiver Workflow.
•Increased Speed and Patient
Data Accuracy.
•Increased Connectivity to the
NHS.
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Customer Goal
• Implement a new web-based patient scheduling system
• Establish a enterprise master patient index (EMPI) to provide a master patient
identifier for every patient system-wide.
• Provide two-way, real-time connectivity to the incumbent PAS in each of BMI’s 50
hospitals.
• Provide real-time connectivity to a series of NHS services.
Highlights
Simplified Data Access
Improved Caregiver Workflow
Increased Speed and Accuracy
Increased Connectivity to the
NHS
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Customer Goal
•SCI (Scottish Care Information) is a key national IM&T programme to support the
entire patient journey by developing and making available consistent IT systems
and standards, which are owned collectively, developed and facilitated centrally.
SCI supports clinical communication; Electronic Patient Record (EPR); and
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Development.
Highlights
•To create a seamless service
which gives patients continuity of
care
•More appropriate diagnosis and
referral
•Improved Outpatient booking
process
•Improved administrative handling
of patient in hospital
•Many more…
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Writing to proprietary APIs (or screen-scrape)
Procedural Programming (1960’s)
Remote Procedures calls
Adapters (common set of function calls)
Web Services
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Massive re-use of existing IT investment
Cost savings
High degree of flexibility
Rapid solution development thru re-use
“Mashing-up” : assemble to order
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 Could be
 Depends on approach
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Lack of concept maturity (SOA not well understood)
Expectation that it will be expensive
Confused with business transformation
Design & operational skills scarce
Getting S/W infrastructure to match SOA needs
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Existing EAI tools: message-based, hub & spoke
New SOA paradigm: Processed-based, all new
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Hybrid Approach: Message-driven SOA
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 Assemble order from incompatible technologies by
“enabling” existing (legacy) applications
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Incremental approach
Tactical
Bottom-up approach
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A service oriented, process-based integration suite
 Multi-Platform
 Highly Scalable
 High Performance
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Take integration to a new level that’s scalable
from device to mainframe
A component based architecture and a business
model which will appeal to OEMs
A transition technology that will support SOA
while offering the same robustness as EAI
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Current EAI integration products provide a largely
antiquated centralized enterprise view, not geared
toward a distributed integration platform
Service enablement is key to protect organization’s
major investments and assets in this area and to
support an SOA
Current products not geared to support scalability
with small footprint – next generation integration will
require “device to mainframe”
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Two ways to approach integration
 Message oriented
 Broker based, hub and spoke or federated message
passing infrastructure
 i.e ClearSpan
 Process oriented
 Orchestrated process based integration
 i.e Viaduct
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Easy integration of disparate applications
 Allow reuse of existing information assets reducing cost
and time to implementation
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Expose business logic as a reusable service
 Organizations retain their investment in applications
and infrastructure
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Service-enable legacy systems and data
 Brings older applications and data into the world of SOA
without having to apply an enterprise architecture
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Easily learn/build/maintain multiple interfaces
 Reduced implementation and maintenance costs both in
terms of manpower and skills required
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Rapid Interface Development & Deployment
 Highly productive development and configuration tools
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Deployment into virtually any environment
 from device to mainframe
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Enables full reuse of all processes & models
Functionality and productivity enhancement
 IBM Websphere, Oracle Fusion, BEA WebLogic and others
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Available as software only or as an appliance
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Perhaps it is in the eyes of the beholder
By web enabling legacy apps under an SOA
structure, real value is achieved at reasonable cost
and minimal risk
Also, the incremental. tactical, message-driven
approach is surprisingly more scalable than the
process-driven model due to its loosely coupled
nature.
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