SAINCE leads the way in Identity and Access Management for Healthcare providers
Why SAINCE?
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As a leading provider of IT services to the healthcare industry and as an IBM Business Partner, we offer unparalleled technology, experience and industry expertise to deliver solutions and services in SOA, Business Process Management, Middleware and Integration, Security, Systems management, and Data Backup and Recovery. |
In recent years, the healthcare industry has undergone a dramatic transformation in the way it both creates—and depends on—information. New diagnostic and imaging techniques can create enormous amounts of data, while telemetry and automation have extended the reach of highly trained professionals and freed them from many routine tasks. At the same time, healthcare record-keeping has progressively migrated to a more digital format, replacing literally generations of paper-based records. The sheer volume of information collected and managed by healthcare providers has itself risen in response to substantially increased focus on cost-containment and liability issues.
These trends have tended to foster multiple healthcare information systems, for clinical and professional purposes as well as for business management. The net result in many cases has been a proliferation of healthcare information systems and resources in any given setting. Clinicians, practitioners and healthcare business professionals need them all—but seldom are they harmonized or integrated to any great extent. When they are integrated, they may be required to meet exacting standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7) and its worldwide counterparts. Though serving a well-defined purpose, standardization may involve substantially increased costs for healthcare providers when they must integrate their own systems to meet requirements.
Healthcare information may be critical to saving lives and preserving health, and must therefore be highly available to professionals whenever and wherever needed. This has produced a need for healthcare information technologies that support fluid mobility, often under highly constrained conditions of network bandwidth and IT resources. When contrasted with the centralized, high-performance information stores that characterize many healthcare organizations—and with which this agile mobility must often be directly integrated— healthcare IT faces a daunting challenge. It is a challenge made all the more demanding when primary medical technologies have a priority claim on available resources in order to maintain currency and competitive differentiation. As a result, there are few industries that must realize a higher return on investment (ROI) from IT investment than healthcare.
Identity and Access Management: The Front Line of Information Care |
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