Kalmar County Council

Kalmar County Council, a medical establishment in Sweden needed to establish a base for existing and future IT systems.  The goal was to share digital information of medical records in a secure way. The vision was "one patient one medical case-book".

Leading Pharma company

Company wanted to cut $4 billion in costs and improve employee productivity.  Also it wanted to accelerate the drug development process by enabling better information sharing and coordination.  Another requirement was to provide better visibility and more accurate time-to-market predictions for new drugs going to market.  Finally they wanted to improve business efficiency by automating and consolidating processes, applications, and systems into one shared platform.  SOA based project  was implemented to create a common platform for the Application Service Delivery (ASD) project, to share infrastructure across departments.  SOA Organization and strategy was developed alongwith ASD reference architecture.  Self-service environment for business units to develop their own portals, using the same common infrastructure and backend.  As a result the company achieved improved visibility into product line resulting in business agility to take pharmaceutical products market, cost savings and reduced headcount, driving towards $4 billion in savings, better use of core architecture, improved data integration and management, more reusability and achieving 99.999% uptime on a stable platform

Canada Health Infoway

The Canada Health Infoway's (Infoway) mandate was to develop an architecture to support an Interoperable Electronic Health Record (iEHR). This record is designed to facilitate the sharing of data across the continuum of care, across health care delivery organizations and across geographies. The architecture was developed with a few key principles in mind from agility to support the evolving nature of healthcare delivery, to hard financial benefits. The architecture has been adopted by all of the jurisdictions in Canada. An independent study of the cost/benefits of the HIAL and iEHR was done for Infoway by Booz Allen Hamilton. They estimated total cost of IT enabling the healthcare system to be $9.9B. The annual benefits (savings or cost avoidance in healthcare services) are estimated at $6.1B and to be $82.4B over 20 years.

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Healthcare Major Client

Healthcare client wanted to do a business transformation owing to a portfolio of incompatible legacy systems that hindered its ability to compete.  Using SOA, they could accelerate time-to-market by 9 months.  challenges included unable to compete with competitors due to long time-to-market, information not available to users in realtime due to inflexible architecture, hampering client's servicing capabilities, replication of reference information across units leading to synchronization nightmares, regulatory compliance requirements that could change pretty frequently, and core legacy applications not able to exchange information with newer systems.  A detailed study of the existing business processes identified redundancies, and opportunities for reducing the operations cycle, improving workflow and infrastructure.  Based on this study, the processes were streamlined for superior performance and customer satisfaction.  The program enabled the client to reduce the time-to-market to three months from one year.  The client achieved a cumulative savings of USD 12 million in first year due to streamlining and automation fo thee claim adjudicatiion process.  The savings arose from a 6% improvement in the auto-adjudication rate due to automation.  Processes were streamlined and application portfolio rationalized without losing the business knowledge in existing legacy systems.  The program also resulted in enhanced and seamless collaboration with partners and customers, in real tiime due to centralized informatioin access.

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