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Enabling Business Efficiency for Medical Technology Providers

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Database Security
Cybersecurity & Privacy - Identity & Authentication Management
Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

The Challenge

As the company expanded into new geographies and areas of therapy, existing patient management platform performance was unable to support future business needs. This resulted in end user satisfaction being compromised.

Some of the business challenges were:

Value based care delivery: Robust platform to support wide array of devices, data, and applications that manage patient data with utmost security. This facilitates the delivery of customised care to end-users, increasing the patients’ adherence to medication.

Business efficiency: Integration with legacy enterprise applications to ensure seamless exchange of customer, product, and sales data between BU’s as well as enabling KPI tracking at various enterprise levels

Shorten time to market: Ability to run complex analytical models and data science functionality on the data collected from multiple sources to streamline development cycles.

About The Customer

Medial Technology Providers

The Solution

HCL’s workshop led DEFINE engagement was leveraged to identify the gaps in the existing system based stringent AS-IS analysis. In the BUILD phase, HCL developed an end-to-end platform stack connecting patients, physicians, sales, and operations teams

THE PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE HAS THE FOLLOWING CORE COMPONENTS:

Architecture to support both private and public cloud platforms, with extensive protocol support to integrate patient and business end points for additional business use-cases

Data security at all layers of the IoT stack to ensure privacy and security compliances. Additionally, enabling data segregation to different levels in line with regional laws and regulatory requirements

Compatible architecture with 3rd party applications, client’s existing applications, and IT infrastructure resulting in seamless integration.

Quantitative Benefit

Single platform to support up to 100 Million annual transactions.
Comprehending end-user behaviour to reduces the new product development cycle and time to market by 5-10%
Improved patient monitoring to reduce re-admission rate by 15-20% and increased medication adherence. Also, the cost arbitrage enabled through architecture that has potential to be leveraged by multiple BU’s. Reusable architecture components to suit future business use-cases.

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