Healthcare Messaging & Orchestration — 2019

The objective is to provide a solution that can span tens or hundreds of hospitals in a system, enabling intra-enterprise messaging on a large scale and aggregating data at the enterprise level. Mobile Heartbeat and Spok are moving in this direction. A different but related capability to enterprise scalability is inter-enterprise communications. There is a significant amount of communications between those within a provider organization and external health care trading partners that also care for the patient. These different users include hospital clinicians/caregivers, physician practices, sub acute care, patients, and payers. Discharge planning, avoiding readmissions and managing patients in ambulatory settings are some of the use cases where communicating with those outside the enterprise is a necessity. This capability requires a user directory structure that supports users outside the enterprise. A good example of this is DocbookMD, acquired by Medici in 2018. DocbookMD's go-to-market strategy, and underlying user directory structure, targeted county medical societies to endorse or buy DocbookMD's messaging solutions for all the physician members of that medical society. Halo Communications has a different approach, using national physician ID numbers to find users who are outside of the enterprise. Either way, the need to communicate with health care providers and trading partners outside the enterprise is a growing requirement for messaging systems. Market S...
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