The healthcare industry, like the banking sector, inherently produces vast amounts of information in many diverse forms. In healthcare particularly, making sense of information is hugely difficult when one considers the many different system that firstly, produce information, and secondly store information. In most cases access is never possible due to the very personal nature of the data generated. Doctors won’t tell you anything about their patients, medical aids will keep the interesting information about their members to themselves and the drug companies need as much information as they can get to establish brand domination and feed their research and development laboratories.

However, there is still a veritable gold mine of information that can be made available that will not infringe on anyone’s right to privacy, will not compromise businesses market intelligence and will provide valuable insight to the health of a nation as a whole.

is in an ideal position to provide such health intelligence solutions and services. As transactions pass through our switching technology, medical information, both clinical and procedural, is stripped of any personal identification and stored in a secure central data warehouse. From this central store of data, business intelligence applications can be applied and hugely informative and valuable knowledge can be gleaned.

has developed a solution that provides contracted IPA’s with peer-review information about their members. This information is then either used by the IPA administration for identifying best practices for example, or fed back to the member in the form of a review of performance versus colleagues in the same region or nationally.

Our internal skills and expertise allows us to apply any number of intelligence applications that will seek out and reveal the vast amount of hidden jewels locked in the data warehouse.