Microsoft Amalga is an integrated and policy-oriented data warehouse system used in a number of large hospitals in the U.S. The added value of Amalga is that it connects the many individual IT systems existing in the hospital and that it extracts information from these systems. By means of a programmable parser, all data from these individual systems are converted into hl7 through a hl7 encoding. This way it is possible to group, present and analyse these data. Consequently you get a store of information on all the systems and services.
Description | business case
Microsoft asked hict to examine the possibilities for the European market because it wanted to approach the European market with Amalga.
Approach
In order to answer this question hict defined a market strategy together with Microsoft. For this purpose hict carried out an inquiry based on its knowledge of the healthcare market in Belgium and Europe and based on its network. Through interviews and conversations with key stakeholders the existing or not existing need was mapped and submitted to Microsoft.
Result
A report in which the needs of the European market are mapped.