27th October 2006
Next month, PowerHealth Solutions and Idiom Software will be in Washington DC, presenting at the 9th International Business Rules Forum about our experiences with using an embedded rules engine and how it gives users the extraordinary flexibility to quickly respond to continually changing requirements and complex workflows.
PowerHealth Solutions operates in the niche market of healthcare decision support, which has complex workflows and constantly changing requirements — where users need a way of controlling the workflows and respond quickly to the changing requirements.
The company uses Idiom Software's rules engine in two of its major products — PowerPerformance Management and PowerBilling & Revenue Collection — within an application framework where users define and manage the rules governing their business in a separate repository.
PowerHealth Solutions Director Patrick Power feels strongly that a business rules engine is the answer in today's fast-moving world, as it allows users to easily change and manage their organization's policies over time, without concern over the impact of their changes on the core application.
Healthcare financial operations and reporting is a tremendously dynamic and challenging area. By integrating Idiom, we were able to build a best-of-breed application that continually adapts to each institution’s policies and procedures, while handling the complexities of government funding, insurance, resource allocation, cost controls and an ever-expanding list of medical procedures.
Idiom CTO Mark Norton said, We look forward to discussing at the upcoming Business Rules Forum how our two companies and our technology worked well together to make a highly-complex business problem manageable.
Because of the flexibility built into the business-rules-for-business-people approach, the model we will discuss in Washington can be applied to healthcare billing and reimbursement challenges in any jurisdiction around the world.
The 9th International Business Rules Forum, in conjunction this year with the First Annual Rules Technology Summit, attracts professionals interested in developing and deploying more agile, business-driven applications through the embedding of rules and decisioning support. The event is scheduled for 5-9 November 2006, in Washington, DC.
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