Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 29 | Page 65

INDUSTRY WATCH T oo many healthcare organisations cling tightly to their data, and who can blame them? With an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, protecting their customers personal information and privacy is paramount. Embracing data integration technology will result in infinitely better care for patients, as well as streamlined operations, greater efficiencies and cost savings. This is where Magic Software, a global provider of end-to-end integration and application development, comes in. Through Axiz, a host of healthcare providers are now benefiting from the Magic XPI Integration Platform, a single platform for dynamic, limitless connectivity. And it is not only benefiting hospitals; it is also helping provider and payer organisations including HMOs, PPOs, medical centres, clinics, skilled nursing facilities, health information providers, senior health care providers, dental centres and medical offices. Magic Software brings unique business benefits for healthcare providers across the board. Firstly, their software boasts open standards for flexible compliance. Magic’s XPI Integration Platform helps organisations gain fast regulatory compliance by bridging standards through a technology approach to process integration that is totally neutral. Instead of attempting to force adoption of one standard, Magic XPI understand the wide range of standards used across the healthcare industries today. www.intelligentcio.com Andre Froneman, Business Unit Manager at Axiz HL7. In this way, data transformation to and from HL7 remains a crucial need for many healthcare customers. Magix XPI features a specialised connector for HL7, offering a fantastic framework for managing the business processes around these data transformations, and doing this in a way that guarantees the best degree of operational integrity. Magic XPI also features RFID data integration. There is a growing interest in using radio frequency identification devices for tasks such as patient tracking, pharmaceuticals logistics and hazardous or biowaste management. RFID is a compelling offering as it is an efficient and cost-effective way for healthcare IT professionals to incorporate new technologies with existing applications and systems. Currently, HIPAA standards for exchange of healthcare information are based on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Magic XPI is the perfect solution to enable healthcare organisations to become compliant in line with the HIPAA standards based on EDI. In addition, the platform offers superior XML handling. As a growing number of healthcare industry protocols are moving to the use of XML to replace EDI, healthcare organisations don’t have to worry with the Magic XPI and Magic XPA, the company’s low-code platform. The majority of healthcare applications, specifically the older legacy applications, make use of information exchange via In terms of scalability, Magic’s technology can handle even the most exacting performance needs. Magic XPI INTELLIGENTCIO 65