His in the Cloud

Increasing digitalization in the healthcare sector brings new challenges, particularly for hospitals, university clinics, and hospital groups. Data volumes are growing disproportionately both for individual facilities and for all patients. The previous solution was to book more capacity in local data centers. However, this approach is not only dubious from a business point of view, new functions, application options and features are being lost to hospitals by sticking to conventional IT structures. Instead, web-based and future-proof information systems are needed.

Providers of hospital information systems (HIS) have a particular opportunity and responsibility in this context. But even here, many are not even close to being "cloud-ready". Nevertheless, they are usually the first point of contact when hospitals need to drive forward the digital transformation and implement web-based hospital information systems.

However, with SAP's withdrawal from IS-H and the end of maintenance approaching, HIS manufacturers could now make the most of their industry and consulting expertise: Show your customers cloud-based infrastructure solutions that cover and even exceed the current digital state of the art in the healthcare market. The timing is ideal: Hospitals desperately seek cloud-based HIS, HIS-as-a-service solutions, and new possibilities, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Now is the right time for HIS manufacturers to approach their hospital customers and work with them to find solutions. After all, current and future hospital requirements can only be met with and in the cloud. In addition to all relevant core functions and innovative AI application options, hyperscalers and public cloud providers, above all, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, also score points with interesting business features: While capacities are always booked at full load in the local data center, pay-as-you-go models in the public cloud even ensure significant cost savings.

However, the most significant advantages of hosting and data management in the cloud lie in its future viability. Suppose you want to have the right information in the right place at the right time, create AI-supported prediction models from your data lakes, or optimize reimbursement and patient management. In that case, you can no longer ignore the cloud with its AI deployment options.

The good news is that all the necessary cloud solutions and infrastructures for HIS manufacturers and their customers - hospitals, university clinics, and hospital groups - already exist on the market. The task now is to select them in a customer- and criteria-oriented manner and to ensure with a high degree of care that the HIS meets all these requirements and runs smoothly in the cloud.
 

1. Improved image for your company
2. Increased customer loyalty thanks to a future-proof, state-of-the-art solution
3. Profiling from software provider to "partner" in digitalization
4. Scaling your HIS solution for new (European) customer groups
5. More excellent data and IT security for your hospital customers
6. Reduction in IT structure costs for hospital customers
7. Greater efficiency and flexibility for hospitals, for example, through mobile, web-based solutions
8. Image enhancement for your hospital customers - state-of-the-art equipment
9. Specializing your IT in your HIS solutions by outsourcing cloud expertise to specialized partners

Buzzwords and market requirements such as sovereign IT, cloud digitization, hyperscaling, and big data are issues that are difficult for a HIS manufacturer to solve on its own. The increasing qualification requirements for employees, the high pace of technical change, and the differentiated and constantly growing challenges in terms of data security, information exchange in the healthcare sector, the electronic patient record (ePa), and hospital-specific requirements such as the use of AI in business administration or reimbursement: All of this calls for a highly specialized, competent and yet individual partnership for an HIS manufacturer.

Arvato Systems is precisely this reliable and highly qualified partner for all current and future challenges facing HIS manufacturers. We are in close contact with all major players in the German healthcare sector and global hyperscalers, operate the central TI services(telematics infrastructure), develop our products, such as the TI messenger tim+, and are a proven cross-industry pioneer in all aspects of digital transformation in Germany. This is how we ensure the infrastructure operation of your HIS in the cloud.

1. Integration into Bertelsmann as an international company with consolidated revenues of over €20 billion (2023)
2. Center of Excellence - Long-standing and experienced international IT service provider for digital transformation and operator of Gematik's central TI services and in the KRITIS environment
3. Competence team with experts from the e-health sector
4. Multi-cloud provider: Excellent and certified cloud expertise with state-of-the-art standards from all relevant cloud providers with the highest levels of certification
5. Reliable SaaS partner for innovation, flexibility, and proximity
6. Established cloud outsourcing specialists with their server parks for susceptible data
7. Best performance and maximum flexibility with Avvia Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
8. High contribution to climate and environmental protection: Arvato Systems is certified according to ISO/IEC 22237 and DIN EN50600