Rules/Workflow Engine

Using our rules engine, healthcare organizations can dynamically modify processes to change routing instructions base on data or exceptions. Enterprises can also configure the rules engine to automatically adapt to changing business or regulatory processes that will be implemented. User defined rules determine task or message routing. End-users can configure rules based on a variety of attributes. Our tools for monitoring and modifying business processes set us apart from other seemingly similar technology.

Our approach is simple. We connect systems, transform and route data. Using Microsoft BizTalk as the core of the product, New Age Systems has added a healthcare layer which converts data from legacy systems to XML. KineXions (connections) employs a fast and inexpensive interface design, using point and click graphics and standard communication clients. We provide guaranteed message delivery. KineXions is rules based, and is chock full of tools to help your staff troubleshoot problems. We're compliant with HIPAA regulations (i.e. required security and encryption for EDI transactions).

The rules engine can act on any information stored in any of your information systems. It can combine information from multiple systems, apply criteria and report outcomes. Just imagine how you can use this technology in healthcare…

Interface engine functionality: We connect systems, transform and route data. Using Microsoft BizTalk as the core of the product, New Age Systems has added a healthcare layer which converts data from legacy systems to XML. Interface design is fast and inexpensive, using point and click graphics and standard comm clients. KineXions provides guaranteed message delivery, is rules based, and is chock full of tools to help your staff troubleshoot problems. We're compliant with HIPAA regulations (i.e. required security and encryption for EDI transactions).

Business Process Management (BPM): KineXions provides the infrastructure for powerful business process management and monitoring functionality. With data exposed as XML, we can use web services to string together componentized business processes to address business problems with the best parts of existing applications. These composite applications combine functions from multiple applications to execute a larger, near real-time process. It provides support for application-level AND human interaction from a single solution. Our message processor manages the business process instances as they flow through the process model following the logic in the business rules. Each activity in the business process may call applications to perform work (ADT, pharmacy, lab, web service, etc.) or create tasks (such as approvals) that humans complete. It provides complete end-to-end management of business processes. Examples include…

• Supply chain management.
• HMO referrals.
• Patient self-service for appointment scheduling and pre-registration.
• Physician self-service for surgery scheduling.
• CPOE (computerized physician order entry)--KineXions provides a quick and easy means of designing and coordinating physician order entry, a complex process which spans multiple applications (patient care, pharmacy, lab), people (physicians and pharmacists), and business rules.

Business Process Monitoring: BPM is also about accessing the business-level data for measuring, monitoring, and improving patient care, safety, and other business processes. The runtime environment maintains the status of each process instance. As hundreds of thousands of instances of different business processes execute, they can be used to measure performance. The information can be used in real time to identify and manage exceptions; or retrospectively, to identify performance improvement opportunities. Examples include…

• Time from order placement to medication administration.
• Cost of delays (i.e. discharge, surgery, tests, services).
• Wait time for tests and treatments.
• Frequency of beta blocker utilization.
• Timeframes for prophylactic antibiotic administration.
• Real time charges for patient to date.
• Information about instances in which patient safety rules result in a physician modifying an order.

KineXions can act on any information stored in any of your information systems. It can combine information from multiple systems, apply criteria and report outcomes. Just imagine how you can use this technology in healthcare…

How does it work?
KineXions uses Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 (see www.microsoft.com/biztalk for more information) as the core of its product. BizTalk is a web-based interface engine, which utilizes the latest standards, such as XML, SOAP, PKI, and S/MIME. KineXions adds a healthcare layer to meet and exceed the total business integration needs of the healthcare organization. KineXions creates an information flow that makes the right information available to the right people at the right time.