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 Major Consumer-Driven Healthcare Company

Our client is recognized as a leader in the consumer-driven healthcare market.


Client: Major Consumer-Driven Healthcare Company
Technology:
Windows 2003, Linux
IIS
SQL Enterprise
Biztalk, SQL, .NET, SOAP
Industry: Healthcare
Service: Strategy & Program Management


The Challenge
Our client formed a partnership with a Fortune 50 Healthcare Payer to develop, market and sell a CDHP program to the Healthcare Payer’s existing and prospective client base. This initiative required gathering requirements, architecting and building dedicated environments, designing applications, testing, implementing and integrating systems between five different business partners. Ironworks began managing the project and was challenged with having all systems, environments and applications integrated and issues resolved in six months.


The Solution

Our client selected Microsoft Biztalk Server to handle the integration process between all parties: the Healthcare Payer, Caremark, Eckerd and Mellon. Ironworks designed and implemented Biztalk processes to handle receipt and delivery of data feeds to and from these partners. These data feeds include: group maintenance; member enrollment; medical and pharmacy claims processing; incentives; and data reporting. Ironworks created Biztalk pipelines and orchestrations that were used to archive, decrypt, validate, transform and store this data into a SQL Server Database. With this data, Biztalk was also used to create outgoing, flat file extracts, encrypt them and then transport them to the respective vendors.

Ironworks was also tasked with managing and leading the implementation and integration of all project tracks on our client’s behalf. This included coordinating meetings and discussions with over 100 active project participants among the multiple parties, mitigating risks and issues through detailed issue tracking, budget and status reporting, creating and maintaining multiple project plans, and effective resource management. In addition, Ironworks gathered and documented business and system requirements, as well as, created and executed the functional, integration and volume test scenarios and test plans. Through a collaborative effort, the client and Ironworks led the 50 Healthcare Payer  to a successful launch of their CDHP program.



The Results

Among the many benefits our client realized were: 

  • The project was completed on time and the Healthcare Payer was profitable from the outset of the project; and
  • New issue tracking and code deployment processes. 

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