SharePoint 2013 – A Comprehensive Solution to the Healthcare Industry Users

Upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 can do a world of good for people in all sectors, whilst it can be more so beneficial for those in the healthcare industry. Document collaboration, one of the core tasks of an organization, is made easy as the base structure is the same for both the versions – SP 2010 and SP 2013. However, SharePoint 2013 brings to the table some significant changes, which offers a better experience to users. The drag-and-drop option and the option to edit metadata in the datasheet are a couple of notable changes you will find in SharePoint 2013.

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 can benefit the healthcare industry users in a lot of ways. The newly enhanced search option displays a list of related search terms when you type in your search query, which is really appreciable. Moreover, it displays how many times a particular item or search query has been viewed by the other users.

All in all, SharePoint 2013 helps the healthcare industry users in two main ways: one is that, it lets you streamline your content and manage it effectively. And, it lets you connect with people in different industries and share invaluable knowledge.

Simply put, with their latest version, SharePoint developers have ensured that any user can turn convert raw data into productive data and manage it effectively without any assistance from the IT team. Best of all, it also makes it possible to respond to business queries instantly, which is one of the key responsibilities of an organization.

How to secure SharePoint environment

Generally, organizations find it difficult to control the SharePoint management system which is required to meet the critical management challenges like- control site sprawl, and view and edit permissions easily across entire SharePoint environments. It equips organizations with the deftness and control required to easily meet these critical management challenges in SharePoint Application Development.

SharePoint management is needed

1. To manage information governance and security policies on risk-defined content.
2. To provide an easy control on settings, configurations, and security policies at any SharePoint object level.
3. To move, copy, and restructure SharePoint apps, content, sites, and topology within or across environments 
4. To automate the deployment of customizations and configurations within or across SharePoint farms.
5. To replicate content, configurations or security settings across SharePoint environments.

Developing SharePoint apps

SharePoint application development is easier with SharePoint 2013 which gives a strong development platform for building solutions and apps addressing different requirements and fulfills the needs of businesses. The SharePoint platform enables you to develop applications that have the following features:

• Scalable- SharePoint allows you to add applications and features as needed to meet growing demands. 
• Collaborative- this feature of SharePoint allows you to create workspaces where people share ideas, documents, and other important documents.
• Content-driven- SharePoint allows you to create and publish content that is customized according to the needs of the users.

Empower your enterprise with SharePoint Solutions from Saviance

SharePoint is a customizable, collaborative web application. Organizations use SharePoint to create websites, corporate intranets, and as an effective tool for custom database storage, ticketing systems, document management and much more. Microsoft SharePoint is not only a development platform, but also a fully featured website application. You can easily install SharePoint application on the server, and have the site running in no time.

Saviance provides SharePoint solutions which are built to

• Lower IT cost
• Enable advanced collaboration
• Deliver higher-quality services for SharePoint users

Our team of experts works on development of SharePoint applications in order to enable our clients to acquire maximum advantage upon minimum investment. Saviance has a pool of experienced SharePoint professionals who undertake extensive SharePoint Application Development for our clients to provide them with easy solutions customized to their needs.

SharePoint provides solutions which help organizations to work efficiently on Microsoft Windows network. It has the ability to integrate directly with Active Directory and can be easily customized on the web applications. It is a powerful platform that helps in the functioning of the corporate intranets more effectively.

Use SharePoint for Content Management

There are various SharePoint service offerings like Consulting, Implementation, Applications and Solutions set which provide organizations opportunities to leverage management strategies and cost effective business tools.

The SharePoint management system provides various tools to help organizations to organize, discover, build and manage business processes more smoothly and efficiently and to manage various other important tasks like data backup, security, facilitate knowledge sharing and managing of digital assets.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is one such offering in SharePoint which relates to Document Management, Records Management and Compliance and Rich Media Management.
Companies find it difficult to deal with and mange lots of data. They spend an inordinate amount of time searching for required data and putting it to good use. ECM in SharePoint helps the organizations with their document management needs and saves their valuable time.

Advantages of Using SharePoint to Manage Content

• Content is placed in a central repository. Authors are encouraged to store all content in the repository
• Authors can search, sort, and filter existing content
• Content is locked while being edited
• Metadata can be leveraged at a document level
• Metadata for graphics/media is available
• Version history is maintained (major and minor plus comments)
• Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of content
• Take file sharing to a new level with robust storage capabilities
• Reduce the complexity of securing business information

Implementation of SharePoint integration in industries

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is set to create a revolution in creation, management and organization of data in all exponentially growing industries. Since most industries have tie ups with one other such as production companies with distributors, healthcare industry with insurance companies etc. and most importantly all industries have a connection with the users, it’s become essential for real time updating of data, digitalization of documents for easy access by all departments within the organization, outside associates and users and also for easy indexed searching of the vast database which is exactly what Microsoft SharePoint 2013 can provide.

In case of health industry SharePoint integration can provide a framework to create cost effective, secure and organized database solution. An intuitive user experience increases productivity and ease of use of the platform. The most challenging task of healthcare which is maintenance of a coherent record of patient history starting from the time of the first checkup of a patient can be achieved by SharePoint’s compliant records management feature. The secure nature of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 allows easy maintenance of patient confidentiality which is a very big aspect of healthcare in US.

Maintenance of electronic medical records allows easy access to lab reports by doctors as well as patients minimizing treatment delays. All kinds of clinical content such as medical images, document images, forms, text documents, voice session recording, and emails can be effectively handled using SharePoint integration  Implementation of SharePoint integration in healthcare or any other industry enhances productivity of every department within the organization, makes it easy for management of the vast data, and trouble shooting of any problem within the organization as SharePoint maintains logs of all data input and accessed.

Benefits of using SharePoint 2010 Workflows

SharePoint 2010 solutions provide a powerful workflow feature which helps in improving business processes. It enables organizations to optimize communication and time spent by employees involved in different business processes.

The SharePoint workflow makes business processes more efficient and quick by managing and tracking ‘human tasks’ involved with the process and providing a record of the completed process. Organizations use this workflow feature to manage document creation, expense reporting, employee vacations and more.

The number of human tasks involved in business processes can slow down the speed and quality of decisions. This feature automates and manages this ‘human workflow’ efficiently. This automation results in increased speed, overall effectiveness of the interactions and a reduction in errors.

Benefits of using the SharePoint 2010 Solutions

The primary benefits of using workflows are to facilitate business processes and improve collaboration.

• Approval -   helps in guiding a proposed contract among members of an organization seeking an approval
• Expense reporting -   manages the process of submitting an expense report and associated receipts, also helps in reviewing, approving, and reimbursing
• Technical support -  manages the progress of technical support given to customers, routed to technical experts, resolved and added to knowledge base
• Interviewing -  manages the process of interviewing a job candidate, including scheduling interview appointments, collecting interview feedback, making that feedback available to subsequent interviewers and facilitating decisions
• Content publishing -  manages the approval of the publication of content on the Internet