Mitra Keluarga has one of the leading hospital networks in Indonesia, managing 12 hospitals across the Greater Jakarta region in the Central and Eastern Java provinces, with plans to add six more by 2019.

The healthcare solutions that will allow Mitra Keluarga to run hospitals in real time encompass operational and clinical solutions, covering financials, procurement, inventory, patient management, billing and electronic medical records (EMR), as well as solutions from Cerner i.s.h.med from SAP, on the SAP HANA platform.

The hospital operator will use SAP Electronic Medical Record and Business Process Management to gain access to a single source of clinical, organisational and financial data at the point of care, for more personalised patient interaction. The company-wide central EMR will be available on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, promoting better collaboration and real-time information exchange amongst patients and physicians and nurses, for improved patient diagnosis and treatment.

SAP’s billing solution will allow cross-department bills (for different treatments) to be consolidated into one main bill, while the SAP ERP application powered by SAP HANA will manage Mitra Keluarga’s hospital information system, managing business processes and operational efficiency across the group’s hospitals.

“Mitra Keluarga is not merely just a place where patients seek an improvement in health, but is also a home that welcomes everyone, embracing health as part of a lifestyle that is deeply engrained to Mitra Keluarga’s heart. At Mitra Keluarga, we endeavour to work towards helping our patients receive the best care by delivering quality treatment to all patients. however, doing so was a great challenge in the absence of an integrated information system,” said Ir. Rustiyan Oen, president director, Mitra Keluarga.

“By leveraging the expertise of SAP, working together with partners PT Abyor International and T-Systems, we hope to continue to deliver world-class medical services through simplifying business processes, reducing costs and achieving insightful, faster decision making. These benefits give us an opportunity to improve the quality and safety of patient care, reduce inefficiencies and wastage as well as promote better management and administration of the hospital environment itself.”

Hari Tjahjono, president director of PT Abhor International, said implementing SAP for Healthcare solutions requires extensive experience and knowledge, as well as a deep understanding of hospital business processes.

“With this implementation, we believe Mitra Keluarga will benefit from process optimisation within the organisation, not only in the back office but also in the processes around patient treatment,” said Tjahjono.

The system will first be deployed in one of the group’s hospitals, then becoming the template project for roll-outs to the rest of its hospitals in Indonesia. Mitra Keluarga will eventually have a centralised IT system that provides electronically integrated patient files, and improved visibility across the enterprise for better planning and faster execution.

T-Systems, another partner on the project, has successfully implemented similar technology for community and private hospitals in Singapore.

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SAP formed the Connected Health group to bring together numerous initiatives within the company to address the healthcare market holistically. SAP has previously stated its commitment to enabling smarter health decisions and advancing medical knowledge through the world in order to improve lives and reduce costs across the healthcare continuum.

“SAP has contributed to the improvement of healthcare for more than a decade,” said Seve Singh, member, SAP Executive Board.

“With the recent establishment of the SAP Connected Health group, we are now poised to take a broader role, and Thomas is the right leader to move our efforts forward. The SAP Connected Health platform and the ecosystem of partners we’re building around it are dedicated to taking advantage of the latest medical and technological advancements to solve real-world problems in global healthcare.”

Laur brings to the role expertise in global revenue management, product innovation, corporate strategy, organisational strategy, and mergers and acquisition.

“Healthcare globally is going through unprecedented change as a result of new medical insights, technological advancements, and the changing expectations of patients,” said Laur. “Because SAP technology supports the entire cycle of care, from providers to researchers to patients, we are uniquely positioned to drive digital innovation across the healthcare system through a connected health platform. I’m thrilled to join the SAP team at this critical moment in the evolution of healthcare.”

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The platform brings together an ecosystem of partners, including developers, researchers and healthcare organisations to accelerate the development of patient-centred solutions.

“Creating a truly connected global ecosystem can increase the rate of innovation in healthcare services and improve patient outcomes while reducing costs and accelerating the time to bring innovative solutions to market,” said Steve Singh, member of the SAP Executive Board.

SAP has already established strategic relationships with CancerLinQ, Castlight Health and Dharma Platform on the new platform.

CancerLinQ has been working with SAP to develop a health information technology platform that makes a huge amount of practice treatment insights accessible to clinicians to improve the care of every patent with cancer.

“ASCO and SAP combine the expertise of the world’s leading oncologists with the market-leading big data analytics technology to build and run CancerLinQ, the only rapid-learning system designed by oncologists for oncologists,” said CancerLinQ chief executive officer Kevin Fitzpatrick.

“CancerLinQ is currently being used by practices across the United States, and we are excited about its future. The SAP Connected Health platform will significantly enhance our efforts.”

Castlight Health helps employees to make better healthcare decisions, and enables companies providing benefits to communicate and measure their benefits programs, while Dharma Platform helps field healthcare workers and researchers to collect, understand and analyse medical data gathered in field situations that can be challenging.

“Organisations that manage crises, among many others, need information that’s reliable, complete and actionable,” said Jesse Berns, cofounder and chief executive officer at Dharma Platform.

“Our team at Dharma looks forward to working with SAP and its many partners through the SAP Connected Health platform to help data save lives in some of the most challenging settings around the world.”

The announcement was made at the 28th annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference.

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SAP Health Engagement, which has been built on the HANA Cloud Platform, will allow health providers, health insurers and pharmaceutical companies the ability to build custom applications to help patients track their health through goal-setting and personalised assessments for chronic diseases and conditions.

By linking patients to healthcare professionals through real-time data and high-speed analytics, the technology will also physicians and health program managers to implement early interventions to improve health outcomes and lower healthcare costs.

The solution grew out of a partnership between SAP and Roche Diabetes Care Germany, which saw the creation of the SAP Heath Link solution, for the prevention of diabetes. SAP Health Link facilitated connections through digital services between healthcare professionals and patents at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, to encourage lifestyle changes.

SAP drew on the insights from this partnership as well as feedback from other customers to structure SAP Health Engagement as a flexible development toolkit that can be used to create applications tailored to any chronic disease or conditions. These applications could also be used to engage patients in clinical trials, and provide personalised home care.

“In principle, this platform has the potential to improve and individualise the cooperation between physicians and patients for any kind of chronic disease,” said Dirk Uebelhor, head of Roche Diabetes Care Germany.

Customers can be onboarded for the solution by scanning a unique QR code, which then allows data to be pulled from the back-end database into their mobile device. SAP Health Engagement can also patient-generated and wearable sensor data in the mobile application.

Program managers can create customised wellness programs, delivered through a mobile healthcare consumer application, and patient data can be collected and stored securely in order to be utilised for research. The solution gives patients full control of their personal health data and access privileges for this information.

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SAP has now launched the SAP Foundation for Health and the SAP Medical Research Insights solution, built on the HANA platform, to facilitate the integration of patient data, from biomedical data to electronic medical records to clinical trials.

“SAP is committed to helping the world run better and improving people’s lives, and what better way to fulfil this pledge than by developing software to advance personalised medicine,” said McDermott. “The healthcare industry’s first step will be transforming core business operations with a live system strategy built on the SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA suite of applications. With SAP Foundation for Health powered by SAP HANA, you get an unprecedented ability to handle inputs like medical research, electronic health records and human genome sequencing. With SAP Medical Research Insights we’re coming even closer to better access to data and more positive patient outcomes.”

SAP Foundation for Health will provide a flexible and extensible clinical data warehouse model, as well as analytics on large-scale structured and unstructured data, enabling life sciences companies and healthcare organisations to develop and target new drugs, devices and services, and undertake real-time flexible R&D analysis, patient cohort building and analysis, patient trial matching, and extended care collaboration solutions.

The first solution to run on SAP Foundation for Health is SAP Medical Insights, which was codeveloped with the National Centre for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and has already received a prestigious Red Dot Design Award.

The NCT, which delivers patient care, cancer research and cancer prevention, was operating on an old system with required medical staff to search multiple databases, compile patient lists, print patient files and manually check if patients matched criteria for clinical trials by reviewing each file individually. This made accessing and analysing patient data an extremely complex and time-consuming process.

“The team from the NCT worked closely with the SAP Innovation Center site to conduct observations, incorporate feedback and iterate in short cycles, which resulted in a well-rounded, award-winning solution,” said Professor Dr Christof von Kalle, managing director of the NCT and head of Translational Oncology.

“With SAP Medical Research Insights, medical staff can visualise and analyse patient data in real time due to the speed of SAP HANA and simple app design. This provides a holistic view of a patient’s medical history in a graphical timeline, allowing physicians more time to care for patients instead of going through paperwork. It also dramatically reduces the turnaround time for clinical studies, which can ultimately lead to life-changing discoveries.”

SAP has also partnered with the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) non-profit subsidiary, CancerLinQ to develop a health information technology platform that will harness big data from millions of de-identified patient records to deliver high-quality, personalised care to people with cancer and cancer survivors.

“With our cancer expertise complemented by SAP’s unique ability to break down data silos and provide real-time analytics on massive amounts of federated clinical data, CancerLinQ is in a position to make a huge leap toward becoming the platform of choice for oncologists,” said Kevin Fitzpatrick, CEO, CancerLinQ.

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