Optimizing healthcare integration with Kafka at NHN

Challenges

• Norsk Helsenett (NHN), Norway's national health network organization, was searching for a way to collaborate more effectively between its 17,000 healthcare organizations while adhering to strict privacy and security regulations.
• NHN wanted to coordinate care across different regions by centralizing fragmented processes, inefficiencies, and data sharing difficulties from the independent procurement of systems by their 17,000 organizations.
• However, due to privacy laws, hospitals, and healthcare institutions can’t directly communicate with each other about patients, making efficient patient care information sharing difficult.

Why Norsk Helsenett Chose Axual

Axual provided NHN exactly what they needed:

• Axual event streaming platform provided the data interoperability needed for healthcare providers to communicate with each other, share medical data, and manage appointments without directly sharing patient information between organizations.
• Governance, strong encryption, and secure authentication mechanisms that would protect sensitive healthcare data and ensure compliance.
• Extensive digital training and onboarding for admins and operators while working closely with DevOps teams to ensure a successful implementation across all organizations.
• Continuous updates, system performance monitoring, and 2nd-line support that ensures the system's effectiveness.

Results

• Centralized oversight of event streams, ensuring that data flows are managed and monitored efficiently across the organization.
• Strong encryption and secure authentication mechanisms that protect sensitive healthcare data and ensure compliance with strict regulatory requirements.
• Comprehensive logging and traceability, enabling better visibility into data usage and changes for compliance and accountability purposes.
• Self-service capabilities let teams manage and deploy their own event streams with minimal dependency on central IT, improving agility and reducing bottlenecks.

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