B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Here’s a scenario that might sound familiar: you’re set to launch a digital transformation, but your budget is limited. You understand that APIs are a critical tool to digitize your company, yet you don’t know if you can afford to implement them.

Over the past several years, “digital transformation” has become something of a buzzword – so much so, people don’t quite understand what it means or how it's relevant to them. However, digital transformation is critical to stay competitive, relevant, and agile in today’s business environment. APIs represent an essential tool for digital transformation.

The Challenge

This maker of building products for commercial and residential customers has been a Fortune 500 company for 65 consecutive years—and a Remedi client since 1996. During that time, the client has relied on consultants from Columbus, Ohio-based Remedi to manage, monitor, and maintain an EDI environment built on the IBM® Sterling Gentran: Server for Unix platform.

Take a moment to imagine this scenario: what if patients, clinicians, payers, researchers, and other stakeholders in the healthcare system were able to view comprehensive healthcare information? What if we pulled disparate healthcare information together in a single place, and what if that single-pane-of-glass view was simple to achieve?

Healthcare interoperability remains a significant obstacle to providing healthcare providers, payers, and patients easy access to electronic healthcare records. However, the US government is trying to encourage greater healthcare interoperability through healthcare integration.