Overview

Introduction

In the current healthcare landscape, a myriad of applications on which clinicians rely often operate in silos. This fragmentation creates inefficiencies and increases the administrative burden on healthcare providers, ultimately leading to an increase in cost, reduction of quality patient care, and healthcare worker burnout.

HALO addresses these challenges with an innovative standardized technology framework, designed specifically to enhance interoperability among diverse clinical applications, ideally reducing cost, improving patient care, and decreasing healthcare worker burnout.

What is HALO?

HALO is a standardized technology framework that enables approved jurisdictional and vendor applications to seamlessly integrate into any authorized Point of care systems, such as EMRs, with the ability to coordinate their activities with SMART applications and other jurisdictional assets.

By extending the SMART on FHIR specification, HALO facilitates data exchange and coordination among various healthcare applications. This means that clinicians can leverage a wider array of tools without the headache of complex integrations or disruptions in workflow.

Key Benefits of HALO

1. Reduced Administrative Burden: Reduces click and administrative burden, by streamlining the mechanism in which clinical providers’ access digital health services, resulting in better workflows and potential time savings.

2. Enhanced Care Delivery: Improves access to jurisdictional assets and other digital health services, leading to better patient care.

3. Interoperability: HALO's architecture promotes interoperability as it is built on open standards such as SMART on FHIR. This enables healthcare teams to coordinate their activities more effectively, ensuring that patient information is readily available.

4. Scalability and Flexibility: As clinical applications continue to emerge, HALO can easily accommodate them without the need for extensive reconfiguration.

5. Privacy and Security: HALO is designed with privacy and security as core principles, offering guidance and recommendations to ensure secure data exchange, patient information protection, and compliance with healthcare regulations.

Value Propositions for HALO

Clinicians

• Reduces click and administrative burden, by streamlining the mechanism in which clinical providers' access digital health services, resulting in better workflows and potential time savings
• Improves clinical providers’ access to jurisdictional assets and other digital health services from within their EMR, enhancing care delivery
• Improved awareness of available jurisdictional services and vendor applications
• Access to a range of patient information and patient context across multiple applications/services.

Provinces, Territories and Indigenous Communities (PTIs)

• Increases adoption and use of jurisdictional digital health services and return on investment on jurisdictional repositories
• Increases capability to deploy additional or improve existing services to clinicians with little or no effort required from Point of Care (PoC) vendors
• Health systems may potentially see a reduction in duplication of services, saving time and money

Vendors

• Increase service offerings to clients with a small amount of effort (e.g., lightweight integration at a low cost)
• Reduces cost to integrate with jurisdictional assets and digital health services which are becoming table stakes for clinicians
• Enables smaller Point of Care (PoC) vendors to offer the same level of services as larger providers
• Expands access to comprehensive patient data through SMART Applications, minimizing development overhead and enabling vendors to integrate with interoperable healthcare systems more efficiently.

Conclusion

In today's complex healthcare landscape, where interoperability is essential for delivering high-quality, efficient care, HALO offers a transformative solution by breaking down silos and enabling seamless data exchange between clinical applications.

By reducing administrative burdens, streamlining workflows, and improving access to essential resources, HALO empowers healthcare providers to focus on what matters most: patient care. This ultimately leads to better patient outcomes and a more efficient healthcare system.

As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, HALO's standardized approach positions organizations to stay ahead of the curve and meet the challenges of the future. By adopting HALO, healthcare providers can unlock the full potential of digital health and drive positive change in the industry.