Sisqualis
Empowering Healthcare Providers with Interoperability

In Gabriel García Márquez’s biography, A Life, Márquez says, “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

Yet, information surrounding one of these lives-- private--is often shared with clinicians and healthcare practitioners to improve the quality of treatments. However, with medical data stored in siloed databases and incompatible systems with minimal scope to interchange, analyze, and interpret the information, care providers frequently face several hurdles when accessing these fragmented databases.

With the increasing need to provide modern customers with readily accessible medical data, many healthcare organizations are developing health information exchanges (HIEs), specialized networks that rely on interoperable systems to share electronic health information seamlessly.

Identifying this need, Sisqualis, a Brazilian company, emerged with its best-in-class interoperability solution for the Brazilian healthcare system. As pioneers in interoperability solutions, Sisqualis charted out their initial phase of healthcare data collation associated with the Ministry of Health. They crafted an interoperability suite that encompasses an enterprise service bus (ESB), tailored connectors for the primary electronic health records, consent, and terminology services. In addition, the company’s extensive and well connected network of key healthcare providers in Latin America aids in collecting data and creating a comprehensive database across the region. “Our mission is to stitch together all the pieces of information from distributed channels, and to interpret and provide useful insights thereby generating further value for healthcare services,” Guilherme Sander, CEO of Sisqualis, mentions.

The firm realizing the need for business intelligence applications in consolidating medical data, created a complete cloud-connected clinical and population data management portal, Fusion — a repository for clinical data integration, alerts, consolidation, and analysis.

With the integration of medical and clinical data, Fusion eliminates the need for patients to carry laboratory tests, imaging tests, medical prescriptions, and certificates to each appointment. It also decreases hospital admission and readmission rates and unnecessary patient examination. Sisqualis’s Fusion epitomizes value-based care where clinical data standardization and integration with operations management enhance quality and reduce cost. Providing access to all relevant patient health information in a centralized system, Sisqualis helps the doctors avoid medical errors while diagnosing a patient and facilitate pharmacies to reduce medication costs. Together with Fusion, the company’s other two spin-offs include automating revenue cycles of the hospital with authorizations control statements and establishing a transparent cycle of pre and post-encounter communication and data exchange between the patient and the provider.

The arena of medical care is highly regulated, with privacy, security, and confidence concerns. However, Sisqualis successfully forged trusted relationships and delivered positive results to the clients, as per LGPD (Brazilian General Data Protection Law). In addition, Sisqualis’ Fusion provides maximum digital security by adopting all standards of ordinance 2073/2011 of the Ministry of Health, including HL7, IHE, and Dicom. Instead, Sisqualis’s interoperability suite provides the patients with the choice to share their clinical data.

As a harbinger of interoperability in Brazil, Sisqualis has successfully incorporated 700,000 patients inside Fusion in Brasilia, integrating primary, secondary, and tertiary care, apart from linking legacy systems’ information and delivering a longitudinal chart of the medical history of these patients.

Sisqualis, with a team of profound technical expertise and grit, is motivated to serve its clients with high-quality delivery in lesser time and budget. Considering information as the key to transforming the healthcare sector, Sisquallis aims to provide cost-effectiveness, quality, and patient satisfaction.