Client Impact Story

Banner Health Partners With MST Solutions For Architectural Guidance To Digital Transformation

Improving Cross-Organization Minded Architectural Practice

Overview

Banner Health is one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the United States and provides a wide variety of services with clinical settings in six states. Headquartered in Phoenix Arizona, Banner Health is dedicated to making healthcare easier and life better. The demand for a patient-focused experience is driving the healthcare industry to transform their technology ecosystems. This transformation, however, has not been easy and faces broad, systemic challenges. Regulations, technology and culture all play a role in complexity, adding to the IT challenge mix. Facing these challenges, Banner Health partnered with MST Solutions, to implement new processes, upskill teams, and employ techniques to give Banner Health a jumpstart on a healthy and cross-organization minded architectural.

CHALLENGE

Healthcare systems, most notably Electronic Health Record systems, target internal staff and clinicians but do not adequately serve consumers. The modern consumer has evolved rapidly and is demanding product designs and capabilities that put their Healthcare experience on par with their Amazon experience. To meet these demands, new levels of integration (and thus collaboration across teams and organizations) are required.

Healthcare systems, most notably Electronic Health Record systems, target internal staff and clinicians but do not adequately serve consumers. The modern consumer has evolved rapidly and is demanding product designs and capabilities that put their Healthcare experience on par with their Amazon experience. To meet these demands, new levels of integration (and thus collaboration across teams and organizations) are required.

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SOLUTION

MST Solutions proposed new processes that would enable governance and create insight across the organization. Over an intensive yearlong engagement, MST Solutions worked rapidly to identify solutions to meet new standards of patient expectations and yield tangible organizational growth for Banner Health.

“MST has helped foster an environment that creates cross functional dialogue and feedback on IT solutions well in advance of their implementation. This has proven to be highly valuable in ensuring we land on the right designs for our digital transformation. In turn, we have avoided tremendous amounts of re-work, all while ensuring we meet the high bar required by today’s Information Security standards.”
Bryce Carder
VP IT Business Services Banner Health

Key Outcomes

  • Instantiation of Solution Architecture Council (SAC) for governance and collaboration
  • New templates and standards for architectural artifacts
  • Upskilled solution architects anchoring a new standard

Results

The new processes helped to align varying disciplines to a broader organization vision. Additionally, this has led to higher trust, better designs and higher reuse of existing systems.

  • Established a process for solutions governance
  • Formalized architectural communication and collaboration across organizational boundaries
  • Standardized architectural artifacts

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