Regional multi-site healthcare network · South India
Enterprise care coordination platform
Representative product engineering programs delivered by Zestlan. Client names withheld where confidentiality agreements require. Metrics reflect documented outcomes from production deployments.
Context
A multi-site healthcare network needed one operational layer for referrals, scheduling, and care pathway visibility — without replacing existing clinical systems on day one.
Staff across three hospital sites coordinated patient movement through informal channels. Leadership lacked a single view of bottlenecks, pending referrals, or site capacity.
Challenge
Clinical and administrative teams relied on phone calls, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems to coordinate care across sites.
Solution
A secure platform unifying scheduling, care pathways, provider messaging, and operational dashboards with role-based access.
Constraints
- Role-based access aligned to clinical and administrative responsibilities — not a single shared login model
- Audit logging for patient-related actions and configuration changes
- Phased rollout per site with parallel operation alongside existing tools during transition
- Integration with existing scheduling and record systems via governed APIs — not a rip-and-replace mandate
Architecture
Event-driven coordination layer sitting above site systems — unified workflows, messaging, and dashboards without forcing immediate EHR replacement.
Care pathway orchestration
State machine–driven referral and intake workflows with explicit handoff points between clinical and admin roles.
Provider messaging & notifications
In-app messaging tied to case context with delivery audit and escalation rules.
Operational dashboards
Site-level and network-level views of queue depth, referral aging, and pathway exceptions.
Integration gateway
API layer normalizing data from legacy scheduling tools into a shared case model.
Identity & access control
RBAC mapped to organizational roles with session management and action-level audit trails.
Technology stack
Delivery approach
Mapped referral pathways, role matrix, and integration touchpoints across three pilot sites.
Defined case model, RBAC matrix, audit requirements, and phased cutover per site.
Referral intake, messaging, and site dashboards for first hospital.
UAT with clinical and admin staff; training and runbooks before site two.
Sites two and three onboarded with configuration templates — not custom rebuilds.
Measured outcomes
- 42% reduction in manual coordination steps across intake and referral workflows
- 18-day average improvement in cross-site referral turnaround time
- 3 hospital sites onboarded in the first delivery phase
Engineering lessons
- Workflow clarity mattered more than feature count — mapping handoffs before UI design prevented adoption friction.
- Parallel operation during cutover reduced risk; sites kept legacy tools until pathway volume proved stable.
- Audit-ready action logs were a procurement requirement — designing them into the domain model early avoided retrofit pain.
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