Gartner defines a trading platform as a computer system designed to perform financial market analysis, capture and process daily treasury transactions, evaluate the risks associated with those transactions, provide settlement and reporting functionality, and post transaction records to accounts and other financial records repositories. Trading platforms directly or indirectly facilitate the placement of orders for financial products with another financial entity or intermediary over a network. These financial offerings include products and asset classes such as equities, bonds/fixed income instruments, foreign exchange, money market/cash instruments, commodities and derivatives. The financial entities involved in the transactions include brokers, market makers/principals, investment banks, universal banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Trading platforms facilitate electronic/digital transactions that may be undertaken by trading firms from any location using available computer networking infrastructure.
U.S. healthcare payer care management workflow applications are enterprise software products that provide technology support for a broad set of processes within the medical management department. The primary payer care management workflow applications user is the payer-employed care manager (under titles such as nurse, care coordinator, health coach or health advocate). This person does the work of utilization management (UM), case management (CM), disease management (DM) or wellness program support. The work includes comparing requested services against standards of medical necessity; interacting with providers and their administrative staff; completing assessments with members during telephone engagements; establishing and documenting progress on care plans; and motivating member behavior change. The role of the care manager, however, is diversifying in today’s market. Care managers work in support of many different business and operating models, deploying widely differing expertise across different communication channels