Data Platform To Accelerate Healthcare Insights Generation

Healthcare Industry is abundant with data, yet poor in insights. Gaps are primary due to highly unstructured data prevalent in medical notes, clinical records, lab results etc. This challenge is compounded with lack of integration of data sources; data that is required for effective medical outcomes is spread across 4 large islands viz., EMRs, Health Administrators, Personal Health Records (including wearables, lifestyle data, implanted medical devices) and Public Health data. Integrating such disparate sources, structures and making meaningful use of healthcare data continues to be time consuming and costly. The Industry cannot afford longer timelines and excessive costs in the form of multiple proprietary environments to integrate such datasets. Emergence of data platforms on the cloud are expected to address these challenges. This paper discusses the need for a Healthcare Data Platform to accelerate insights generation and presents a patented cloud health data platform solution that accelerates insights generation. This paper discusses in detail the Architecture and Design principles, technical details and benefits and value from implementation experiences, besides outlining future directions.