Visualization Solutions for Leading Healthcare Data Analytics Provider
A global leader in leveraging data, technology, and advanced analytics to transform patient outcomes in the healthcare sector, this services provider is the largest healthcare Data Science company based in the US and has a presence in more than 100 countries. The NYSE listed company helps the healthcare information technology and clinical research industries optimize data and visualization at scale for identifying disease patterns, arriving at the correct treatment path, and gaining a better understanding of diseases and patient behaviour.
01. Facilitating Smooth Healthcare Collaboration with Data Analytics
02. The Need
- Hospitals and clinics required real time visibility on multiple factors like bed availability, occupancy, interval of time spent with each patient during doctor visits and more.
- Government bodies needed quick information on facilities available, specializations, bed vacancies, consumer patterns, behaviour, status etc.
- Consumers needed access to their medical records, information on their condition, suggested treatment, measures for wellbeing and so on.
- They had huge volumes and varied data pouring in from different geographies
- Fast, and in certain cases, real time analysis of data was critical for enabling timely response
- Powerful visualization and user-friendly analytics was a compulsive need to ensure high availability
- They had to ensure data security and scalability as they were handling sensitive healthcare data like patient information
To facilitate a single platform, they first needed to create a Data Lake to consolidate and structure the huge volume of varied data and to process it in such a way that it could be leveraged for real time analytics for varied needs.
02. Building the Data & Visualization Solution
Umbrella worked with the large Health Analytics firm’s tech leaders including infrastructure and practice heads from the Middle East, South Africa and South East Asia to understand their requirements. We began by considering the challenge of the huge data volume, fixing on a solution for collecting, cleansing and storing the data in a single repository in a format that was visualization ready. Umbrella’s team setup a Data Lake and Data Warehouse which help handle redundancy, multiple data formats and both structured and semi structured data. We used Power BI for enabling advanced visualization and dashboards. We deployed code and software on servers without the involvement of an on-premise setup.
02. Technology used
- Cloud Era - Main cluster management software to create an environment to set up a data lake
- Apache NiFi - ETL tool to extract and transform data
- Power BI - Visualization of data using power BI dashboards
- Logging and monitoring, Identity and Access Management and Alerts and Notifications for enhanced security
- Amazon Redshift for high availability, vast scaling, and predictable performance
02. Data Lake Architecture
A Single Solution for Multiple Needs
- An affordable version of the premium player’s Analytics systems enabling wider market reach
- Improved healthcare resource allocation and personalized care based on real time analytics
- Monitoring of user data in real time to ensure proper and timely intervention
- Highly scalable, faster, and reliable platform for all three types of users 360º view of patient lifecycle for hospitals, clinics, and government bodies
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