Data Architecture Modernization Boosts Hospital Foundation’s Efficiencies, Collaboration

This hospital foundation recognized the need for a strategic shift in its data architecture to support growing customer needs. Their once cutting-edge on-prem data warehouse, responsible for collecting and analyzing patient claim data, was now outdated and difficult to maintain. It forced workarounds and patchwork solutions that threatened their ability to serve more than 110 area hospitals in pursuit of the mission of improving health care quality and transitions of care across the region. 

• Hospitals needed faster, more frequent access to quality metrics and de-identified claims data from across the state. 
• Rich, de-identified data could drive research and improve patient outcomes, yet wasn’t available in a secure platform easily accessible to member hospitals. 
• The foundation needed stabilized data warehousing processes that ensured data quality with on-time data releases. 
• Safeguarding data security and replication was essential to preserving business continuity while meeting National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security requirements for the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). 

The foundation needed more than a technical upgrade. They needed to improve how healthcare data could be shared and utilized across the region.