Modern tools, including AI, offer healthcare institutions new windows onto their data with the potential for real business changes. In our recent interview, we sat down with Paul Brockington, Vice President of Integrations at the ONCare Alliance, a consortium of independent oncology providers sharing their data for research and to improve their operations, and Sergio Wagner, Salient Health’s Chief Strategy Officer, to learn more about their efforts to leverage data to improve the care provided. ONCare Alliance has partnered with Salient Health to curate and interrogate their data in order to make it more actionable.
Both Brockington and Wagner stress the importance of applying AI and analytics to specific business problems, what Brockington calls “MBA 101.” Wagner says that he wouldn’t be interested in AI unless it can “make money, save money, or reduce risk.”
Wagner thinks that the technology is available today to extract the value that health care providers need, and that the old problems of interoperability and data movement are solved. The key issue is the financial incentive to share data.
Salient Health’s key asset, Wagner says, is their proprietary in-memory database, which they have integrated with an analytic engine to analyze billions of data points in real time. Salient’s platform is also trained on the specific nomenclature and nuances of its partners.
One partner Wagner mentioned is the Department of Health of the state of New York, which has stored every claim in the state since 2005. Now 35 agencies can query data in its totality.
Brockington’s alliance accepts EHR, billing, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data from alliance members, building up billions of rows of structured data along with unstructured data in the form of physician notes, patient observations, lab values, and NGS testing. Their members are concerned with quickly extracting key aspects of the patient journey, such as age range, stage of the cancer, and treatments, from both structured and unstructured data. They identify cohorts that they can track through their patient journeys.
Brockington says that it’s time to move beyond pre-canned data and dashboards and allow clinicians or administrators to run sophisticated interrogations of their data. Salient Health helps them run such queries instantaneously, not relying on IT staff to spend days coding queries.
Watch our interview to learn more about how ONCare Alliance and Salient Health have partnered together to turn data into action.
Learn more about Salient: https://salienthealth.com/
Learn more about ONCare Alliance: https://www.oncarealliance.com/
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