Leverage Big Data To Solve Healthcare Challenges
By Christine Kern, contributing writer
Partnership creates The Partners Data Lake to support research initiatives and enable collaboration.
Partners Healthcare and EMC Corporation have announced a collaboration designed to improve the delivery of healthcare and patient experience through The Partners Data Lake, according to a press release. The objective of the Data Lake is to “speed clinically relevant research developed across the Partners HealthCare system into the clinical setting.”
Information gleaned from The Partners Data Lake will also be utilized to make research more efficient, improve the diagnosis and treatment of disease, and to improve the cost effectiveness of healthcare.
Big Data and collaboration are quickly becoming the new trend in healthcare research and delivery. According to Healthcare Informatics, The Partners Data Lake will utilize products from across the EMC Federation of strategically aligned businesses and will support research and clinical activities across the Partners system that includes the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network, and their community hospitals.
David Dimond the CTO of Global Healthcare, EMC Corporation, explained in the press release, “We believe the EMC Federation will help Partners lead the way in healthcare research and collaboration. Our strength in information technology and data science will enable Partners’ vision of bringing innovative solutions to healthcare providers and patients. Information technology is being transformed by the powerful trends of mobile, cloud computing, Big Data and social networking. The goal is to develop a new healthcare platform that will accelerate research utilizing the growing volumes of medical data.”
Healthcare IT News reported Shawn Murphy, MD, Partners' corporate director of research IS and computing, said maximizing the health system's broad research and clinical development efforts, from basic research to advanced cancer genomics studies , requires better collaboration through technology.
“Realizing the vision of big science that is delivered from our extensive research and clinical development efforts, from basic research to cancer genomics, requires new technology collaboration,” Murphy said. “The Partners Data Lake offers us the chance to lead the world in novel treatments and diagnostics. Partners HealthCare is in a unique position to combine the use of technology and research to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare to benefit patients. Our ability to lead innovation will be greatly enhanced though our collaboration with EMC by having valuable data available for our researchers to perform analysis and develop applications more dynamically than ever before.”