Gary Katz, senior account executive and solutions director at MarkLogic, said organizations looking to manage and generate value from complex health care data should implement a unified cloud-based platform that could enable them to transform, curate, master and secure data.
According to Katz, adopting this unified platform could help organizations eliminate the need for multiple tools such as data lakes and data quality tools to model, search or master the data.
He talked about a disease surveillance and coinfection detection project MarkLogic conducted with a state health agency and how the company helped address the data challenges associated with the project, such as handling large data volumes and merging different datasets.
Katz explained how the adoption of a unified platform enabled the agency and the company to ingest multiple data sources such as patient data and provider data, curate and master the data through correlation with specific patients.
“Sometimes people or organizations appear to be the same person, but you’re not sure because of discrepancies in the data,” Katz said. “Pulling that all together is mastering it.”
He discussed how the unified platform could help generate specific results by promoting integration and granularity while securing data at the data layer.
“Ultimately, it’s about speeding time-to-value in a secure way,” Katz said. “By taking the systems integration work out of the data integration task, healthcare organizations can get there more quickly.”
