Red Hat's intelligent Data-as-a-Service solution for healthcare

Industry overview 

For healthcare organizations (HCOs), regulatory programs, such as value-based payment models, population health programs, and precision medicine, add a new level of complexity. These initiatives require effective communication and data access from multiple sources, including smart devices and electronic health record systems. Seamlessly storing, integrating, and managing healthcare data is another challenge. Red Hat’s enterprise open source solutions for healthcare support these complex challenges and transformational initiatives.

Modern data management

To address these data management requirements, HCOs need an architecture that can process data from various sources and route information to a wide variety of new destinations. This modern architecture must also reconcile disparate operational data across the enterprise into a new, agile information resource. Data-as-a-Service can help.

Data-as-a-Service treats data as a product with its own life cycle. It provides data on demand to the user, regardless of geographic or organizational separation from the provider.  Access to the data is controlled and improved through data services, which requires a single point for updates. This approach helps organizations move quickly since extensive knowledge of the underlying data is not required. Data providers can then build the base with data experts and outsource the presentation layer for cost efficiency.

Red Hat’s Intelligent Data-as-a-service (IDAAS) solution for healthcare

Red Hat’s Intelligent Data-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solution provides inbound connectors, message consumption, a business rules engine, an action engine, federated access to data sources, caching, and outbound connectors. Red Hat’s IDaaS emerged from a large community of experts who are passionate about solving 21st-century healthcare problems and making them less costly.

Red Hat’s IDaaS is useful in a number of healthcare scenarios:

• Identifying patients for integrated-care programs
• Creating a patient finder to identify patients with potential diseases
• Evaluating drug efficacy based on real-world data
• Reporting misuse of drugs
• Integrating personal health records
• Benchmarking for risk-adjusted hospital productivity
• Stratifying risk

Red Hat’s IDaaS architecture features products from the Red Hat^® Middleware suite to provide a low-cost, lightweight infrastructure. This architecture includes:

• Red Hat Data Grid, Red Hat’s in-memory data grid solution,  elastically scales applications by providing fast and reliable access to frequently used data.
• Red Hat Fuse, a lightweight Apache Camel-based integration engine, reduces the pain of connecting applications, services, processes, and devices for comprehensive, efficient solutions for formats including Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and Health Level 7 (HL7).
• Red Hat Decision Manager, a business rules management system, combines business rules and complex event processing technologies from the Drools community project into a single integrated product.
• Red Hat Process Automation Manager is a business process management platform for developing, deploying, and managing process-driven business applications.
• Red Hat JBoss AMQ is a standards-based, reliable, open source messaging platform that allows real-time communication among applications, services, and devices.

Red Hat’s open source development model is a fast, highly innovative, cost-efficient approach to making software that is well-suited to the critical IT demands of the healthcare industry. Learn more at red.ht/health.