Security, Scale, and Speed for Healthcare Big Data
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- ICA’s CareAlign Exchange*
- CareAlign*
- Intel® Xeon® processor E5
- Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI)
- Microsoft BitLocker*
Tech Stack
- NoSQL database
- Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop*
- Hadoop Distributed File System* (HDFS*)
- MarkLogic
- Intel® Solid-State Drives
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
- Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Cybersecurity
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) is a leader in the push to make HIEs a practical and powerful reality. ICA has deep clinical roots at Vanderbilt Medical Center, and its CareAlign* suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS) health IT tools and CareAlign Exchange* HIE combine ease of use with advanced capabilities for physicians, hospitals, health agencies, and other healthcare stakeholders. CareAlign Exchange aggregates data from diverse EHRs within a medical community, converts the data to actionable information, and makes it securely available to authorized participants of the community.
The Challenge
In a world of shrinking budgets and rising rates of chronic disease, health information exchanges (HIEs) are an essential element of national and regional efforts to improve healthcare and contain costs. HIEs establish an interoperable framework for healthcare providers to share secure patient information across disparate electronic health record (EHR) platforms and other information systems. However, the challenge lies in creating a flexible, reliable, and scalable analytics platform that could ingest large volumes of diverse data types and provide high performance for batch and interactive processing. Since healthcare providers face steep penalties if they fail to secure protected health information (PHI), the solution also required a robust security architecture that could keep pace with interactive performance requirements as deployments grew.
The Solution
ICA designed a stateless implementation, reducing the risk of data theft but requiring that every service call go through security negotiations. ICA uses Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) to accelerate full disk encryption and session encryption, helping ICA and its customers avoid traditional performance penalties and allowing encryption to scale affordably as the solution grows. Intel AES-NI is one of a variety of solutions that embed key security functionality in the hardware of select Intel processors and chipsets. Innovations such as Intel AES-NI enable more vulnerability-resistant platforms and, in ICA's use of Intel AES-NI, help improve the experience for clinical end users. As an enterprise NoSQL database, MarkLogic gives ICA and its users flexibility and scale to process varied data types in large volumes at near real-time speeds. MarkLogic is highly parallel, and designed to scale horizontally across industry-standard server platforms.
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