Industry
Woman's Healthcare Provider
Technologies Used
Microsoft Power BI
SQL Server
Key Outcomes
Significant cost savings
Standardization of reporting architecture
VNB helped a woman's healthcare provider enhance clinical analytics and improve patient care by building a data warehouse for Meditech EMR data and creating powerful visualizations with Microsoft Power BI.
Customer Profile
The customer is a prominent healthcare insurance provider serving a vast population. With a rich history in the industry, they are committed to delivering comprehensive healthcare solutions and enhancing member experiences. The organization operates in a highly regulated environment, necessitating robust and compliant systems. Due to the sheer volume of transactions and complex nature of healthcare data, the customer handles a significant workload, demanding efficient and reliable IT operations.
Customer Situation
The customer handled 270/271 Healthcare Eligibility Benefit Inquiry transactions to verify patient healthcare eligibility, coverage, and benefits. The customer relied on custom API interfaces built on Microsoft BizTalk Server to connect with multiple insurance payers. This complex integration environment, characterized by high transaction volumes and frequent changes, was prone to instability. Updates to one payer’s interface often disrupted connections with others. To mitigate this risk, accelerate development and ease the build, deployment and testing process, the customer sought an automated solution that would enable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with robust automated testing.
Customer Profile
The customer is a healthcare provider with a mission to improve the health of women and infants, currently one of the largest in the United States. It is a private, non-profit organization that is consistently recognized for its innovative programs for women and infants and one of the largest delivery services in the U.S.
Customer Situation
The customer faced significant challenges with their legacy reporting solution, tied to the Meditech EMR system. This limited their ability to quickly adapt to changing reporting needs and hindered data-driven decision-making. They sought a modern data warehouse solution to consolidate data from multiple systems and enable advanced clinical analytics.
Additionally, the customer required a partner with deep expertise in both data warehousing and reporting along with offering healthcare consulting services. This partner would not only implement a robust solution within a tight timeframe but also transfer knowledge to their internal team, ensuring long-term success.
VNB Solution
After careful analysis and discovery sessions with the customer, VNB team selected a STAR schema as the foundation for the data warehouse. This decision streamlined the design process for facts and dimensions, enabling us to rapidly progress towards a solution.
We jointly determined the best approach to extract and transform labor and delivery module data, ensuring seamless integration into the data warehouse. The Power BI model was meticulously crafted to deliver actionable insights the customer's clinical analytics.
By prioritizing data volume, performance, scalability, usability, security, and collaboration, we designed a solution that aligns with industry best practices and ensured the long-term success of the customer's healthcare analytics initiatives.
Customer Benefits
Cost savings by eliminating older reporting solution & licensing
Standardization of report architecture and move to self-service BI mode
Ramping up of successful implementation due to experienced VNB engineers
In-house training for additional implementations for other modules
