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There are several big data processing and data-centric security challenges in biomedicine and healthcare today, including:
- health insurance companies running promotional and fraud detection data warehouses which need fast integration, cleansing, reformatting, and analysis of claim data
- genomic data transformation and analytics
- pharmaceutical companies manipulating and reporting on sales, manufacturing, and supply chain data
- HIPAA-covered entities and business associates like marketers or processors of patient and prescription databases who need to find, de-ID, and audit Protected Health Information (PHI) to comply with the Safe Harbor security rule, and/or score the risk of re-identification to comply with the Expert Determination Method rule
- DBAs and developers requiring safe, intelligent test data
Learn more about these data preparation challenges specific to the healthcare industry in this podcast from Bloor Research:
IRI software applicable to data-driven use cases in the healthcare sector includes:
- IRI Voracity - to discover, integrate, govern (mask, risk-score, prototype, track), and analyze ePHI, leveraging all of the functions in these products which are also available standalone:
- IRI FACT (Fast Extract) - to rapidly unload Oracle, MS SQL, and other DBs, and run in Voracity ETL jobs
- IRI CoSort (SortCL program) - to optimize and combine transformation and reporting on flat and semi-structured data
- IRI FieldShield - to de-identify, risk-score and anonymize PHI/PII in RDBs and flat files
- IRI CellShield - to discover, then mask, encrypt, and pseudonymize (and audit) PHI in Excel® spreadsheets
- IRI DarkShield - to discover, deliver, delete and mask 'hidden' PHI not only in structured sources, but also in semi-structured and unstructured text, HL7, X12, FHIR, DICOM, document, and NoSQL sources
- IRI RowGen - to populate test DBsand files with production-quality synthetic data (without requiring real data) or masked DB subsets in tables and files, plus HL7, X12, FHIR, etc.
IRI also works with experts in healthcare analytics, like Scalable Healthcare, and teaches HIPAA SH/EDM compliance with statisticians and attorneys in courses like this. IRI also integrates and partners with leading test data management portals and database virtualization solutions.
You can learn more about the use of IRI Voracity platform solutions above in healthcare from this InContext report from Bloor Research.
IRI customers in this broad category include:
- Accenture
- AIM Health
- AmbryGenetics
- Aon Hewitt
- Appistry
- AveHealth
- Aventis
- Aviva
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- BUPA
- Cigna
- Codman Group
- Diaceutics
- Esai Pharmaceuticals
- Excelus
- General Dynamics (ViPS)
- Geisinger Health
- Genome Institute of Singapore
- Health Alliance Plan
- Health Canada
- Health Now
- HighmarkHealth
- Lexis/Nexis (EDIWatch)
- Mayo Clinic
- McKesson
- MedicX
- Nevada Health
- NHS UK
- Northwell Health
- OpiAID
- Physicians Mutual
- Regence Group
- Sato Pharmaceuticals
- SegalHealth Benefits
- Singapore Ministry of Health
- Southern Nevada Health District
- Texas Tech Health Sciences
- United Healthcare
- Unlimited Care
- Wellpoint
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What healthcare challenges does IRI software address?
IRI software helps healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations solve challenges like fast integration and analysis of health insurance claims data, genomic data transformation, supply chain analytics, PHI discovery and de-identification, and the creation of safe test data for development and research environments.
2. How can IRI solutions support HIPAA compliance?
IRI FieldShield, CellShield, and DarkShield can find and de-identify Protected Health Information (PHI) to comply with the HIPAA Safe Harbor rule and score re-identification risks to meet Expert Determination Method requirements. They also serialize job scripts and flow diagrams, and generate multiple audit logs to prove compliance.
3. What types of healthcare data can IRI software process?
IRI solutions can process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, including HL7, X12, and FHIR EDI files, DICOM studies, NoSQL collections, Excel spreadsheets, free-text files, PDF and MS Office documents, image, audio and SQL files, and relational databases.
4. How does IRI Voracity benefit healthcare organizations?
IRI Voracity consolidates data discovery, integration, governance, and analytics in one platform. This allows healthcare providers and insurers to cleanse, mask, risk-score, and analyze electronic PHI (ePHI) faster and more cost-effectively.
5. Can IRI generate synthetic healthcare data for testing?
Yes. IRI RowGen creates production-quality, referentially correct synthetic test data for database, flat-file, and 2D report targets so that developers and DBAs can build, test, and validate systems without using sensitive patient information. RowGen-generated data can also be used to replace real values in semi-structured and unstructured test targets via IRI data masking tools using a pseudonymization rule!
6. How does IRI software support fraud detection and predictive analytics?
Through CoSort and Voracity, IRI enables single-pass transformations, joins, and aggregations to build faster data warehouses and analytics pipelines. This helps healthcare companies detect fraud, spot trends, and generate real-time reports. You can also combine DarkShield data discovery and Voracity to perform textual ETL on values in semi- and unstructured file data, too.
7. What tools are available for discovering PHI in hidden sources?
IRI DarkShield can scan structured databases, semi-structured EDI files, unstructured text, and even image files for PHI. It can then mask, delete, or extract that data as required for compliance or remediation. See the list of supported data sources here.
8. Can IRI solutions integrate with other healthcare IT systems?
Yes. IRI solutions integrate with database virtualization portals, third-party analytics platforms like KNIME, Splunk and Datadog, wrangle data for even more (e.g., BOBJ, Cognos, Microstrategy, Qlik, R, and Tableau), and test data management platforms and DevOps pipelines, plus other data classification and ETL tools, to facilitate a more seamless ecosystem for data processing and compliance.
9. What kinds of healthcare organizations use IRI software?
IRI is trusted by health insurers, hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, and government health agencies worldwide. Customers include Mayo Clinic, United Healthcare, Independence Health, NHS UK, Northwell Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield, McKesson, and the Singapore Ministry of Health.
