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Customer Overview
Geospatial Analytics is being widely employed by Healthcare organizations around the world to analyze patient distribution and help policy makers allocate resources to effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. A leading Healthcare system in US, was also looking at producing actionable intelligence for actively responding to the pandemic. The need was for a HIPAA-compliant Geospatial Analytics portal for processing PHI and PII data safely & securely in compliance with industry regulations.
About the Customer
The customer is the largest public health care system in the United States. They deliver essential inpatient, outpatient, and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city’s five boroughs.
Mapping the Curve
The customer wanted a Geocoding and Geospatial analytics platform for insights on patient spread (including COVID-19 and other health conditions) in their service areas. The platform demanded HIPAA-compliance, scalability and flexibility to curtail the outbreak.
Geospatial Analytics Portal on HIPAA-Compliant Cloud
Customer partnered with CyberTech to make this vision a reality. CyberTech setup the Esri platform, powered by HIPAA compliant cloud. CyberTech also empowered healthcare officials to securely Geo-enable patient data and clinical resources through CyberTech’s cloud-based HIPAA-compliant Geocoder.
Today, the portal is used to perform spatial analysis on geo-enabled data to develop a better understanding of a number of clinical, strategic and operational activities. CyberTech manages and monitors the cloud hosted environment leveraging DevSecOps approach. Its end-to-end managed cloud services, 7×24 monitoring and proactive incident response enables ‘Anytime, Anywhere’ access to healthcare personnel and helps maintain a high degree of agility while responding to the pandemic
Health Apps for Acquiring COVID-19 Response Intelligence
The customer now securely runs industry proven geospatial analytics uses-cases configured by CyberTech, on healthcare data including PHI/PII for efficient healthcare planning. Few strategic use-case scenarios for providing proactive COVID-19 care to patients, include:
- COVID-19 spread assessment
- Enabling ‘Community Engagement Specialists’ plan their travel day for attending patients who have tested positive
- Formulating a strategy for ‘COVID-19 Testing’ in schools
- Contact tracing leveraging patient demographics and social determinants
- Health conditions distribution & concentration
- Hot spot and intervention analysis
The Future
- To further increase the spread of Geospatial Intelligence across the organization, the customer plans to expand the platform to:
- Leverage data from Enterprise health systems such as Epic, Cerner etc.
- Develop targeted healthcare maps from a variety of sources
- Understand correlation between clinical data and external factors
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