CHRISTUS Health: Putting Information to Work to Take Better Care of Patients

As businesses strive to advance digital transformation efforts, legacy architectures can be a significant obstacle to enabling the agility required to succeed in today's ever-changing data landscape. Many enterprises struggle with scaling the delivery of data and analytics to accommodate the growing array of data domains, users, and use cases. As a result, data mesh and data fabric architectures are on the rise with the aim of abstracting data management complexity, increasing data availability, and fostering greater collaboration.

Analytics have come a long way – from data warehousing and manual report building to centralised data in the cloud and machine learning driven analytics. Business Intelligence (BI) tools were revolutionary when they arrived: they made analytics more accessible to the wider business users. Their speedy and powerful analytics provided insights that businesses only dreamt off in the past. But as technology advances, so has the analytics world evolved.

Do you have your Enterprise’s data privacy under control? Do you know what datasets are sensitive and who has access? Many companies are behind on privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA, etc.). Legacy tools and manual processes are inaccurate and error prone and can force you to choose between delaying data access by months, or increased compliance risk.

Currently, the Cleveland Clinic Biorepository is an assembly of several biobanks together with the Lerner Research Institute. Excel spreadsheets track almost everything – and there are no universal LIS, SOPs, universal, centralized freezer monitoring, or means to electronically track patient tissue. The Cleveland Clinic is embarking on an enterprise-wide initiative to accelerate its biobanking capacity, leveraging its clinical volume and disease expertise. As part of this initiative, the Cleveland Clinic is partnering with Brooks Life Sciences to build a state of the art, 21,000 square-foot structure biobanking facility, set to open in the summer of 2019.