World's Largest Healthcare Informatics Data Warehouse

In the United States, the independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans provide healthcare financing for almost one in three citizens. But accurate research data is critical to providing effective treatment, improving outcomes and helping reduce spiraling costs.

Challenge

Blue Cross and Blue Shield faced the challenge of creating the world's largest healthcare informatics data warehouse to enhance benchmarking capabilities and enable advanced predictive analytics.

Blue Health Intelligence

A CSC team designed, developed and implemented a system, dubbed Blue Health Intelligence, that would integrate data from up to 40 member companies. They built an overall architectural design incorporating "continuous certification," providing the most comprehensive source of accurate healthcare research data to be found anywhere.

Warehouse Is Key

The data warehouse is key to the Blue Health Intelligence's overall 10-year strategic plan. No other consortia-based analysis tool exists at this scale: The warehouse is capable of processing medical and other types of claims for 90 to 100 million people, while providing the client with huge competitive advantage. Recognized by both BHI and industry as a one-of-a-kind solution, the BHI data warehouse will lead to greater healthcare transparency by delivering unmatched detail about trends and best practices.

"We are working with other CSC teams on how to leverage this solution in other industries," says the CSC team. "This is one of the largest data warehouses that we've developed at CSC, and we can use the same patterns and similar architecture on projects across other industries."

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