Data Analytics to Monitor Health Care Assets and Patients

Challenge

A Health Care Institution in Chicago has an IoT App to monitor patients and assets in hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities. They were seeking an Analytics Solution to capture and analyze the data from multiple disparate devices and generate actionable insights. Some of the insights required included: number of patients in ICU and pathology type, x-ray service availability, and patient duration in each unit. 

Solution

Leveraging an agile approach first constructed using ClickView, a prototype dashboard was created to allow the client to quickly validate the key indicators (KI).  
In parallel, a technology assessment was conducted to select the required platforms to build a scalable solution for data ingestion, process transformation summarization analysis. 
This assessment work enabled our client with a solution tailored to their needs. 
As a result, a scalable solution was designed and built using Pentaho for data integration and Jaspersoft BI for big data business intelligence capabilities. 

Result

Real time information about assets and patients:  

  • Improved radiology and medical imaging utilization 
  • Increased operating room utilization rates 
  • Provide hospital location information to patient’s family  
  • Number of procedures done by physician/device (This information can be used by the clinic’s Mangers, Directors or Administrators)

Stack

Solutions: ClickView, Pentaho, Jasper soft BI 
IoT devices: Gateway:  BLE compatible, WiFi / Tracked asset: Generic Beacons
Protocols: WiFi, HTTPS REST, BLE (iBeacon)