SAP HANA platform for healthcare
Healthcare organizations generate massive amounts of data about patients, treatments, medications, costs, and claims. Best-run healthcare providers put their Big Data, including genomics and lifestyle data, to work for them by using in-memory computing technology to drive new value.
Project “Medical Insights”
Scope
- Provide and connect relevant content from structured and unstructured clinical data
- Gain fast and complete access to relevant content and practices
- Validate analytical results through qualitative exploration of underlying sources
- Deliver clinical data for linkage with gene-expression data
- Build up an organizational memory
- Deliver information on possible patient cohorts
- Visualize findings from different data sources
- Create and share summaries of findings
Key benefits
- Reduce costs through time savings in data research; leverage existing content, avoiding multiple purchases; and create content through insight into existing assets
- Increase the quality of expert processes in an organization by capturing expert know-how in semantic layers and making it persistent, explicit, and available for reuse
Project “Genome Analysis”
Scope
- Real-time analyses of large-scale genomic data
- One application to perform all processing and analyses steps
- Flexibility in choosing any algorithm for processing of genome data (alignment and variant calling)
- Alignment algorithms from SAP
- Means to manually add annotations (metadata) to genomic data or link to external literature databases
Key benefits
- Fast analyses of large-scale, genome-variant data sets
- One system to take raw DNA reads (from any sequencing machine) through all processing steps and through analyses
- Flexibility in configuring the processing pipeline (alignment and variant calling) to transform raw DNA reads into variant data
