CipherHealth has recently embarked on a strategic partnership with SADA, a renowned business and technology consultancy and Google Cloud Partner. This collaboration is aimed at deploying Google Cloud’s Looker to amass socioeconomic data, a move that may potentially change how patient care is delivered. CipherHealth has long been at the forefront of providing healthcare providers with conversational and clinical data for each patient. By partnering with SADA, CipherHealth will enhance its platform capabilities by a great deal. This advancement allows for Self-Service Analytics within CipherHealth’s platform, furthering the ability of healthcare providers to utilize data for later analysis and visualization across the patient’s lifecycle.
The partnership between CipherHealth and SADA shows positive development in the use of data analytics in healthcare. CipherHealth’s customers, including around 500 hospitals nationwide, can now access social determinants of health (SDOH) patient data through Embedded Analytics. This capability includes important demographic data that can be used to segment patient populations for delivering accurate outreach messages. The granularity of this data enables healthcare providers to look into the individual patient level, discerning specific types of care and even accessibility requirements, including ease of appointment scheduling. The integration of this data into CipherHealth’s automated communications solutions allows customization of messages based on the available patient data, thereby enhancing the efficacy of care delivery.
The utilization of Google Cloud’s Looker in CipherHealth’s platform mainly enhances the ability of hospitals to access data such as race, ethnicity, gender, language, and age. This integration is big for improving patient care, as it enables healthcare providers to grasp and address the diverse needs of their patient populations more effectively. Nate Perry-Thistle, CTO at CipherHealth, has stated the transformative impact of this partnership in providing new insights into patient populations, enabling healthcare providers to enact care delivery changes that directly affect patient care. Repeating this sentiment, Tony Safoian, President & CEO at SADA, has also stressed the role of fast, intelligent, and secure patient data for healthcare providers, pointing towards a future where healthcare delivery is significantly enhanced by technological advancements.
Being HIPAA-compliant, CipherHealth ensures the secure analysis and transmission of protected health information (PHI) to its customers. This focus on data security is necessary for maintaining patient trust and adhering to regulatory requirements, particularly in an time where data breaches are increasingly common. The integration of SDOH data into CipherHealth’s analytics is both a technological improvement, and a commitment to ethical data use and privacy protection.
CipherHealth’s use of Google Cloud’s Looker aligns with trends in digital health innovation. LifePoint Health’s recent strategic partnership with Google Cloud is aimed at enhancing data interoperability, patient monitoring, and virtual care. Utilizing the platform, clinicians can gain insights into patient records and perform analytics in near-real time. LifePoint’s implementation of the HDE will also support data interoperability across the organization’s large, disparate EMR systems. Both LifePoint and Google Cloud are focused on ensuring data security and privacy. The HDE platform leverages secure infrastructure and data storage that supports HIPAA compliance, in conjunction with LifePoint’s privacy, access, and use protocols for data, to protect patient information.
