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CASE STUDY
Heal th care Techn ology Lea der,
EMIS , Empowers Clinicians an d
Research ers with Unprecedented
Data Analy tics Ser vices
EMIS’ new EMIS-X Analytics platform delivers secure, scalable,
and cost-effective analytics with Starburst Enterprise
EMIS is one of the largest suppliers of electronic health record software in the UK. The
company was founded more than 30 years ago, but its mission has remained the same -
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to develop the best possible technology to help healthcare professionals and ultimately,
improve patient health.
Today, EMIS serves 10,000 organizations across every major healthcare setting and We recognized that we can
securely stores millions of National Health Service (NHS) records. The challenge for
deliver greater value to our
EMIS — especially during the COVID-19 pandemic - had been finding the best way to make
healthcare data and analytics available to providers and research organisations, and customers by enabling them
to do so in a way that’s secure, cost-effective, high-performance, and scalable. EMIS with the latest technology to
selected Starburst Enterprise, the world’s fastest distributed SQL query engine, to
underpin its transformative analytics suite, EMIS-X Analytics.
carry out analytics at scale.
Richard Jarvis
Cost-Effective Delta Lake Storage Chief Analytics Officer, EMIS
EMIS supplies clinical software systems used on a daily basis by tens of thousands of
doctors and nurses — whether for standard patient appointments or in life-threatening
emergencies.
Healthcare providers, academics, research groups, and commissioners are looking
for ways to analyze the data generated during routine healthcare, in order to uncover
insights and trends. “We recognized that we can deliver greater value to our customers
by enabling them with the latest technology to carry out analytics at scale,” explains
Chief Analytics Officer, Richard Jarvis of EMIS.
Clinical data is continuously streamed into a cloud data lake, ensuring that it includes
the very latest information, including patient medications, allergies, symptoms and
more. “Patients change over time, so we need to regularly update the data we hold about
individuals and medical practices, and we need to do that efficiently, in a way that keeps
costs down both for us and for our customers,” Jarvis says. “We needed a technology
that allows us to do that, and that’s why we chose Delta Lake.”
EMIS Empowers Clinicians and Researchers with Unprecedented Data Analytics Services
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EMIS needed a secure, high-performance query engine to query the available data in Delta Lake.
Starburst’s Apache Ranger and native Delta Lake Reader provide a secure, high-performance query engine that enable the EMIS-X
Analytics platform to analyze data at scale, rather than just store it.
The reliability of Starburst Enterprise also allows EMIS to scale compute usage to meet the needs of its customers.
Analytics with EMIS-X
The EMIS-X Analytics suite includes a range of data exploration and visualisation tools. As an example, EMIS were able to produce an
online visualisation delineating the most common reported symptoms of COVID-19 that updated daily, as new self-reported patient data
streamed into its cloud data lake from a patient facing application. “Researchers could look and see at any given point in time what the
most common symptoms were,” Jarvis explains. “To get this kind of information in the past would have involved several weeks of copying
and analyzing data. With EMIS-X Analytics, powered by Starburst Enterprise, researchers get the information in almost real-time.”
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To get this kind of information in the past would have involved several weeks of
copying and analyzing data. With EMIS-X Analytics, powered by Starburst Enterprise,
researchers get the information in almost real-time.
Richard Jarvis
Chief Analytics Officer, EMIS
EMIS Empowers Clinicians and Researchers with Unprecedented Data Analytics Services
How Starburst Enterprise Benefits EMIS-X
Cost Savings Faster Time to Insight
EMIS wants to deliver the best service possible to Being able to pull that data into our current platform,
its customers, and part of that means keeping its with the appropriate information governance and data
costs down. “What Starburst and Delta Lake allow permissions, we can give our customers a view across
us to do, along with the work we’ve done ourselves, 100 or even all 4,000 EMIS GP practices,” Jarvis notes.
is keep our costs down without compromising
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performance,” Jarvis explains. “This is important
Some EMIS customers run very large queries, for
because we want to minimize the costs of this
example, looking at all patients to find symptoms that
infrastructure for our healthcare customers.”
indicate COVID risk might involve querying hundreds of
Joining Up Data billions of rows of data. These are complicated queries
Aided by Starburst technology, EMIS-X Analytics makes involving lots of data. EMIS receives valuable guidance
it possible to analyze both primary and secondary from the the experts at Starburst. “We get great support
care data simultaneously. “The correlation between from the Starburst team on questions like how to make a
the data from GPs and the data from hospitals could query run quicker,” Jarvis notes. “That’s important for us
be used to see trends and outcomes of the pandemic,” and our customers, because the quicker we can run our
Jarvis says. “By bringing that data together for our queries, the quicker a clinician can get to a new insight,
customers, often for the first time, we’re helping them and the quicker a patient can receive better care.”
discover new ways to improve patient outcomes.”
Better Outcomes, Better Quality of Life
EMIS envisions its customers using the platform to generate both clinical and operational insights. Different subject matter
experts could generate algorithms which search for patients with specific risk factors for certain health conditions and alert their
physicians. Practices could run analytics that optimize scheduling in order to minimize missed appointments — the sort of analytics
that simply weren’t available to physicians in the past.
Yet EMIS is also looking forward to seeing how their customers leverage this unprecedented access in unexpected ways. “The next
bit is the interesting part,” Jarvis says, “where instead of sending packets of data out to researchers for them to analyze, we can
bring their models to work inside our environment and provide insights directly back to the people who need them. If you can detect
something early and treat it, then you don’t have lots of repeat appointments or the need to resort to expensive drugs. You can give
people a better quality of life and better outcomes, while driving system efficiency and helping clinicians. So all of that centers back
to the core vision of this program, and our reason for partnering with Starburst — to help our customers get more out of their data.”
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