Amazon Healthlake is a HIPAA Compliant software service provided by Amazon to help make it easy to build and deploy HIPAA Compliant Data Solutions. The service provides many tools and services for easily extracting medical entities from unstructured data. This ability is augmented by the ability to create a population health dashboard within Healthlake, providing an easy to use UI where various analysis tools can be configured to showcase the data in a human readable format.
The tools used for processing the data and building the dashboard include AWS Glue, Athena, and QuickSight –
1. AWS Glue : It is a fully managed ETL ( Extract, Transform and Load ) service which makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize the data, clean it, enrich it, and move it reliably between various data stores.
2. Athena : Athena helps to analyze unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data stored in Amazon S3. It enables data analysts to perform interactive queries in the web-based cloud storage service. This is useful for research, log analysis and Online Analytical Processing.
3. QuickSight – It is a fully managed cloud-scale AWS Business Intelligence tool with an Easy-to-use interface for creating data analysis, data visualizations, and dashboards.
For building a population health dashboard with Quicksight, the foremost step is to obtain a datasource. Here, we can use Athena to create this datasource which in turn uses the structured data produced by Healthlake. Subsequently, we create a dataset in QuickSight from a table in Athena using SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) to store the data because this allows us to import the data only one time and use it multiple times.
Now that the dataset is created, we can produce a number of analytic components in the dashboard. These components allow us to aggregate the data and create charts and time-series visualizations at the patient and population levels. This dashboard is also enriched with filters to allow us to further drill on the results. Hence, the caregivers or the healthcare providers use this advanced dashboard to make informed decisions and improve patient care. Contact Us https://www.silstonegroup.com/