Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, R&D

Big Data Transformation & Data Masking Solutions

Big Data Challenges in Healthcare

There are several big data processing and data-centric security challenges in biomedicine and healthcare today, including:

• health insurance companies running promotional and fraud detection data warehouses which need fast integration, cleansing, reformatting, and analysis of claim data
• genomic data transformation and analytics
• pharmaceutical companies manipulating and reporting on sales, manufacturing, and supply chain data
• HIPAA-covered entities and business associates like marketers or processors of patient and prescription databases who need to find, de-ID, and audit Protected Health Information (PHI) to comply with the Safe Harbor Rule, and/or score the risk of re-identification to comply with the Expert Determination Method rule
• DBAs and developers requiring safe, intelligent test data

The Voracity platform, and included subset products applicable to these use cases, are:

• IRI Voracity - to discover, integrate, govern (mask, risk-score, prototype, track), and analyze ePHI, leveraging all of the functions in these products which are also available standalone:
  
• IRI FACT (Fast Extract) - to rapidly unload Oracle, MS SQL, and other DBs, and run in Voracity ETL jobs
• IRI CoSort (SortCL program) - to optimize and combine transformation and reporting on flat and semi-structured data
  
• IRI FieldShield - to redact, encrypt, pseudonymize, and otherwise de-ID, risk-score and anonymize PHI/PII in RDBs and flat files
  
• IRI CellShield - to discover, then mask, encrypt, and pseudonymize (and audit) PHI in Excel® spreadsheets
• IRI DarkShield - to discover, deliver, delete and mask 'hidden' PHI in unstructured text, HL7/X12, DICOM, document, and NoSQL sources
  
• IRI RowGen - to populate test DBs and files with production-quality synthetic data (without requiring real data) or masked DB subsets
  

IRI also works with experts in healthcare analytics, like Scalable Healthcare, and teaches HIPAA SH/EDM compliance with statisticians and attorneys in courses like this. IRI also integrates and partners with leading test data management portals and databse virtualization solutions.