This document discusses a case study of VHA implementing Hadoop and data virtualization technologies with Denodo and Hortonworks. It describes VHA's goals of moving to a modern data architecture by loading all types of data into a single data lake for flexible analysis. Challenges included training business users on new tools like Pig and Hive for accessing Hadoop. The solution involved utilizing data virtualization with Denodo to allow applications to access data without technical details, improving adoption.
12. VHA Inc. Confidential information.
Since 1977 – when 30 hospital CEOs established VHA as the nation’s first membership
organization for acute care providers – the company has applied knowledge in
analytics, contracting, consulting and network development to help members achieve
their strategic objectives.
VHA is based in Irving, Texas, and has 11 regional offices. Our unique family of companies
brings industry-leading innovation and expertise to help organizations thrive in a dynamic
health care environment:
A legacy of innovation
" As the first hospital membership organization, we were born of innovation.
" We introduced the concept of supply networks, drawing on the power of collaboration to
achieve greater cost savings for health organizations.
" We pioneered comparative data analysis and exchange as well as the industry’s first
committed contracting program and private label program, all of which continue to deliver
exceptional value today.
Who is VHA?
In 2013, VHA
delivered
$2.2 billion in savings
and additional value
to members.
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At UHC, collaboration drives success.
For nearly 30 years, UHC has been a catalyzing force in:
" Supporting academic medical centers in their efforts
" Fostering new ideas
" Building solid relationships that withstand the test of time
Our members have been agents of progress—driving the advancement of patient care,
medical knowledge, and fiscal acuity by coming together to candidly discuss their ideas and
vision.
UHC continually expands and strengthens services to offer insights and solutions to
members.
As the leader in providing relevant comparative data and as a single-source provider of
information and insights that promote change, UHC has created UHC Intelligence™, a
versatile suite of business tools that power performance improvement.
Who is UHC?
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UHC offers
Transparency.
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UHC and VHA have a track record of partnering successfully
History of Collaboration
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1998 – Current
Novation was formed in 1998 and is a joint
venture between UHC and VHA.
1998 – 2011
A supply chain improvement company focused on
non-acute care market, Provista was formed in
1998 as a joint venture between UHC and VHA.
VHA acquired UHC’s minority interest in 2011.
2013 – Current
A subsidiary of Novation, aptitude is the health
care industry's first online direct contracting
marketplace.
UHC and VHA have formed the largest contracting services company
Since forming Novation in 1998, UHC and VHA have worked in partnership to grow Novation to the nation’s largest contracting services company, representing
more than $50 billion in purchasing volume and delivering more than
$1 billion in contract price savings for UHC and VHA members and other affiliate organizations over the past
five years.
We have continued to expand on this successful partnership. Our advanced shared analytic capabilities and innovative cost management tools have helped
purchasing through Novation to save an additional $1.4 billion, over the last
four years.
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UHC and VHA Have Complementary Strengths Which When Combined
Create Enhanced Member Value
A Powerful Network
The Nation’s Leading Academic
Medical Centers and Community
Health Care Providers
Foundation
Supply
Chain
Management
Advisory
Services
Comprehensive Data
and Analytics
Core Capabilities
Targeted Solutions
Customized Insights
NewCo
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Our new organization offers superior access to leading practices, networking and knowledge sharing for our
members, which includes the majority of this country’s preeminent academic medical centers and community-
based health systems.
The newly combined organization:
" Serves more than 5,200 health system members and affiliates.
" Provides services to nearly 30 percent of the nation’s hospitals, including virtually all the academic medical centers and
health systems.
" Serves more than 118,000 non-acute health care customers.
" Includes more than $50 billion in purchasing volume, the largest in the industry.
" Provides services to all of the top 10 hospitals on the US News and World Reports annual list of America’s Top
Hospitals.
" Delivers the industry’s most in-depth clinical data combined with the nation’s
most robust supply chain data to address cost and quality.
VHA and UHC Are Now the Largest Member-owned Health Care Company
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Move from silos to streamlined data processing….
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Logic
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Clinical Supply Academic
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ManagementAcquisition Delivery
Where we want to go…
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Data
Lake
BusinessAccessLayer
Data Warehouse
Discovery Zone
Systems of Record
Oracle
SQL
Other
Exadata
Data Access Layer
Applications
Reports
Dashboards
DM
Queries
EDI
Future Capabilities
Data Gateway
LandingZone
HCO
XYZ
Data Aggregators
Raw Data Useful Information
Data Owners, Technical Support Data Stewards, Data SME/Scientist,
Analyst, Advisors
Advisors, Analysts, Members,
Collaboratives
DM
DM
Data Owners, Technical Support
Data Stewards, Data SME’s, Data Scientists, Analyst,
Advisors, Data QA
Advisors, Analysts, Members,
Collaboratives
Discovery Zone
Posts
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ManagementAcquisition Delivery
Where we want to go…
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Data
Lake
BusinessAccessLayer
Data Warehouse
Discovery Zone
Systems of Record
Oracle
SQL
Other
Exadata
Data Access Layer
Applications
Reports
Dashboards
DM
Queries
EDI
Future Capabilities
Data Gateway
LandingZone
HCO
XYZ
Data Aggregators
Raw Data Useful Information
Data Owners, Technical Support Data Stewards, Data SME/Scientist,
Analyst, Advisors
Advisors, Analysts, Members,
Collaboratives
DM
DM
Data Owners, Technical Support
Data Stewards, Data SME’s, Data Scientists, Analyst,
Advisors, Data QA
Advisors, Analysts, Members,
Collaboratives
Discovery Zone
Posts
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Built on Hadoop
" Hortonworks is the distribution
Business Need
" Move to a modern data architecture
– Disparate data sources into a single data lake
– Flexibility of schema on read (not write)
– Ease of doing analysis on subsets of large data sets
– Capture all types of data (even data that might only have a future purpose)
– Lower cost to store large amounts of data
Data Lake
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Data
Lake
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Area to discover value from data
Access roles:
" Data scientists and SMEs
" Product Managers
" Analysts
" Data Stewards
Challenge
" Business users have been trained to use SQL or CSV exports
" Introduction of Hadoop will require training on PIG and HIVE for access
" Possibility of slowing down adoption and deriving value from new solution
Data Discovery
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Discovery Zone
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Utilize data virtualization
" “Data virtualization is an umbrella term used to describe any approach to data management that allows an
application to retrieve and manipulate data without requiring technical details about the data, such as how
it is formatted or where it is physically located” – Margaret Rouse, TechTarget.com
Our solution…
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Data
Lake
Discovery Zone
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Proven platform
" Denodo is our DV platform
Successes in our company
" Salesforce reporting environment (cloud based plug-in)
" Physician dashboard (disparate data sources)
Data Virtualization
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Discovery Zone
" Utilize Denodo HDFS, HBase and Map Reduce custom wrappers
" Abstract data from lake
– Protects data source asset
– Enhanced security
" Simplified access for data discovery users
– Can use SQL to query
" Easy to augment discovery process
– Can pull in other sources of data to DV view (Excel, PDF, Websites)
Data Virtualization for Discovery Zone
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Discovery zone
presentation layer
Virtual data views
Data Lake
Systems of record
Architecture
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Data Lake approach on Hadoop
" Simplifies data management
" reduces data costs
" Scalable
" Flexibility
Data Virtualization
" Simplified data access
" Less training for business users
" Faster data discovery
" Augmented discovery process (adding new sources)
Recommendation and Benefits
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