by Angela Guess

A new press release reports, “CareFacets announced today the launch of CFAN™, a big data analytics platform designed for processing large volumes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured healthcare data that is transformed and analyzed using a variety of data management techniques and user configurable business rules. The platform is built to integrate diverse sets of healthcare data, including medical and pharmacy claims, self-reported data, device-captured biometric data, EMR data and other healthcare engagement data. CFAN can be easily integrated with other cloud applications in the IT infrastructure, allowing healthcare entities to easily manage, visualize and analyze massive data stores from numerous sources.”

The release goes on, “The platform addresses all aspects of big data management in healthcare, including: Data control, profiling and integration; Data contextualization using healthcare industry domain models; Parametrized and configurable rules and operators; Data transformation and interpretation using a variety of techniques, such as statistical modeling, machine learning and graph processing; Business Intelligence and data visualization. Healthcare data domains include member demographics, medical history and patient encounter history, as well as socio-economic, biometric and genetic profile data. The platform can also capture provider details, such as demographics, credentials, patient engagement history, prescribing patterns, geo-spatial information and provider affiliations. The power of the rule-authoring capability within CFAN provides added flexibility to customize and configure rules against which the data may be processed.”

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