“There are more than 17 million veterans in the United States, and approximately half rely on the Department of Veterans Affairs for their healthcare.”
“Successfully diagnosing, managing and treating such a massive number of patients is a tall order, yet a necessary one given the sacrifice made by the men and women of the American armed forces.”
“To improve its health data workflow and, by extension, patient care, the VA turned to the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to Summit, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer, and a wealth of expertise in computational and data science.”
“The VA’s health data system, known as the Corporate Data Warehouse, or CDW, is critical to monitoring patients’ progress. But it’s also immensely complex; imagine the massive amounts of data from 9 million patients as they seek and complete treatments for any number of issues that come and go over a lifetime.”
“To make sense of such a vast data resource, the ORNL team turned to process mining, which is the analysis of trends, patterns and details recorded by an information system. The team ultimately proved the technique could be used to make sense of immense databases such as the CDW…” Read the full press release here.
Source: ORNL, VA Collaboration Proves Value of Process Mining for Large, Complex Datasets – October 27, 2020. ORNL.
