Notice ID: 36C10B21Q0053
“’Rockies’ is VA’s data and analytics platform that is built on cloud-native services to ease the burden of data access, integration, and organization while enabling a heterogenous ecosystem for data analytics in the VA. Rockies enables capabilities for managing data and knowledge, discovering new knowledge, using algorithms to make inferences on individuals or cohorts, and managing reports and inferences in workflows. Business and IT programs within VA can leverage Rockies platform to rapidly adapt shared capabilities to realize their mission use case, such as the Clinical Concept Library.”
“Additionally, Rockies will enable the utilization and sharing of data sets with proper data access guardrails to maximize knowledge re-use and improve quality and consistency. Rockies will allow VA to transition from outdated, expensive, custom, vertically integrated solutions to a best-practice approach of data integration and management based on an ecosystem of commercial platforms with custom integration, as required. This approach will allow the VA to focus on value-adding activities and foster an ecosystem of data analytics to accelerate time to insight and action by making data and advanced analytics more accessible and cheaper for analysts in the VA. VA plans to implement software solutions/tools from industry with Rockies to address a wide variety of use cases across the VA by incorporating VA and external data sources and supporting diverse analysis tools and approaches. The purpose of this RFI is to gather information on data curation/enrichment capabilities for Rockies…”
