IBM Corp., an Armonk-based global technology and information company, received a one-year, $10 million contract from New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., to build an advanced analytics platform aimed at enhancing patient care and improving operational efficiency.
The IBM Enterprise Health Analytics platform will integrate and standardize data from eight HHC repositories and scale them down to one health care data model. The platform will standardize information about patients, providers, locations and reimbursement codes. IBM will also support HHC’s data warehouse and business intelligence structure, providing tools to help integrate legacy data into the new system.
Advanced data analytics are beneficial tools for helping patients make smarter health care decisions, said Michael O’Boyle, IBM’s New York managing director, in a written statement. The idea behind the contract is to provide technology to further reduce the risk of future complications that bring people back into the hospital.
