At the February 17 IS & RESO Open Forum, B.J. Moore, EVP/CIO, shared exciting recent developments around Truveta, the health data platform that Providence IS helped design, which is now transitioning into a data sharing consortium including 13 other major health systems.
We wanted to follow up a bit with more about how IS was involved in the development of this platform before it “went big” and became known as Truveta.
Chief Data Officer and GVP of IS Healthcare Intelligence (HI) shared some perspective on the journey to this point.
“The concept of building a data consortium, designed and run by leading healthcare systems, to solve the biggest healthcare problems is one that my CDO peers and I have been discussing for the past several years. To have Providence be an instrumental charter member in bringing this concept to fruition as Truveta is a testament to the visionary leadership of our organization and our commitment to Health for a Better World. I could not be more excited to have HI serve as a key pillar supporting Providence in this journey,” Brett shares.
IS Groundwork for Truveta
HI has been involved with the data and platform that evolved into Truveta for years. Going back to early 2019, it has played pivotal roles on committees for related topics like data architecture, acquisition, and security.
One of the first Truveta initiatives in 2020 was a COVID-19 data integration effort with Providence and two other health systems. HI and TEO Cloud Engineering collaborated with Microsoft to create the Azure infrastructure hosting this initiative. This work evolved into the DetectionMap and is the baseline architecture Truveta uses to ingest data from healthcare information systems.
Today, HI contributes directly to Truveta using the Research Data Platform (ReDaP) to extract and prepare Providence data for them. Truveta engineers and our caregivers collaborate to analyze our datasets stored in Epic Clarity and the Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW).
Ensuring security and terms of engagement
One benefit of Providence leading the way in this data consortium is that it shares health data among health systems only, versus some of the other data platforms driven by purely tech, non-healthcare companies.
A main concern with sharing healthcare data is preserving patient privacy to comply with HIPAA. HI’s data scientists are working with Providence Legal, Truveta engineers, and John Snow Labs to create a robust data de-identification solution within ReDaP for the patient data transmission to Truveta.
HI and Providence Legal partnered to craft and negotiate the language of the service order that defines the expectations and terms of engagement. This text was the basis for the other systems involved.
For more info
See the Providence system communications regarding the Truveta agreement
“Providence, 13 other health care systems back data platform Truveta” (Puget Sound Business Journal)
“Creating Truveta to Save Lives with Data” (truveta.com)