Apixio, Dell collaborate to develop business intelligence applications for healthcare clients

Apixio Inc., the leading provider of Big Data analytic and clinical data integration for healthcare, and Dell are collaborating to offer solutions that enable healthcare systems to improve performance management and reporting.

“Apixio is excited to collaborate with Dell to rapidly develop business intelligence applications on Apixio's clinical knowledge exchange platform for their healthcare clients”

Apixio's platform for rapid development and deployment of analytic applications uses optical character recognition technology, machine learning and Hadoop-based high-scale computing to derive insights from diverse sources of clinical and administrative data, including textual and scanned documents. Dell plans to host Apixio's big data stack in its data center so that Dell's clients can reap the benefits with minimal change to their IT infrastructure and data governance.

"Apixio is excited to collaborate with Dell to rapidly develop business intelligence applications on Apixio's clinical knowledge exchange platform for their healthcare clients," said Shawn Dastmalchi, CEO of Apixio. "Analyzing the growing volume and variety of data, this collaboration will help healthcare organizations lower medical costs and improve outcomes."

"For Dell this is a logical next step in its continued push toward information-driven healthcare. Combined with Dell's extensive experience in healthcare IT services and solutions, this partnership enables Dell and Apixio to create unique big data and analytics solutions," Sid Nair, Vice President & Global General Manager Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences Services. "The joint analytic solutions can enable Dell's healthcare customers to monitor quality performance and manage readmissions more effectively by leveraging both structured and unstructured data."

More than 2,000 hospitals and 30,000 physicians worldwide rely on Dell for IT support, benefiting from Dell's full-service, end-to-end IT solutions. Dell works with healthcare organizations to affordably and effectively improve business processes; enhance access to and gain insights from their data; and meet complex healthcare regulations with data security solutions. Dell's approach to information-driven healthcare connects people to the right technologies and processes to transform the way healthcare is delivered.