Overview
Scientists and medical researchers rely on timely, accurate and complete data to make important decisions that improve our health and enhance our quality of life. Yet, today, vast amounts of healthcare data remain locked in proprietary clinical systems.
Unlocking clinical information and making it available and usable to the healthcare community will profoundly speed our rate of discovery and potential for curing disease, improving care and saving lives.
With a mission to rapidly expand medical research and clinical care knowledge, BBN launched BBN Healthcare Informatics (HCI). BBN HCI is working to combine and optimize clinical information across health systems, hospitals and ambulatory groups nationwide to deliver real-time information services to the healthcare industry.
Exploiting BBN’s groundbreaking technology in the areas of natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, semantic web and privacy and security, BBN HCI developed the LIFE Sight™ data integration and analytics platform. Through the integration, normalization and analysis of massive scale, longitudinal patient information, the LIFE Sight platform can:
- Visualize early-warning trends that indicate the potential outbreak of disease, the negative side-effects of a new drug, or the onset of a bioterrorism event.
- Deliver information to reduce the cost of care by identifying and monitoring best practices that equate to better outcomes.
- Advance research in areas such as epigenetics, personalized medicine and epidemiology where the correlation of clinical, genetic and environmental data is critical.
Just as BBN’s development of the Internet brought new and unthinkable capabilities to our everyday lives – BBN HCI’s global-scale aggregation of clinical information is revolutionizing healthcare.
