Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., has seen the first fruits of its partnership with Oracle,
which helped Moffitt develop its Health and Research Informatics (HRI)
platform. The data warehouse and analytics system, which went live last
October, has already enabled Moffitt to identify patients suitable for
clinical trials much faster than in the past. As a result, the cancer
center has been able to qualify for additional research grants,
according to Mark Hulse, Moffitt's vice president and CIO.
That's only the first step, Hulse told InformationWeek Healthcare.
Oracle's healthcare data model and high-level analytics give Moffitt
the ability to create personalized approaches to treating cancer, he
said. The HRI platform allows the institution to aggregate and analyze
diverse clinical and outcomes data. The resulting information will be
fed into "clinical pathways" to help physicians determine the best and
least toxic methods to treat individual patients.
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