Oracle, Moffitt collaborate on Cancer informatics system

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Slideshow: Health it stimulates the Patient Care, SafetyAs part of a continuing effort to provide patients with cancer more personalized care, Moffitt Cancer Center, and Oracle are working together on a new computer health system and research.

Scalable and secure, system built with Oracle health sciences technology, support of Moffitt Total Cancer Care program, which is a comprehensive approach to provide individualized, based on evidence for cancer patients.

This implies Moffitt-with the consent of the patients-grouping and analysis of data related to diagnostics, treatment, follow-up and bio-specimens and other sources clinical, thousands of individuals treated in 18 cancer treatment hospitals in the United States participating in the program of Total cancer care.

Among the Oracle products and technologies that are used by Moffitt for her "generation health and computer research system" are Oracle Health Sciences Enterprise Healthcare Analytics suite, Oracle Healthcare Master person Index, Oracle 11 g database and Oracle Fusion Middleware componentssaid Kris Joshi, Oracle VP of strategy of health care products.

Oracle and Moffitt are working on adding new information sources data model Oracle Healthcare Data Warehouse Foundation, including sequencing DNA related to patient tissue, including malignant tumours.

This system will be also supports the analysis of data from DNA sequencing with several other sources of information on patients, including e-health records in the hope of obtaining an overview more rapid on the effectiveness of treatments, Joshi, said in an interview.

For example, the analysis could provide new findings on the efficacy of cancer treatments on patients with common biomarkers and other similarities, allowing researchers and clinicians more progress quickly treatments customized for other people. Work underway at Moffitt "gives an overview of the integrated future of cancer care" and the treatment of other diseases, for example, says Joshi.

Moffitt also uses the Oracle Data Warehouse Foundation Healthcare model to normalize and aggregate information so that the quality of the data is optimal for analysis. "You want to compare apples with apples, step of apples with oranges,"then that analysis of data on patients, Joshi said.""

For example, if two different laboratories performing the same express test results in different values, such a milligrams versus micrograms, the data must be standardized so that the statistical calculations are accurate analysis. "A doctor may look both test results and understand, they are the same, but once these different values on the whole, it is difficult to fix," he said. Oracle platform transforms and normalizes the data so that the analysis is correct, he said.

Moffitt, based in Tampa, Florida, is a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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