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Health & Life Sciences

"IBM Netezza will accelerate our ability to devise, test and publish new computationally intensive algorithms that we hope become the 'gold standard' for researchers globally."


Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD
Vice Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Health & Life Sciences

Case Study: BCBS Massachusetts breaks information barriers

Deploying high performance analytics with IBM Business Analytics and Netezza

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Healthcare

Leading healthcare organizations use IBM® Netezza® data warehouse appliances to generate insight, improve care, decrease SAS user frustration, and increase speed in areas such as, EHR analysis, clinical analytics and benchmarking, fraud analytics and detection, sales and marketing segmentation, combinatorial genomic analysis, and pharmacoepidemiology.

IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances are fast, making SAS 10X-100X faster; easy to use, there's no complex database administrator work like tuning and indexing to slow down IT; and have a low cost of ownership. Our appliances are able to handle the tens of terabytes involved in drug safety and effectiveness informatics, along with the advanced analytics.

IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances in pharmacoepidemiology

The IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance has been enhanced to provide an end-to-end workbench to accelerate your studies, and to be used for Health Economics and Outcomes Research, and Pharmacoepidemiology. This IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance for health outcomes analytics comes with a constantly growing toolset for high-performance outcomes analytics, including:

  • SAS acceleration module
  • Easy-to-use cohort builder for complex patient selection
  • OMOP and US public data models
  • Cognos visualization toolOMOP and Harvard Medical School pharmacoeconomic methods

Read the following case study of how Dr Sebastian Schneeweiss, of the faculty at the of Harvard Medical School at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, uses IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances to develop methods for pharmacoepidemiology.

Case Study: Harvard Medical School

See how healthcare organizations are using Netezza for their data analytics:

Pharma Commercial Sales & Marketing
Payer Fraud & Abuse
Next-Generation Sequencing Analytics
Electronic Health Record Analytics