SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Dec. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Hortonworks, Inc. ® (NASDAQ: HDP) today announced that
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the private, non-profit
organization managing the United
States organ transplant system, is using Hortonworks Data
Platform (HDP®) to help transplant professionals make more informed
decisions when life-saving organs become available.
UNOS has been a data-centric organization from its inception.
The organization maintains data on every organ transplant performed
in the United States since 1987, a
substantial sum considering the nearly 31,000 transplanted organs
in 2015 alone. As a non-profit, UNOS maintains this database under
a tight budget. As UNOS sought to build an enterprise data
warehouse and merge disparate and large data sources with
unstructured and variable formats, scaling costs were of paramount
concern.
"We felt that Hortonworks offered more flexibility to leverage
open source versus finding ourselves in a position with other
providers that might lock us in. We didn't want to lock ourselves
into a proprietary solution," said Alex
Tulchinsky, chief technology officer, UNOS.
One of UNOS' first HDP use cases aimed to improve the quality,
scope and timeliness of its Organ Offer Report for transplant
centers and organ procurement organizations. Through a self-service
reporting system and Hadoop-based data analytics, new reports are
more detailed, visually rich, and are generated more quickly. UNOS
has since expanded its use of HDP and is planning bold new projects
in the future.
"We want to be able to correlate diverse sets of data to create
a unified view of all historical data about patients and organs
before, during, and after transplantation. This will give the
donation and transplantation community more information into
factors considered for organ transplants, which in turn will
influence future transplantation policies and practices," said
Tulchinsky.
"Leveraging data to gain insights into clinical, financial and
operational improvement is paramount and Hortonworks Data Platform
provides the scale and flexibility to put all data under
management, in order to facilitate actionable intelligence," said
Richard Proctor, general manager of
healthcare, Hortonworks. "We are proud to partner with UNOS to
increase organ transplant efficiency and ultimately save more
lives."
Further Reading
- Read more about UNOS and Hortonworks' Big Data journey
http://hortonworks.com/customers/UNOS/
- To learn more about UNOS, including how to become a life-saving
organ donor, visit https://www.unos.org/
- For more about Connected Data Platforms for Healthcare
http://hortonworks.com/solutions/healthcare/
About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is an industry leading innovator that creates,
distributes and supports enterprise-ready open data platforms and
modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence from
all data: data-in-motion and data-at-rest. Hortonworks is focused
on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache
Hadoop, Apache NiFi and Apache Spark. Along with its 1,800+
partners, Hortonworks provides the expertise, training and services
that allow customers to unlock transformational value for their
organizations across any line of business.
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