A catalyst for innovation, a leading bioscience research institute based in the Midwest, the Indiana Bioscience Research Institute (IBRI), is working toward its mission of becoming the first industry-inspired institute in the development of solutions that improve the health of those suffering from diabetes, metabolic disease, and poor nutrition. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Virtusa were brought in to assist the IBRI and Fuse by Cardinal Health to provide the technical skills and infrastructure to assess and optimize a simulated electronic health records (EHRs) dataset from Fuse to match the characteristics of IBRI's type 2 diabetes (T2D)-related EHR datasets.
The IBRI uses these EHR datasets with its research collaborators to drive insights into patient subgroups, disease characteristics, and complications of patients with T2D and to develop and validate T2D-related prediction models. An improved data analytics platform and a "realistic" simulated dataset that matched the complexities of a real EHR dataset as provided by Fuse has the potential to accelerate certain of the IBRI's research activities.