Synchronization of healthcare data across disparate data centers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10692592-B2
Application number	US-201414258338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2014
Priority date	Apr 22, 2014
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for synchronizing healthcare data across disparate data centers. Healthcare data from healthcare data sources is received by a collector service that operates in a cloud computing platform. The data is sent to a staging platform associated with a first data center that is hosting the collector service. From here, the data is stored in association with a long-term storage data store associated with the first data center. As well, it is communicated to processing nodes associated with the first data center that subscribe to the data. The staging platform also communicates the data to a staging platform associated with a second data center. This staging platform also stores the data in association with a long-term storage data store located at the second data center and communicates the data to processing nodes located at the second data center that subscribe to the data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented system for synchronizing healthcare data across geographically-disparate data centers, the computer-implemented system including a server comprising:
a data collector service in a cloud computing platform communicating over a computer network utilizing at least one of a wired media, a wireless media, or a combination thereof and operable to:
receive healthcare data by communicating over the computer network from a plurality of healthcare data sources substantially simultaneously with the healthcare data being updated at the plurality of healthcare data source, and
communicate the healthcare data to a first staging platform associated with a first data center, wherein the first data center is remote from the plurality of health care data sources, wherein the healthcare data is kept separate based on the healthcare data source from which it is received;
the first staging platform associated with the first data center operable to concurrently:
store the healthcare data in association with a first long-term storage data store located at the first data center, wherein the healthcare data is indexed so that it is optimized for low-latency processing and categorized based on the healthcare data source from which it was received;
communicate the healthcare data to one or more processing nodes associated with the first data center that subscribe to received healthcare data based on nature of a computing solution implemented by the one or more processing node associated with the first data center on the healthcare data to generate clinically-relevant data, wherein the healthcare data is communicated in real-time to each of the one or more processing node performing low-latency processing on the healthcare data; and
communicate the healthcare data to a second staging platform associated with a second geographically-disparate data center, the second staging platform operable to store the healthcare data in association with a second long-term storage data store located at the second data center and communicate the healthcare data to one or more processing nodes associated with the second data center based on nature of the computing solution implemented by the one or more processing node associated with the second data center on the healthcare data to generate clinically-relevant data, wherein the healthcare data is communicated in real-time to each of the one or more processing node performing low-latency processing on the healthcare data,
wherein the clinically-relevant data is provided through the computer network to one or more user computers via one or more computer applications.

2. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the plurality of healthcare data sources maintain disparate electronic medical record systems.

3. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein the data collector service is referenced by a uniform resource locator (URL).

4. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein the healthcare data is cleared from the first staging platform subsequent to the healthcare data: 1) being stored in association with the first long-term storage data store, 2) being communicated to the one or more processing nodes associated with the first data center, and 3) being communicated to the second staging platform.

5. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein the data collector service is further operable to communicate an acknowledgement message to each of the plurality of healthcare data sources once the healthcare data has been communicated to the first staging platform associated with the first data center, the acknowledgment message acknowledging the receipt of the healthcare data.

6. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein the first and second long-term storage data stores persistently store the healthcare data.

7. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more processing nodes associated with the first data center is operable to perform batch processing on the healthcare data.

8. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more processing nodes associated with the first data center is operable to perform low-latency processing on the healthcare data.

9. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more processing nodes associated with the second data center is operable to perform batch processing on the healthcare data.

10. The computer-implemented system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more processing nodes associated with the second data center is operable to perform low-latency processing on the healthcare data.

11. A computerized method carried out by at least one server having at least one processor for synchronizing healthcare data across data centers, the method comprising:
at a first data center concurrently:
receiving a set of healthcare data over a computer network from a healthcare data source substantially simultaneously with the healthcare data being updated at the plurality of healthcare data source, wherein the healthcare data is kept separate base on the healthcare data source from which it is received;
storing the set of healthcare data in association with a first long-term storage data store associated with the first data center, wherein the first data center is remote from the healthcare data source, wherein the healthcare data is indexed so that it is optimized for low-latency processing and categorized based on the healthcare data source from which it was received;
determining, using the at least one processor, one or more processing nodes associated with the first data center that subscribe to the set of healthcare data;
communicating the set of healthcare data to the one or more processing nodes associated with the first data center based on nature of a computing solution implemented by the one or more processing node associated with the first data center on the healthcare data to generate clinically-relevant data, wherein the healthcare data is communicated in real-time to each of the one or more processing node performing low-latency processing on the healthcare data;
determining that one or more processing nodes associated with a second data center subscribe to the set of healthcare data; and
communicating the set of healthcare data to the second data center, wherein upon receipt of the set of healthcare data, the second data center stores the set of healthcare data in association with a second long-term storage data store associated with the second data center and communicates the set of healthcare data to the one more processing nodes associated with the second data center that subscribe to the set of healthcare data based on nature of the computing solution implemented by the one or more processing node associated with the second data center on the healthcare data to generate clinically-relevant data, wherein the healthcare data is communicated in real-time to each of the one or more processing node performing low-latency processing on the healthcare data,
wherein the clinically-relevant data is provided through the computer network to one or more user computers via one or more computer applications.

12. The computerized method of claim 11 , wherein the first data center is in a geographic location that is disparate from the second data center's geographic location.

13. The computerized method of claim 11 , wherein the healthcare data source comprises a healthcare organization.

14. The computerized method of claim 11 , further comprising:
receiving an updated set of health

Assignees

• Cerner Innovation Inc

Inventors

• Whitsitt Greg
• Whitacre Micah
• Olson Andrew

Classifications

• G16H10/60 Primary

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G06F19/00

  Physics · mapped topic