Inflexible system slowed down development and data utilisation
The award-winning Heart Hospital, staffed by over 700 professionals, is renowned for its outstanding performance, consistently using data to drive operational development and ensure high-quality care. However, by 2022, the hospital’s knowledge management was based on a SAS-based data warehouse that had reached the end of its life cycle.
Creating new reports was laborious and time-consuming, and maintaining existing ones required constant effort. While the need for new ways to utilise data grew, technical debt and the task list grew uncontrollably. It was clear that a strategic change was needed.
Speed and impact with a modern data platform and agile development
The Heart Hospital chose Solita as its partner to implement an ambitious modernisation of its data capabilities. We designed and built a modern, Microsoft Azure-based data lake solution using Solita’s Agile Data Engine (ADE) tool. The data lake solution was named Sydäntietoallas (Heart Data Lake).
One of the most significant results emerged from the implementation of impact reporting, envisioned and initiated by Heart Hospital, made possible by Solitans’ strong IT expertise. The Tableau dashboards developed in collaboration with Heart Hospital’s medical leadership bring together clinical metrics and patient experiences, making the effectiveness of care visible and measurable in physicians’ daily work.
“Our vision was clear: we wanted to make measuring the effectiveness of treatment part of everyday management and clinical work”, says Markku Eskola, Medical Director, Heart Hospital and continues:
