In the current era of digital transformation, there’s a growing trend among healthcare organizations to shift their data to the cloud.

Organizations such as Hackensack Meridian Health Inc. have successfully migrated to Google Cloud to improve patient care, operational efficiency and employee satisfaction through data analytics, AI deployment and change management, according to Sameer Sethi (pictured, left), the organization’s chief data and analytics officer. Meanwhile, the data analytic officer plays a key role in ensuring data and insights for patient care, engaging senior stakeholders and aligning incentives for technology projects in healthcare.

“I function as a data analytics officer. My job and function is to make sure that our business units, including clinicians, have the data and the insights that they need to run their business and take care of patients,” Sethi said. “My team focuses on bringing the data in from different source systems, normalizing the data and then developing insights on top of that. What that to me means is that we develop the why’s and the how’s out of the data versus just providing the data to folks.”

Sethi and Brian Doty (right), healthcare strategy and analytics leader at Deloitte Consulting LLP, spoke with theCUBE Research analysts Rebecca Knight and Rob Strechay at Google Cloud Next 2024, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how migration to the cloud could have strategic and efficiency implications on a company’s bottom line. (* Disclosure below.)

Advancing patient care with cloud analytics

Customer needs are the priority, and understanding and building products around those needs is crucial for success, according to Sethi. The migration to cloud infrastructure has allowed for faster go-to-market capabilities and increased flexibility in power and processing.

There were also challenges, of course, including understanding the business and the initial concept differing from the final outcome.

“When I inherited the team, it was a very descriptive team. What that means is that we provided data and we started to show the why,” Sethi said. “Over time we have migrated into a mindset and an infrastructure and a technology stack that starts to do some prediction. The migration for us has been an on-prem, very linear, let’s provide the data and some insights on top of it. Now we are getting into the why’s and the how’s and what will happen.”

Deloitte’s partnership with Hackensack Meridian Health was vital in helping the organization derive actionable insights from their data to facilitate better healthcare outcomes. During the transformation, it was important to engage with all levels of the organization early in the process to ensure that the migration aligned with business needs and was driven by them, according to Doty.

“It’s really important to … set expectations around what they’re trying to achieve and ensure that everyone is aligned and that the messaging to the organization is focused on the benefits and really ensuring that it is a business-driven and IT-enabled initiative,” Doty said.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Google Cloud Next 2024:

(* Disclosure: Deloitte Consulting LLP sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Deloitte nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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