Enterprise Healthcare Data Engineering

Business Challenge

Our enterprise health plan client sought a partnership to build and launch a Machine Learning (ML), production ready Claims Decision Tool (CDT) to provides customer visualizations and analytics of claims data, reducing claims exposure.

The CDT tool serves important business functions and the top priority is making the MVP production ready first for internal users to meet immediate internal business needs, and then for several external audiences (and potentially other lines of business).

The current solution was developed by an R&D data team and suffers from a lack of application security, adherence to approved IT technology, and unstable environments to deliver quality software code and the data solution into production.

To accomplish the needed result, a core team including a project manager and two data architects/developers was created to collaborate with a product owner to deliver a first-generation MVP solution within the timeline and hybrid application technology (on prem and cloud based mix), while also establishing the mid term enterprise grade delivery plan.

EQengineered Approach

The EQengineered team worked as a dedicated data and software development team to organize and implement the solution by:

•Utilizing Agile Scrum methodology,  breaking down the work in small increments and applying continuous integrated development

•Integrating with the product ownership, data and technology teams to prioritize and manage work to MVP delivery

•Conducting daily stand-ups, focused sprint planning and bi-weekly demonstrations to improve client satisfaction with EQengineered deliverables

•Providing real time updates to executive leadership team through the currency of project artifacts and evolution of the project plan as needed based on the situation/progress to-date to ensure efficiency of delivery

Business Results/Outcomes

The EQengineered team assisted our client deliver a fully functional CDT application using enterprise security and Azure pipeline for proper dev-test-stage-prod workflow in the MVP launch.

The EQengineered team developed reference technology/software code proofs of concept for the on-prem app and resulting cloud data infrastructure of the solution. EQengineered also provided recommendations developed for security, DevOps (on-prem and Azure Cloud), a democratized SDLC process, design (personas/customer journeys), new approved technologies, and an app cloud migration roadmap for an external enterprise grade solution that defines the sustainable long-term delivery plan.

Client teams also learned from the EQengineered Agile methodology by attending the Agile ceremonies like daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinements and demo sessions.