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How Our Solutioning DNA Helped Modernize A KLAS-Recognized Population Health Platform

How Our Solutioning DNA Helped Modernize A KLAS-Recognized Population Health Platform

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Case Study

How Our Solutioning DNA Helped Modernize A KLAS-Recognized Population Health Platform

How Our Solutioning DNA Helped Modernize A KLAS-Recognized Population Health Platform

Case Study

How Our Solutioning DNA Helped Modernize A KLAS-Recognized Population Health Platform

How Our Solutioning DNA Helped Modernize A KLAS-Recognized Population Health Platform

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From Fragmented Infrastructure to FHIR-Native Efficiency: A Case Study in Healthcare Platform Modernization

One-liner summary:
Ideas2IT rebuilt a legacy population health platform into a cloud-native, FHIR-compliant architecture cutting costs by 50% and onboarding time from 4 months to 2 weeks.

The Problem with the Status Quo

A KLAS-recognized PHM provider was stuck with legacy infrastructure, fragmented data, and slow onboarding cycles. Ideas2IT modernized their entire data and analytics pipeline using Kubernetes, Delta Lake, and FHIR enabling plug-and-play onboarding, real-time QA, and 50% cost savings. The result? A future-ready PHM platform designed for scale, speed, and interoperability.

Where the Gaps Were

The Problem

Despite strong market recognition, the client’s platform suffered from:

  • Siloed data formats (CCD, HL7, EDI 837/835)
  • Manual onboarding and reconciliation
  • High infra costs and sluggish performance
  • Poor interoperability and limited analytics agility

New client rollouts took up to 4 months. Query times were slow. Scaling meant rewriting. Interfacing with external EHRs or payers was a custom dev effort every time.

They needed a platform rethink.

What We Delivered

Ideas2IT re-architected the entire PHM system around automation, modularity, and FHIR compliance. We built a cloud-native ingestion and analytics engine with:

  • Secure file ingestion via S3 with AES encryption
  • FHIR-native converters to normalize CCD, HL7, EDI formats
  • Delta Lake with Medallion architecture for scalable analytics
  • Kubernetes for portable, cloud-agnostic deployment
  • Great Expectations for inline data quality checks
  • Trino + Power BI for real-time reporting and visualization

We also built custom tooling to accelerate delivery:

  • A Python-based FHIR transformer
  • A lightweight, in-house FHIR client
  • Integration with Omniparser for flexible input handling

Every service (except S3 ingestion) was containerized and orchestrated via Kubernetes, giving the client total control over deployment environments and minimizing vendor lock-in.

Outcomes We Achieved

50% Lower Operational Cost Per Client
Elastic infrastructure and containerized services drastically cut ongoing cloud spend.

Onboarding Time Cut from 4 Months to 2 Weeks
Standardized ingestion and reusable modules eliminated bespoke client setups.

Real-Time Data Validation Built In
Great Expectations flagged anomalies at the pipeline level no manual QA needed downstream.

Seamless Interoperability with EHRs and Payers
FHIR-native design enabled clean integration, no custom APIs or transformation layers required.

Key Lessons

  • FHIR = velocity. Standardization unlocked scale.
  • Design for reusability, not rework. Modular pipelines made onboarding plug-and-play.
  • Data quality is a pipeline concern. Inline validation replaced brittle post-load checks.
  • Kubernetes future-proofs your infra. Cloud-agnostic, scalable, and production-resilient.
Industry
Healthcare
Location
USA
Tech Stacks
Challenge

Manual workflows, slow queries, and costly onboarding plagued a leading population health system, dragging down efficiency and scalability.

Key Takeaways

You can’t build a modern PHM business on legacy scaffolding. By rethinking the entire architecture around FHIR, automation, and cloud-native tooling, we turned onboarding into a repeatable process and analytics into a real-time asset.

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