To support that vision, the organization partnered with Apexon to accelerate the development of new products and technology and strengthen existing offerings. Apexon’s AWS and HIPAA experts quickly assimilated into Navigating Cancer’s engineering organization, to help build scalable and cloud-native solutions for clinicians and patients across the client’s digital health platform. The end result was an improved patient experience achieved by real-time insights, notifications, and customized cancer care at an optimized cost and increased deployment speed.
Success Story Healthcare
Navigating Cancer delivers industry-leading digital oncology solutions with AWSApexon leverages Healthcare & Technology expertise to accelerate product development
Navigating Cancer is at the forefront of improving the lives of cancer patients with the most broadly deployed oncology patient management platform in the US.
Backed by industry-leading patient satisfaction ratings, the company’s digital solutions support more than one million patients, thousands of oncology care providers, dozens of pharmaceutical manufacturers, and several payer models nationwide.
With a vision to create the first truly patient-centered platform for oncology, Navigating Cancer empowers patients through proactive and intelligent digital health solutions. The platform leverages dynamic data-enabled services to personalize the patient care experience, drive provider efficiencies, and reduce costs.
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FOUNDED IN 2008
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Supporting 1M+ patients on the platform
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Adopted by 2,700+ cancer care providers
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$3.86m savings generated*
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426 avoided er events*
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6.8% reduction in unnecessary ER visits*
*According to a study published in the Journal of Oncology Practice which analysed 10,471 triage incidents
the Results
Key Outcomes
Improved patient
outcomes
As a result of utilization of Navigating Cancer products and services
Creation of a next-gen
digital companion
Supported the creation of a next-gen digital companion for oncology patients built around a modern mobile-focused patient experience
digitization of
Patient Home Care
Supported the digitization of Patient Home Care instructions and incident management
Personalized patient
engagement services
Implemented technologies to support the development of personalized patient engagement services, that allow for a more proactive care experience, resulting in improved medication adherence, time on therapy, and outcomes
ImproveD care
delivery
Developed customizable patient populations to tailor care to patients and improve the quality and cost of care delivery
Go Digital
Accelerating the delivery of new digital initiatives with confidence
Be digital
Creating the infrastructure and foundation to scale digital initiatives
Evolve Digital
Leveraging data and analytics to continuously improve digital delivery processes
Enable digital adoption in a quick, and agile manner
Apexon assigned an Agile POD to develop a future system architecture blueprint and proof-of-concepts, pilots, and MVPs in an accelerated timeframe.
Based on that evaluation, Navigating Cancer worked with Apexon to optimize their AWS-based architecture to provide higher availability, faster deployment, higher flexibility with the shortest path to production.
Build digital infrastructure and foundation for enterprises to scale
The Apexon Agile POD helped Navigating Cancer develop a new HIPAA-compliant Big Data platform on AWS cloud.
Apexon leveraged its in-house AWS and Data Engineering Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to integrate third-party tools like Matillion and Snowflake to future-proof the infrastructure for Navigating Cancer’s long-term goals.
Leverage data engineering to make strategic decisions and get digital right every time
Apexon and Navigating Cancer continue to focus on driving innovative digital solutions in patient care and clinical insights.
AGILE POD
A multi-skilled team consisting of digital strategists, cloud, and data architects
The challenge
To leverage the latest digital technologies in patient oncology care
Navigating Cancer continuously strives to incorporate the latest technologies into its patient care platform to deliver the best patient experience in oncology care. By helping providers engage patients more effectively, Navigating Cancer’s solutions are able to improve treatment adherence, reduce care costs, encourage healthier behavior and produce better patient outcomes.
Navigating Cancer’s vision and strategy is dependent on data and the underlying infrastructure to capture, produce, and manage that data for the benefit of patients and care providers.
The Solution
Developing A pilot architecture blueprint
Apexon started by partnering with Navigating Cancer to define key business KPI’s and success criteria.
To achieve this, the Apexon Agile POD developed an architecture blueprint to launch and experiment with pilots and Proofs-of-Concept (POCs) in a rapid timeframe.
The Apexon POD helped Navigating Cancer design a POC for a HIPAA-compliant Big Data platform with AWS. The POC acted as the blueprint for Navigating Cancer as they built out their data warehouse and data lake infrastructure to leverage the benefits of Big Data.
Apexon also worked with Navigating Cancer to assess other data-specific tools like Matillion and Snowflake to ensure the solution design would meet both today’s and tomorrow’s needs.
Apexon’s Enterprise Data Analytics Platform, which is designed for data scientists and analysts to develop machine learning (ML) modules and business intelligence applications, was leveraged to accelerate Navigating Cancer’s data platform design.
AWS services used:
Amazon
S3
S3
AWS Lambda
Amazon SQS
Amazon Pinpoint