About Centaur® Data Platform
Centaur® Data Platform is a cloud-native Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed to streamline the conversion and management of healthcare data into the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. By seamlessly integrating with various data sources, including Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDWs), Core Administrative Claims Processing Engines, and Electronic Health Records (EMRs), Centaur® Data Platform serves as a centralized hub for ingesting, curating, and converting diverse healthcare data formats. This unified approach empowers health plans to establish robust connectivity with both internal and external data sources, ensuring data integrity and enabling efficient data flow from source to destination.
The FHIR data generated by Centaur® Data Platform can be leveraged by diverse teams within healthcare organizations, including Risk Adjustment, Utilization Management, FHIR-based Interoperability APIs, and Quality Analytics. This versatile application of the converted data empowers stakeholders to make informed decisions, improve care coordination, and enhance overall healthcare outcomes.
Centaur® Data Platform supports the HL7™ FHIR specification version R4 (4.0.1), covering all data elements from USCDI V1-V3. Centaur® Data Platform is built with a container architecture, which can be deployed in a Health Plan’s public cloud infrastructure. This deployment architecture helps Health Plans maintain data control and eliminate data hops, thus reducing operational costs. The current release of Centaur® Data Platform integrates with the following FHIR servers; Azure Health Data Services, Azure API for FHIR, and HAPI FHIR servers.
Centaur® Data Platform includes the following features:
Source Data Connectors
Centaur® Data Platform's Source Data Connectors are designed to streamline the ingestion of diverse healthcare data formats into a centralized FHIR server. By automating the process of ingesting converted source data from various sources, these connectors simplify data integration and facilitate the consumption of data for downstream analytics and applications.
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Convertor
Centaur® Data Platform's Convertor is a powerful tool designed to facilitate the seamless transformation of healthcare data from various formats into the FHIR. By orchestrating the mapping of diverse data types, including CCDA, XML, CSV, HL7™ messages, JSON, and more, the Convertor ensures that data is accurately and consistently represented in the FHIR standard.
Curator
Centaur® Data Platform's Curator is a critical component designed to maintain data quality and accuracy by identifying and eliminating duplicate resources within the healthcare data. This meticulous curation process is essential for ensuring that data is consistent, reliable, and free from redundancy. By removing duplicate records, the Curator helps to create accurate and comprehensive longitudinal member records, facilitating effective patient care and analysis.
EMPI Processor
Centaur® Data Platform's EMPI Processor is a vital component that safeguards the integrity of patient, practitioner, and organization data throughout the platform. By employing advanced matching algorithms, the EMPI Processor ensures that each individual, healthcare provider, and organization is represented uniquely.
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Validator
Centaur® Data Platform's Validator ensures the adherence of healthcare data to specific implementation guides (IGs) and the broader FHIR standards. IGs are customized sets of rules and guidelines that define how FHIR resources should be used in particular healthcare contexts. By systematically evaluating source data against these IGs and the FHIR specifications, the Validator guarantees that the data is consistent, accurate, and interoperable with other FHIR-based systems. For more information on implementation guides (IGs) and their role in FHIR, please visit: https://hl7.org/fhir/implementationguide.html
Reference Handler
Centaur® Data Platform's Reference Handler is a critical component that ensures the integrity and consistency of healthcare data by managing and resolving references between various FHIR resources. References are pointers that connect different resources within a FHIR dataset, allowing for a comprehensive understanding of relationships and dependencies.
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Retry Reference Handler
Centaur® Data Platform's Retry Reference Handler is a valuable feature that enhances the platform's resilience and adaptability in handling dynamic data scenarios. By enabling the FHIR server to reattempt the resolution of previously unresolved references, the Retry Reference Handler helps to address situations where referenced resources may be temporarily unavailable or have been deleted. This feature is particularly useful in environments where data availability and consistency can fluctuate. By automatically retrying reference resolution attempts, the Retry Reference Handler helps to ensure data integrity and prevent errors caused by transient issues.
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HL7™ Engine
Centaur® Data Platform's HL7™ Engine is a specialized component designed to efficiently process and manage HL7™ messages, which are a common standard for exchanging healthcare data. The HL7™ Engine offers a comprehensive suite of functionalities, including routing, transformation, processing, and validation of HL7™ messages such as ADT (Admission, Discharge, and Transfer), ORU (Observation Result), ORM (Observation Request) and others.
The HL7™ Engine consists of several key components:- HL7™ Router: This component routes HL7™ messages through the MLLP (Minimum Lower Layer Protocol) protocol, ensuring seamless communication between systems.
- HL7™ Engine Processor: This component serves as the entry point for HL7™ messages, initiating the processing workflow.
- HL7™ Validator: This component rigorously validates HL7™ messages against established HL7™ specifications, ensuring adherence to industry standards and data integrity.
By effectively handling HL7™ messages, the HL7™ Engine plays a crucial role in enabling interoperability and facilitating the exchange of healthcare data between different systems.
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Management Portal
Centaur® Data Platform's Management Portal is a centralized hub that provides healthcare organizations with comprehensive oversight and control over their data processing configurations and operations. The portal offers a user-friendly interface for reviewing data traceability through the HL7™ Engine, analyzing errors across various platform components, and accessing the platform's powerful data observability dashboard.
The integrated data observability dashboard provides in-depth visibility into data processing metrics, allowing users to track data points from their initial source to their final destination within the FHIR server. This comprehensive view enables organizations to identify and address potential issues at each stage of the data processing pipeline, including the HL7™ Engine, Centaur® Core, and the FHIR Server itself.