Medical Data Vision

Medical Data Vision save lives with Vectorwise

About Medical Data Vision

Medical Data Vision (MDV) develops management support software for hospitals and private health clinics throughout Japan. The MDV analyzer is an Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) service that collects and shares medical data from hospitals across Japan. The MDV analyzer aims to improve the quality of medical care by analyzing and sharing medical results with Pharmaceutical companies for epidemiological studies, market research and further drug development.

Challenge

The MDV analyzer is a hosted service that collects large volumes of complex medical data. Analysis tools are provided to investigate the effects of treatments across Japan.

“The MDV analyzer allows pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to analyze the success of treatments by different categories to help make better decisions on how to improve medical care,” explained Hirai-san, EBM Planning Team Manager at MDV. “A typical query might be analyzing between 800 million to 1 billion rows of data. Our end users access this information over the internet, and therefore fast results play an important role for user experience and user adoption.”

MDV’s previous EBM required an upgrade due to slow performance. “Our previous application used another column type database and performance was taking up to 30 seconds for a report on 2 years of data,” said Hirai-san. “This was unacceptable, so over a 2 month period we evaluated 5 other high performance databases to see which offered the best performance.”

Actian’s Vectorwise was the database chosen to power the MDV analyzer application, based on outstanding high performance and affordability. The solution was designed and implemented by Insight Technology for maximum query performance on commodity hardware.

Solution

With Vectorwise, the new MDV analyzer is able to analyze more data in less time, and be deployed to more concurrent users. “We were very happy with the level of performance Vectorwise delivers. It meant we could give end users the performance they expect without having to spend signicantly more on hardware,” explained Hirai-san.

“Vectorwise was easy to learn and deploy and has a very powerful analytical engine.” adds Hirai-san. “With the new MDV analyzer, queries that took 30 seconds with another column type database now take as little as 2 seconds with Vectorwise.”

In the 3 months since launch, the MDV analyzer is already being used by new customers. MDV plan to double that before the end of the year.

“Our aim is to improve the quality of patient care by providing fast and easy analytical insights of medical data. Vectorwise allows more users to analyze more data faster, which is an absolutely critical part of our solution. We love Vectorwise and it helps us to save lives,” says Hirai-san.