(San Diego, CA) – Dataskill, a San Diego-based business intelligence and predictive analytics company, just announced the launch of their new prototype healthcare solution, ACUMI™. As part of their commitment to expand in to healthcare, Dataskill also announced their appointment of William Bria, MD to its executive team.
ACUMI™ (an Italian word, meaning “insights”) is a customized solution which allows hospitals to populate a clinical data repository directly from the dictation. Once the unstructured data is parsed, predictive analytics can be performed on the newly structured data. This near-real-time, machine-learning analytics solution combines speech-to-text, content analytics and natural language processing so statistical analytics, data mining and predictive analytics can be performed. It dramatically improves data accuracy, reporting, intelligence, operational efficiencies, and the care and safety for patients.
Dr. William Bria was appointed as Chief Medical Officer of Dataskill in November, 2012 in preparation for the release of ACUMI™. Dr. Bria brings over 30 years of clinical and medical informatics experience to Dataskill, most recently from Shriners Hospital for Children, serving as Chief Medical Information Officer for six years, and also as co-founder and current President of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), an organization of over 2,000 Chief Medical Information Officers. Dr. Bria is primarily tasked with overseeing medical strategy, ensuring clinician workflow, and that clinical decision-support systems are designed to be most effective for the clinicians who will use the ACUMI™ system. In addition to his experience from Shriners where he oversaw the integration of their twenty-two hospital EHR, Dr. Bria was CMIO at University of Michigan and Baystate Medical Center. Dr. Bria holds a specialty in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and holds an MD from Georgetown University. His residency and internship were at Emory University.
“The subject matter expertise that we need to deliver at the levels our clients demand is critical to our continued success. What Dr. Bria has done individually in his career and with AMDIS over the years is outstanding. This is a key step to advancing our solution into the predictive analytics healthcare space. We are confident Dr. Bria can help us get the message out on how Dataskill’s ACUMI™ can transform healthcare.”- Nigel Hook, CEO, Dataskill. “I am very excited about the opportunity to work with Dataskill to help advance the ACUMI™ solution. This solution is designed to allow the patient story to be told, and does it in conjunction with the most natural workflow for the clinician. It can be an outstanding decision-support system, but most importantly, it allows clinicians to focus on what is most critical of all: caring for patients.” Dr. William Bria, Dataskill Chief Medical Officer.
About Dataskill
Founded in 1981, Dataskill helps organizations make better use of their data. Specializing in big data integration and architecture, custom enterprise and mobile software, the company has designed solutions for 500-plus companies worldwide. Recently Dataskill unveiled their ACUMI™ solution which brings free-form text of clinician dictation and documents into usable form to populate an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems to optimize outcomes. The project incorporates Natural Language Processing and Content Analytics on physician notes, radiology notes, pathology notes, research protocols and other documents to analyze conditions, procedures, problems, medications, allergies, and quality parameters. This would enable high-level analytics for personalized medicine.
The San Diego Business Journal ranked Dataskill as one of San Diego 2012 Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The company continues to climb and as of the end of the year, Dataskill reported revenues were up over 40 percent from the prior year.