Paul Boal ❄️

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  • Why You Should Be Using IoT Technologies for More Than Just IoT

    Big Data Summit Kansas City, StampedeCon

    Technology innovations that enable a new capability shouldn’t be used only for that new capability; we should be using IoT technologies and methods for many of our workloads. Streaming dataflow, event-based processing, edge computing, big data and smart devices – how do traditional enterprise processes and systems look through the IoT lens? For example, consider that even a general ledger account could instantly become a kind of monitoring device that receives environmental input from…

    Technology innovations that enable a new capability shouldn’t be used only for that new capability; we should be using IoT technologies and methods for many of our workloads. Streaming dataflow, event-based processing, edge computing, big data and smart devices – how do traditional enterprise processes and systems look through the IoT lens? For example, consider that even a general ledger account could instantly become a kind of monitoring device that receives environmental input from budgeting and operations and, collaborating with other similar devices, can alert a business when it is in financial peril – just like a combination of mechanical sensors on mining equipment can identify when the machine is likely to fail. We’ll explore the possibilities.

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  • IoT for Population Health

    StampedeCon

    The Internet of (Human) Things is just beginning to take shape. The human body is an inexhaustible source of data about personal health, and the healthcare industry is just beginning to scratch the surface of the potential insights and value that will come from that data.  While much of healthcare traditionally focuses on the episodic delivery of services, the Affordable Care Act is pushing healthcare providers, payers, and self-funded employer groups to look at ways to proactively encourage…

    The Internet of (Human) Things is just beginning to take shape. The human body is an inexhaustible source of data about personal health, and the healthcare industry is just beginning to scratch the surface of the potential insights and value that will come from that data.  While much of healthcare traditionally focuses on the episodic delivery of services, the Affordable Care Act is pushing healthcare providers, payers, and self-funded employer groups to look at ways to proactively encourage healthy behaviors. Providing personal health devices as a way to promote individual health is one way that healthcare is beginning to take advantage of IoT technologies.  This session provides insight into how IoT is being leveraged in population health management through a solution jointly delivered by Amitech Solutions and Big Cloud Analytics.  Attendees will learn how Hadoop is being used to gather personal device from various vendors, integrate and analyze that information, differentiate trends across regional and cultural diversity, and provide personal recommendations and insights into health risks. This session presents one important way the healthcare industry is leveraging IoT.

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  • Real-Time Clinical Analytics

    Hadoop Summit

    Making an impact in healthcare outcomes requires a real-time analytical engine. Using Hive, HBase, and Storm, Mercy has built a foundational data architecture that provides up-to-the-minute data about its patients and provide decision support solutions for clinicians and other co-workers.

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  • Handling EHR Access Logs with Hadoop

    StampedeCon

    Electronic Health Records systems are required to keep an audit trail of everyone accessing any patient information. What results is similar to the click-stream of a website. This audit data is required for regulatory compliance, but can also be useful in understanding behavior patterns and how processes actually get done. Mercy has more than 20TB of this access log data and has recently moved it from a specialized column-store database into Hadoop using HBase for storage and Apache Phoenix…

    Electronic Health Records systems are required to keep an audit trail of everyone accessing any patient information. What results is similar to the click-stream of a website. This audit data is required for regulatory compliance, but can also be useful in understanding behavior patterns and how processes actually get done. Mercy has more than 20TB of this access log data and has recently moved it from a specialized column-store database into Hadoop using HBase for storage and Apache Phoenix for JDBC / SQL access. Users access to the standard access log reports are through SAP Business Objects.

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Projects

  • Research Data Warehouse

    Developing a Research Data Warehouse plan to harness Big Data capabilities to meld meaningful comparative effectiveness research (CER) with the most accurate and up-to-date information possible concerning all aspects of healthcare.

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Honors & Awards

  • Beta Gamma Sigma Member

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    A lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS). BGS recognizes and honors the top 20% of graduate students from around the world in business schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). I earned my membership through the Executive MBA program at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Organizations

  • TDWI St. Louis Chapter

    President, past Membership Chair

    - Present

  • UMSL IS Advisory Board

    Curriculum Chair, past President

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