Our vision
Arkhn supports healthcare facilities in the long-term management and valorization of their health data, to the benefit of the entire ecosystem.
To meet the challenges of data access, improve interoperability and bring data sovereignty to hospitals, we came up with a performant data management framework.
"Since the very beggining, we are convinced that healthcare facilities are in the best possible position to manage and valorize healthcare data themselves. By working hand-in-hand with medical and IT teams, we build trust-based relationships with the entire ecosystem. Our willingness to gather around this key organic challenge, as well as our core open-source approach are part of our DNA."
Théo and Emeric - Co-founders of Arkhn
To support the healthcare ecosystem as a whole in its data transition, we need to help hospitals gain back proper sovereignty over the data they collect and build-in the necessary interoperability at the scale of the entire ecosystem, by design. Today, this shift is as necessary as complex, due to the sensitiveness of healthcare data and the healthcare crisis that we face worldwide.
Bringing data to deliver better healthcare is key today.
Today, healthcare facilities use a wide range of softwares to track patients throughout their hospitalization, record medical observations and assist practitioners in their work.
Thus, a single hospital can have up to a dozen different softwares that are being used for different purposes.
Unfortunately, healthcare data is both compartmentalized and siloed within this software galaxy. Each software acts like a black box. Accessing and manipulating this data for secondary use purposes such as research is a dead end. The software-dependent data process as it is shaped today is long, difficult and costly, and underlines the hospital's dependence on its numerous software suppliers.
By promoting sovereignty, we consider that hospitals can and must be in a position to control their entire healthcare data chain, from data collection to data harmonization and finally, data re-use.
Not only is healthcare data siloed, but it also is heterogeneous: the lack of systemic data quality and standardization, which is essential at the hospital level, for example, makes any form of re-use unthinkable.
This lack of standardization slows down the work of care teams and hampers medical research initiatives. It underlines yet another complication for, say, the management of a given hospital. It ultimately gets harmful both for practitioners and patients.
The absence of a data-homogenization infrastructure generates enormous financial costs and perpetuates laborious and time-consuming work - since data is often collected and then cleaned manually.
By promoting interoperability, we encourage and ensure the adoption of the methods needed to move towards structured, standardized and therefore harmonized data across the entire healthcare ecosystem.
Working hand-in-hand with care teams and technical experts, we plug into hospitals’ softwares to collect and load data into the Arkhn data architecture based on data warehousing technologies and artificial intelligence.
Our team of data experts harmonize data within the deployed stack, at the pace of cycles of structuring and transformation of databases from business software, in co-construction with the medical experts of healthcare establishments and in line with their needs. In particular, we use the FHIR and OMOP interoperability standards, unanimously praised by the medical communities worldwide.
We guarantee easy and secure access to data architectures, which specifically enable to:
- Conduct medical research projects (large-scale analyses, creation of patient cohorts, etc.).
- Plus-in innovative solutions, with a drastic reduction in costs and deployment times
- Better manage the facility resources optimization, financial efficiency, care pathways flows, etc.) and by extension day-to-day work for care teams.
- Wrap-up partnerships with other healthcare stakeholders (software suppliers, pharmaceutical laboratories, healthcare start-ups & companies, etc.).
In contrast with the "black box" obsolete solutions, ever so often offering complete opacity regarding data, our approach guarantees a transparent and highly performant data architecture that can be maintained and upgraded over time, integrating security and confidentiality features by design. Guided by the modern data stacks principles, we follow a common thread that allows us to envision data as findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (the key FAIR principles in data management).
We started out as a non-profit, “association” in France. Going along this DNA of ours, we extensively use open-source solutions for our stack, since we are convinced that technologies that promote and guarantee data security in healthcare must be open and transparent. Open source accelerates the democratization of collaborative, digital healthcare and guarantees uncompromising transparency when it comes to security. The data standards we use and advocate, such as FHIR and OMOP, are also supported by very active open-source communities, with whom we regularly exchange information, particularly through meet-ups and dev-days.
To help the pace of healthcare facilities in the world of data, we believe it is essential to have a thorough understanding of data, tech and AI. On a daily basis, our team fosters an expertise in artificial intelligence and NLP (natural language processing), interoperability and healthcare data security, and strives to democratize its knowledge to make all these topics accessible to healthcare professionals.
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We take care of our teams and we nurture our customers and partners, by fostering trust: we carefully listen to the needs that we are entrusted with, and come up with relevant solutions that are being co-constructed. We are responsive, available and proactive, and we look out to maintain a cheerful, enthusiastic work standard.
Our ambition is to achieve open and collaborative healthcare. We make our expertise and innovative technologies available to support healthcare facilities, to the benefit of the entire healthcare ecosystem.