Case Study: A Healthcare IT Company achieves faster payments and compliant, lower‑cost data retention with Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

Streamlining Healthcare Connectivity with an Enterprise Data Hub

A healthcare IT subsidiary of a major pharmaceutical company faced growing pressure as US healthcare systems went electronic: its in‑house databases could not meet a corporate policy to retain seven years of claims and remittance data while processing millions of daily transactions, and the risk team required robust encryption and strict access controls. The team evaluated Hadoop, MongoDB, and Cassandra, built prototypes, and chose Hadoop for its ability to segregate big data from transactional systems and enable analytics without compromising regulatory compliance.

The company deployed Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (CDH) with Flume, Sqoop and HDFS and implemented Vormetric for centralized encryption and key management, offloading archival and logging workloads from production databases. Within months they archived 7+ years of data (30 TB in four months), processed ~1 TB/day, simplified administration, met compliance requirements, lowered storage costs compared with traditional SANs, and sped up payment processing for providers by streamlining message conversion and routing.