Case Study: Precision Diagnostics achieves actionable behavioral-health insights and improved patient outcomes with Microsoft Azure and Power BI

Prescription for data visualization lab uses Power BI to aggregate behavioral health and other test data

Precision Diagnostics, a San Diego–based medical lab that processes more than 1,500 body‑fluid samples daily for hospitals, clinics, practices, and insurers, realized that standard test requests left valuable behavioral‑health data unused. With its NextGen Precision Testing producing many more data points relevant to issues like opioid use, clinicians were still overburdened by manual data entry and lacked a way to aggregate and visualize that information for patient‑level and population‑level decision making.

Precision Diagnostics built Precision Analytics on Microsoft Power BI and Azure (Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure SQL Database, Azure Active Directory) to connect its LIMS and disparate sources, produce interactive dashboards, and map geographic and population trends. The platform improved detection of low‑level drug presence, streamlined clinician workflows, supported HIPAA compliance, and gave providers and insurers fast, actionable insights to improve care and respond to public‑health needs.

Precision Diagnostics

Greg Ackerman

Chief Technology Officer