Having recently merged with Virtual Radiologic Corp, Radiology Alliance is an innovative and quickly growing regional radiology group based in Nashville, Tennessee.

In late 2013, CEO Kirk Hintz, armed with an excellent technology team of his own, approached Airlift Group with a vision for utilizing OLAP technology in order to identify and leverage discovered process efficiencies, to thereby strengthen operations and increase overall quality of produced reports.

The two teams have successfully collaborated to create an intelligent configurable data-loading and cleansing engine that transforms a common database of studies, events, and radiologist activities, into a multi-dimensional data warehouse which provides a plethora of measures that can by sliced and diced and graphed through a web-based decision support dashboard.

The resulting Radiologyc analytics platform is powered by Airlift Group’s open-source Cubifier OLAP engine and framework. Innovative projects built upon this technology and integrated with the recently expanded enterprise, are on the horizon.

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Operating Room Analytics

Syús, lead by CEO Kevin O’Hara, pursues the core mission to deliver powerful, easy-to-use, data-powered tools to improve the performance of surgical services.

The concept for Syús evolved out of the quest for efficiency within the Anesthesia Medical Group (AMG). David Whitten, CEO, believed that staffing decisions for the OR ought to be driven by empirical data, which was not the case with block scheduling at most hospitals.

He appointed David Reynolds to identify ways to more efficiently deploy the doctors and nurses of AMG. Reynolds and his task force, the Airlift Group partners, rose to the challenge, developing an analytical framework that is the foundation of the present Syús solution.

With the help of these unique, targeted analytics, AMG was able to handle more cases in less time, ultimately increasing both earnings for the company and staff satisfaction. Subsequently, the technology team successfully tested the offering at a sampling of hospitals, medical centers and anesthesia practices across the United States, affirming that the solution's benefits could be readily replicated.

In 2006, The Syús team began planning, for a broad offering that was scalable to surgical facilities and anesthesia practices nationwide. A strategic partnership was formed with Airlift Group which crafted a vision and path forward to expand the core technology into a comprehensive suite of applications, including, extensive analytics measures and reports, as well as components assisting with scheduling and tracking of various staff and resources in the perioperative environment.

The Syus/Airlift technology partnership is now celebrating 14 successful years with a queue of interesting product enhancements and expansions in the works.

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People today are overwhelmed, frustrated and confused by the sea of medical paperwork created by the healthcare system. At the same time, employers are struggling to avoid decreasing benefits or increasing premiums in an attempt to gain some control over the company's healthcare costs. And for both groups, reining in healthcare costs is difficult if those making the decision 'healthcare consumers' are completely disconnected from the impact of their healthcare choices and isolated from each other's experiences. Change Healthcare provides consumers the tools, services and information they need to make the best healthcare decisions possible.

Airlift Group partnered with Change Healthcare to assist in the analysis, design, modeling, deployment and application development around its healthcare consumer data warehouse. Our team was instrumental in designing and delivering components all along the information path from ETL (data loading) to presentation of consumer dashboards and measures, during the vital period in which the foundational core technology was being developed.

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Edgenet is a network that connects retailers and manufacturers to consumers with multichannel selling solutions powered by rich product content. Edgenet's Big Hammer Data division maintains one of the largest and richest data pools in retail, serving thousands of suppliers and synchronizing more than 600,000 product items and 25 million attributes.

Edgenet solutions empower consumers and associates with visual product knowledge, endless buying options and customizable products and services, increasing sales for retailers and manufacturers across all product segments.

The Airlift Group team was hired by Edgenet to assist in the design and development of it’s core Java-based application technology. Using the Airlift for Java framework, an MDA (model driven architecture) approach was taken which allowed for UML-based data modeling to automatically drive an object-relational mapping layer, business objects, and data definitions and migrations all from a single cohesive graphical data model.

The team also assisted with application development, architectural consulting and code quality reviews.

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Prakash Raghothamachar

Principal Architect

Prakash began his software development career in the 1995 as part of his Masters' thesis. Since then has been actively involved in software development especially web development. He also has a very strong background in database modeling and administration having had experience with various database products including MySQL, Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server.

Prakash has proven his abilities as a software architect, data architect, developer, team leader and development manager, many times over and at several different companies, including Edgenet Inc, Factory23 Inc, InfoAdvantage Inc and PR Consultants Inc. He has served with great success in all areas of product development including Software Engineering, Architecture and Data Architecture.

Prakash completed his Bachelors' in Civil Engineering at VJTI, University of Bombay, India in 1995 followed by a Masters' in Structural Engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN in 1998 with a full Tuition scholarship.

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Milan Zimmerman

Systems and Applications Architect

While maintaining interest in his original fields of physics and mathematics, Milan has been in software engineering for over a quarter of a century, working with his partners in Airlift for the better part of the last fifteen years. He has developed software solutions for healthcare, oil and gas industries, airlines, insurance, and other areas, including scientific. He has been using multitude languages and platforms, from popular to fringe, in particular, has been a Unix and later Linux fan since the beginning of his career. His more recent interests is platforms and languages that are responsive, fast-development-cycle, and scalable (Dart, Flutter), and ideally, "lively". Milan keeps his infrequently updated blog on https://mzimmerm.github.io/; several open source projects he recently contributed to at https://github.com/mzimmerm. In his spare time, apart from tinkering with all aspects of IT, he enjoys spending time with his grown up children, follows physics, plays hockey, and delights in as many owl-watching walks as he can find time for.

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Mark Baird

AWS Solutions Architect
Interface Developer

Mark Baird is a Senior Full-stack Cloud Solutions Architect with over 16 years of experience in DevOps, process automation, systems and interface design. Mark has led successful AWS cloud migrations of multiple start-ups. Mark also enjoys building clean, functional and elegant user interfaces. His diverse career involving everything from server-side automation to web and mobile development gives Mark an understanding of how all the pieces fit together; critical knowledge for his current role. Mark's background in the healthcare industry began with the initial HIPAA compliance effort at WebMD Physician Services (now Emdeon).

Mark maintains a blog at codeammo.com and is active on Stack Overflow and GitHub. Mark earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Middle Tennessee State University.

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Mark Soileau

Founder and Principal Architect

Mark has been developing software in an entrepreneurial context since his high school days. He helped develop one of the healthcare industry’s first data warehouses and decision support dashboards for Computer Sciences Corporation’s Healthcare division. A unique approach to aggregation and presentation of analytics data, sourced from disparate enterprise systems, has evolved and emerged. Mark has designed and developed a diverse spectrum of technologies from open source application development frameworks and special-purpose operating systems to model-driven architecture productivity tools.

Most recently, Mark has worked in business and technology development, mostly in partnership with healthcare technology startups, to turn innovative ideas into analytics systems that improve both quality of outcomes as well as efficiencies around resource planning and utilization. His most recent focus in open-source development frameworks is the Cubifier OLAP aggregation engine and toolkit.

Mark leads the Airlift Group, a small team of highly experienced, tactical and innovative partners, who have been collaborating cohesively and highly successfully for decades.

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