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Navigating Cancer delivers industry-leading digital oncology solutions with AWS

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Navigating Cancer is at the forefront of improving the lives of cancer patients with the most broadly deployed oncology patient management platform in the US.

Backed by industry-leading patient satisfaction ratings, the company’s digital solutions support more than one million patients, thousands of oncology care providers, dozens of pharmaceutical manufacturers, and several payer models nationwide.

With a vision to create the first truly patient-centered platform for oncology, Navigating Cancer empowers patients through proactive and intelligent digital health solutions. The platform leverages dynamic data-enabled services to personalize the patient care experience, drive provider efficiencies, and reduce costs.

  • FOUNDED IN 2008

    FOUNDED IN 2008

  • Supporting 1M+ patients on the platform

    Supporting 1M+ patients on the platform

  • Adopted by 2,700+ cancer care providers

    Adopted by 2,700+ cancer care providers

  • $3.86m savings generated*

    $3.86m savings generated*

  • 426 avoided er events*

    426 avoided er events*

  • 6.8% reduction in unnecessary ER visits*

    6.8% reduction in unnecessary ER visits*

*According to a study published in the Journal of Oncology Practice which analysed 10,471 triage incidents

integrated solution to transform cancer patient care

To support that vision, the organization partnered with Apexon to accelerate the development of new products and technology and strengthen existing offerings. Apexon’s AWS and HIPAA experts quickly assimilated into Navigating Cancer’s engineering organization, to help build scalable and cloud-native solutions for clinicians and patients across the client’s digital health platform. The end result was an improved patient experience achieved by real-time insights, notifications, and customized cancer care at an optimized cost and increased deployment speed.

the Results

Key Outcomes

Improved patient outcomes

Improved patient
outcomes

As a result of utilization of Navigating Cancer products and services

Creation of a next-gen digital companion

Creation of a next-gen
digital companion

Supported the creation of a next-gen digital companion for oncology patients built around a modern mobile-focused patient experience

digitization of Patient Home Care

digitization of
Patient Home Care

Supported the digitization of Patient Home Care instructions and incident management

Personalized patient engagement services

Personalized patient
engagement services

Implemented technologies to support the development of personalized patient engagement services, that allow for a more proactive care experience, resulting in improved medication adherence, time on therapy, and outcomes

ImproveD care delivery

ImproveD care
delivery

Developed customizable patient populations to tailor care to patients and improve the quality and cost of care delivery

Our methodology

how
we did it

Apexon works with companies across the digital lifecycle.

Go Digital
Go Digital

Accelerating the delivery of new digital initiatives with confidence

Be digital
Be digital

Creating the infrastructure and foundation to scale digital initiatives

Evolve Digital
Evolve Digital

Leveraging data and analytics to continuously improve digital delivery processes

The challenge
To leverage the latest digital technologies in patient oncology care

Navigating Cancer continuously strives to incorporate the latest technologies into its patient care platform to deliver the best patient experience in oncology care. By helping providers engage patients more effectively, Navigating Cancer’s solutions are able to improve treatment adherence, reduce care costs, encourage healthier behavior and produce better patient outcomes.

Navigating Cancer’s vision and strategy is dependent on data and the underlying infrastructure to capture, produce, and manage that data for the benefit of patients and care providers.

The Solution

Developing A pilot architecture blueprint

Apexon started by partnering with Navigating Cancer to define key business KPI’s and success criteria.

To achieve this, the Apexon Agile POD developed an architecture blueprint to launch and experiment with pilots and Proofs-of-Concept (POCs) in a rapid timeframe.

design a POC for a HIPAA-compliant Big Data platform with AWS

The Apexon POD helped Navigating Cancer design a POC for a HIPAA-compliant Big Data platform with AWS. The POC acted as the blueprint for Navigating Cancer as they built out their data warehouse and data lake infrastructure to leverage the benefits of Big Data.

ensure the solution design

Apexon also worked with Navigating Cancer to assess other data-specific tools like Matillion and Snowflake to ensure the solution design would meet both today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

Apexon’s Enterprise Data Analytics Platform

Apexon’s Enterprise Data Analytics Platform, which is designed for data scientists and analysts to develop machine learning (ML) modules and business intelligence applications, was leveraged to accelerate Navigating Cancer’s data platform design.

AWS services used:

Amazon S3
Amazon
S3

AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda

Amazon SQS
Amazon SQS

Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint