Dive Brief:
- Defense giant Lockheed Martin has announced it is forming a new healthcare technology alliance. The alliance's founding members include: Cisco, Cloudera, Illumina, Intel, and Montgomery College. In addition, Big Cloud Analytics (BCA) will collaborate with Intel to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for the alliance.
- Solutions that use sensors and wearable devices will be incorporated with additional data streams to assist in collecting patient data and associated analytical platforms to better understand individual and population health.
- BCA's real-time analytics platform is powered by COVALENCE technology and runs on the Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Gateway. The platform is currently leveraged by insurers to measure the well-being of enrollees by, for example, looking at the environmental weather patterns' effects on behavior or correlations between activity and the quality of sleep.
Dive Insight:
According to Lockheed Martin, the solutions will be marketed to healthcare providers, payers, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies. The company is currently developing tailored solutions with Illumina for national-scale genomics programs.
"Through collaboration between health IT industry and academic partners, this team will develop and refine technologies that will help guide decisions for care, diagnosis and treatment of disease, while protecting critical health information," said Horace Blackman, vice president of Health & Life Sciences for Lockheed's Information Systems & Global Solutions, in a press release.
Lockheed employs 112,000 people worldwide and had net sales of $45.6 billion last year.