Case Studies

• Client: U.S. Air Force (USAF)

  Situation/Challenges

  • USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (SAM) is conducting epidemiological studies in order to find protective measures for preventing disease
  • Analysis is consistently delayed by researchers’ inability to access and synthesize large amounts of diverse data needed to build a cancer study without IT assistance

  Key Benefits Provided by ASIFT

  • Helps researchers link multiple and disparate data sources; extracting data in a useful configuration and exporting it into statistical analysis packages
  • Designed for a wide range of research and health informatics users, including those without database or programming experience
  • Provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) that interacts with behind-the-scenes databases
  • Ensures ease-of-use, robust performance, data integrity, and security

  Impact/Results of ASIFT Solution

  • Expedites the path from data collection to data analysis, ultimately improving response time from study to implementation of disease prevention measures
  • Decreases development costs dramatically and improves time-to-market of research results exponentially by allowing researchers to efficiently manipulate, manage, and integrate data through reusable interface modules

  Testimonial

  “Their plans have been explicit, detailed, and concrete throughout the process. During the early phase, they took time to interview us to fully understand the requirements. They also established a formal process to communicate results and solicit feedback, comments, and suggestions. They put together the right mix of skill sets for our project: epidemiology, database design, and IT. As a result, they came out on top of the 23 companies that started the competitive process. We’ve been very pleased with their contributions, which have been innovative, effectively presented, and most beneficial relative to our objectives.”

  — U.S. Air Force