Health care information system and method for transforming health care data with a transformation pipeline

A method for transforming health care data, the method comprising:

• defining a transformation pipeline comprising a plurality of ordered transform elements;
• ingesting health care data with the transformation pipeline in order to transform the health care data;
• tracking propagation of processed data representative of or associated with the health care data through the transformation pipeline, wherein tracking the propagation comprises identifying the one or more completed transform elements that have completed processing of the processed data and also identifying the one or more ongoing transform elements that have begun processing of the processed data but for which the processing is incomplete;
• and
• upon transformation failure that occurs:
• (1) after having completed processing of the processed data by one or more completed transform elements and also (2) after having commenced, but prior to having completed, processing of the processed data by one or more ongoing transform elements, recommencing transformation of the health care data with the one or more ongoing transform elements that had begun, but not yet completed processing when the transformation failure occurred without repeating the processing provided by the one or more completed transform elements,
• wherein the transformation of the health care data is recommenced after transformation failure with the one or more ongoing transform elements such that the health care data is completely transformed by being fully processed by all of the ordered transform elements.

A computer program product for transforming health care data, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code portions stored therein, the computer-executable program code portions comprising program code instructions for:

• defining a transformation pipeline comprising a plurality of ordered transform elements;
• ingesting health care data with the transformation pipeline in order to transform the health care data;
• tracking propagation of processed data representative of or associated with the health care data through the transformation pipeline, wherein the program code instructions for tracking the propagation comprise program code instructions for identifying the one or more completed transform elements that have completed processing of the processed data and program code instructions for identifying the one or more ongoing transform elements that have begun processing of the processed data but for which the processing is incomplete;
• and
• upon transformation failure that occurs:
• (1) after having completed processing of the processed data by one or more completed transform elements and also (2) after having commenced, but prior to having completed, processing of the processed data by one or more ongoing transform elements, recommencing transformation of the health care data with the one or more ongoing transform elements that had begun, but not yet completed processing when the transformation failure occurred without repeating the processing provided by the one or more completed transform elements,
• wherein the transformation of the health care data is recommenced after transformation failure with the one or more ongoing transform elements such that the health care data is completely transformed by being fully processed by all of the ordered transform elements.