ARIDHIA, the Scottish healthcare analytics company, has begun work with a US computer language specialist which aims to make clinical data easier to understand for practitioners.
It is the latest in a series of collaborations Aridhia has embarked on to bring its health informatics technology into medical practice.
Edinburgh-based Aridhia has teamed up with Boston's RStudio for the first time to develop a mini-app, aimed at fostering the rapid development of clinical solutions.
It effectively combines the power of R, the advanced analytics language, and the latest web technologies to allow healthcare and research organisations to better understand clinical data and inform patient care.
Chief executive Chris Roche said: "Within one of our collaborative workspaces, any member of a multi-disciplinary team, no matter what their role is, will now be able to easily interact with their data - and each other - without the need to understand advanced analytics.
The collaboration has been presented as a response to a regular breakdown in communication between data scientists who build analytic models and the clinical practitioners who use them.
It is hoped that the project will mean that prototype healthcare applications can now be developed and validated within hours, rather than weeks.
Mr Roche added: "This morning I asked one of our data scientists to upload a prescribing data set into a workspace. By lunchtime I had several mini-apps in place which I can use to visualise the data in multiple ways at an afternoon meeting.
"Previously this would have meant several different requests, and a long wait, but now I can interact with the data much more quickly - and without the need for advanced analytic skills."
A spokeswoman for Aridhia, formed by Scots entrepreneur David Sibbald, said the technology had not yet been put into practice and was still in the pilot stages.
Aridhia's technology was last month selected to provide the platform for a €6 million European dental healthcare project. That came after it signed a deal with Craneware in March for its analytics software to be distributed in the US.
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