CUSTOMER CASE STUDY

CCMCN BUILDS A "HONEYCOMB COMMUNITY

DATA NETWORK" ON SNOWFLAKE TO SUPPORT
POPULATION ANALYSIS, CARE COORDINATION,
AND COMMUNITY DATA SHARING

SNOWFLAKE WORKLOADS USED

HEALTHCARE

COMPANY Colorado Community Managed Care Network

LOCATION Denver, Colorado

Colorado Community Managed Care Network (CCMCN) turn on and off data sharing with multiple parties as
leverages innovative technology to enable better needed. CCMCN also calculates financial incentives
outcomes across Colorado communities. and provides payment to healthcare and community
organizations to support their ability to participate in
As a federal-and state-funded nonprofit health the Honeycomb Community Data Network. These
information organization that is governed by Colorado’s community collaborations systematically address local
Federally Qualified Health Centers, CCMCN’s passion issues, such as reducing recidivism, improving maternal
is to help create a positive impact on reducing health and child outcomes, and improving a person’s experience
equity issues by applying innovative technology, data, when navigating the complexity of community services.
and payment systems to community collaborations. Safety net organizations across Colorado trust CCMCN’s
CCMCN’s value proposition is to identify the best- Honeycomb Community Data Network to securely access,
in-class technology systems available, integrate manage, and share information about patient populations.
them into a technology stack, and provide them as a
holistic solution to community organizations across STORY HIGHLIGHTS:
Colorado so that they can target specific interventions Snowflake Secure Data Sharing
CCMCN and its Honeycomb Community Data Network members
that address reducing disparities and improving rely on governed, secure data sharing to accelerate collaboration
equity in every community. CCMCN integrates and care coordination.
demographic, clinical, health information exchange, Optimized storage and elastic compute
claims, social, criminal justice, and public health data Snowflake’s near-infinite scaling of storage and compute enables
CCMCN to support more organizations and improvement projects.
to provide community-level analytics and proactive
community care coordination support. CCMCN’s Fully managed infrastructure
With Snowflake, CCMCN’s technical staff have more time to focus
“Honeycomb Community Data Network” that is on expanding the Honeycomb Community Data Network.
built on Snowflake allows organizations to maintain
control of their sensitive data while enabling them to

3 million 150
Number of Coloradans' data collected through Number of organizations benefiting from the
the Honeycomb Community Data Network Honeycomb Community Data Network
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CHALLENGE: CCMCN’s Honeycomb Data Network built on

Securely sharing healthcare data to support care coordination Snowflake creates a significant opportunity to
A growing number of communities in the United States are turning help organizations participate in community
toward improving coordinated care to control healthcare costs, programs, share data while staying in control,
reduce complexity, and improve patient experiences. Data is access external data, and get access to actionable
essential for coordinating care across multiple dimensions of information much faster than historically
health. However, sharing data between healthcare and possible. Snowflake allowed us to build the
nonhealthcare organizations presents numerous challenges. Honeycomb Community Data Network that
covers all of these scenarios.”
Responding to Colorado’s request for a Social Health Information
—JASON GREER,
Exchange (SHIE), CCMCN began developing the Honeycomb
CEO, CCMCN
Community Data Network. “We wanted to build infrastructure
that understands people’s needs, helps them get referred to
RESULTS:
the appropriate resources, and enables whole-person care
coordination across every segment of a community,” said Leveraging data to unify care coordination across Colorado
Jason Greer, CEO at CCMCN. A rapidly growing number of organizations across the state of
Colorado depend on CCMCN’s Honeycomb Community Data
Architecting an integrated, scalable technology network to connect Network, powered by Snowflake, to unify data, programs, and
Colorado’s service providers was not feasible with CCMCN’s strategies that support improvements in health equity and system
previous data environment. Ingesting, normalizing, and sharing data efficiency. Approximately 150 organizations with over 300
was time-consuming and operationally burdensome. “We needed locations statewide benefit from the Honeycomb Community
to securely share information with many different groups while Data Network, resulting in a growing ecosystem that contains
providing organizations the ability to maintain control over their data and insights on about 3 million people—approximately
data,” said Sandra Arreola, Data Engineering Director at CCMCN. 40% of Colorado’s population. According to Greer, “Snowflake’s
technology enables Colorado’s leadership to have confidence
SOLUTION: that CCMCN has developed a rapidly scalable, effective, and
smart solution for Colorado. It’s a system that works, and we feel
A platform for building a scalable community data network
Seeking a modern data environment to serve as the core of comfortable putting our reputation behind it.”
its Community Data Network, CCMCN turned to Snowflake’s
Data Cloud.  nowflake keeps us focused on supporting
S
communities instead of being completely bogged
CCMCN created a fully meshed network of private databases in
down by infrastructure. That’s a big deal.”
Snowflake to provide dedicated data spaces called “Private Data
Vaults” to individual organizations. Creating this data network in —JASON GREER,
CEO, CCMCN
Snowflake provided a secure, convenient solution for managing
each organization’s data. Snowflake Secure Data Sharing enables Advancing data-driven collaboration and care
organizations to govern their own data use and secures data Centralizing data in Private Data Vaults in Snowflake enables
exchange with their community partners to help accelerate care community organizations to collaborate more efficiently and
coordination and community interventions. According to Greer, effectively. For example, CCMCN worked with five health
“Organizations can load their data once into Snowflake, efficiently organizations to produce community analytics for their shared
use it in many different ways, and control data sharing—without Medicaid patient populations. Enriching shared populations with
depending on us.” social, mental health, and physical health indicators makes it easier
Snowflake’s optimized storage and elastic compute aligned with for organizations to understand patient journeys, coordinate care,
CCMCN’s vision of supporting significantly more organizations and identify areas for interventions. Analyzing cost differences
in their local collaborations in every community across the state. between shared and overall populations helps quantify the
Snowflake’s fully managed infrastructure freed up resources financial impact of coordinated care. Connecting the Honeycomb
for expanding CCMCN’s Honeycomb network of Private Data Community Data Network to a growing number of applications,
Vaults, complex data interfaces, integrated applications, and tools, and rules engines helps organizations proactively improve
interoperability tools. prenatal care, child wellness, recidivism, health equity, and cost.
“You start to uncover information about a community population
Snowflake’s extensive network of connectors, drivers,
that you couldn’t know before,” Greer said.
programming languages, and utilities helped CCMCN
optimize its data pipeline. “Moving to Snowflake, we were
able to normalize everything at the same time and query a
single data set. We know exactly how data is organized and
where it’s structured,” Arreola said.
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Affordably scaling to keep pace with growth FUTURE:

Building a scalable Community Data Network on the
Enabling data-driven care coordination in Colorado and beyond
Snowflake Data Cloud allows CCMCN to support more
Supporting more communities and organizations in Colorado
communities, organizations, and community improvements.
is CCMCN’s top priority, but a nationwide rollout of a data
According to Greer, “We can go from good intentions to
infrastructure like the Honeycomb Community Data Network is
better community outcomes faster.”
the next chapter. CCMCN is one of 49 Health Center Controlled
With Snowflake, CCMCN’s data engineers spend less time Networks (HCCNs) across the country. HCCNs are Health
performing repetitive tasks and waiting for queries to process. Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded networks
CCMCN’s data costs have remained relatively consistent despite that support the Federally Qualified Health Centers in every
significant growth in the Honeycomb Community Data Network. state. This network of health centers manages the healthcare
“We’ve found Snowflake to be better, cheaper, and faster across for one out of 11 people nationally and one out of three people
the board, which is pretty amazing,” Greer said. living in poverty. The HCCNs are developing a national data
strategy to connect all of the HCCNs together to focus on
For the first time, community organizations can improving outcomes on a national scale. This work is being
put data in a central location and control when done in coordination with HRSA and the National Association of
and how they want to allow third parties to access Community Health Centers (NACHC). CCMCN is interested in
their data.” working with any organization that shares their passion for equity
—JASON GREER, and reducing disparities across Colorado and nationally. According
CEO, CCMCN to Greer, “The goal is to get to enterprise scale as quickly as we
can. Without Snowflake, we just couldn’t do that.”

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