Fitfyles
A personal relationship with medical excellence

Headquarters
USA
Industry
Health Care
Technology Used
Scala, Akka, Spark, Angularjs, Play Framework, MLib, Elastic Search, Mobile App technologies (Ionic Framework, Apache Cordova)
Fitfyles is a service that is disrupting the health seeker and healthcare space. It allows the health seeker to get the ownership of records and their analysis back into their own hands instead of depending on clinics, hospitals, and individual doctors. The health seeker information usually is islands of unrelated information at various places. FitFyles not only aggregates that information at the click of a picture but also transcribes that data into usable information.
Challenges
There are over 50 million unique prescriptions in over 1.5 billion user-generated medical record entries.
Solutions
Knoldus built the pipeline in Apache Spark because of Spark's ability to seamlessly integrate different data sources, the availability of data processing libraries within MLlib and GraphX, fast performance to avoid slow table joins, and being able to significantly speed up operations that could be parallelized in a distributed fashion.
Results
The data pipeline with the analysis dashboard was built within 6 sprints and is a massive hit with the users of the platform.
Challenges
FitFyles wanted to take the next step with all the data it collected by offering the health seeker a comparison of their prescription with others of similar profile. They called it “Third Opinion” This would allow the health seeker to benchmark this prescription with their peers and allow them to seek a second opinion or ask more informed questions from their doctors if needed. The major challenges for this feature were:
Terabyte-scale data volume: There are over 50 million unique prescriptions in over 1.5 billion user-generated medical record entries. Need for fast processing performance: The prescription data required a quick matching against the drug database and other clinical conditions to eradicate false matches or recommendations. Diverse and complex analytics algorithm needs: As part of the verification process, the member-input data needed to be normalized (e.g. removal of stop words, lower-case conversion), de-duplicated, and aggregated by a wide array of machine learning algorithms.

Solution
Knoldus worked along with Fitfyles through their raw data. Knoldus built the pipeline in Apache Spark because of Spark’s ability to seamlessly integrate different data sources, the availability of data processing libraries within MLlib and GraphX, fast performance to avoid slow table joins, and being able to significantly speed up operations that could be parallelized in a distributed fashion. The data pipeline with the analysis dashboard was built within 6 sprints and is a massive hit with the users of the platform.
The data pipeline with the analysis dashboard was built within 6 sprints and is a massive hit with the users of the platform.