Health care providers have the opportunity to innovate and find ways to utilize information to direct new services and operations, mainly due to the increasing influx of digitized patient records.
Health care is far more data driven than ever before because there are solutions that can capture key pieces of information, process it and display it in simplified interfaces that streamline the decision making process in regards to patient care. This is putting pressure on providers to capitalize on these new opportunities and they will have to do their part to ensure they are able to properly identify and manage the information they need for specific processes.
This was detailed in a recent Fierce Healthcare article. Andy Crowne of EMC Healthcare, the author of the article, said that while more patient data can provide new opportunities for innovation, it creates new challenges for data managers.
“The industry will have to leverage big data solutions that integrate fragmented healthcare information with existing patient health records to make data more meaningfully usable and enable providers to gain the actionable knowledge from it needed to make better clinical decisions,” Crowne wrote. “And access to all patient data will have to be streamlined across the continuum of care to support these efforts. To put it more bluntly, we will have to divine intelligence from patient data and visualize it to prevent ‘digital landfills’ that render it useless.”
A data management platform designed to collect and manage information from a variety of different environments will give providers that implement such a solution a competitive advantage.