HealthIT Answers June 21, 2022
By Jon-Michael Smith, Head of Healthcare & Life Science Analytics – Data Integration, Qlik
Hospitals generate an enormous amount of data daily, which can be turned into actionable insights that can better operations, save costs and overall produce better patient outcomes. However, if the data is siloed or housed in various conflicting formats, it can be outdated, incorrect or valueless once accessed by its user.
Since March 2020, these insights have been more important than ever, as hospitals deal with erratic patient volume, staffing and resource demand as the virus fluctuates and evolves.
There are several types of data that hospitals should be tracking, two of the most important being patient health data and claims data. In the current hospital...