HIT Consultant September 28, 2022
A hot topic we see and hear a lot in healthcare is leveraging big data. Little known fact, we don’t yet have big data in healthcare, so the industry hasn’t had the opportunity to use big data. Healthcare has been in the “little data” game because much of the healthcare experience has yet to be digitized. In addition, interoperability issues leave much data siloed on disparate databases across the healthcare ecosystem.
This is all changing, and this change is accelerating. We’re quickly gaining the ability to un-silo and knit data together, as well as to collect and analyze large amounts of data from patients, providers, payers, labs and other healthcare stakeholders, not to mention digitized medical devices and mobile consumer...