Data Analytics in Healthcare: Defining the Most Common Terms
Health IT Analytics August 23, 2023
As data analytics becomes essential for healthcare organizations, stakeholders need to understand the basic vocabulary related to the process.
Big data analytics play an increasingly significant role in improving care quality, patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and cost reduction for healthcare stakeholders. But navigating the healthcare data analytics landscape requires understanding a few key concepts.
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) characterizes data analytics as “analysis of the data in some way using quantitative and qualitative techniques to be able to explore for trends and patterns in the data,” noting that the concept is closely related to health informatics, which involves using that data to improve healthcare decision-making.
Health systems across the United States are at various points in their...