OncLive December 31, 2021
Oleg Bess, MD, explains why data quality is essential to improving the United States health care system.
Data quality is essential to improving the United States health care system. But what is data quality? Basically, it is about extracting value for patients, clinicians, and payers. High-quality data are both usable and actionable, whereas low-quality data, such as duplicate records, missing patient names, or obsolete information, create barriers to care delivery and billing/payment issues. These inefficiencies result in monetary losses across the health care system.
Unfortunately, health care has lagged virtually every other industry in leveraging data for strategic and operational advantage. This is not for lack of data—more patient health data are being captured today by medical equipment, digital devices,...
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