Health Exec: 97% of Healthcare Data Isn’t Used
MedCity News October 30, 2023
The vast majority of healthcare data isn’t used because it’s difficult to work with, according to Beth Andrews, chief digital health officer of life sciences and healthcare at Dell Technologies. Andrews made these comments during a session at the MedCity News INVEST Digital Health conference.
Data is vital in advancing healthcare, as it helps providers understand patients better and make more educated decisions on their care. However, the vast majority of health data isn’t used, according to one healthcare executive.
“It’s difficult to connect, curate, normalize and work with data keys. Think of monitoring patients, there’s data in the EHR, you can run AI on that data. But what you’re not seeing or what you’re missing there is, for example,...