Healthcare’s Data Problem: So Much Data, yet So Little Data Fidelity
MedCity News June 5, 2024
As the volume of healthcare data accelerates, health system leaders must take critical steps to elevate the quality, completeness and accessibility of data they capture, manage and aggregate.
Healthcare data accounts for 30% of the world’s data, and that proportion will jump to 36% by next year. Yet healthcare leaders say just 57% of their data is used to make intelligent business decisions, in large part because they can’t count on the data to be accurate, a HIMSS survey found.
As the volume of healthcare data accelerates, health system leaders must take critical steps to elevate the quality, completeness and accessibility of data they capture, manage and aggregate. It’s a challenge that goes beyond an individual healthcare organization’s ability...