Healthcare IT News July 27, 2021
By participating in networks like the one launched by FDA to support medical device data surveillance, “health systems can learn from their peers,” one clinician at Philips explains in advance of his HIMSS21 talk.
With the digitization of hospitals and the growing body of EHR data, there is increased demand to generate knowledge from the available data and create innovative solutions to challenges in healthcare.
Unfortunately, major obstacles exist to achieve these goals, hindering the speed of healthcare innovation–significant barriers include the investment required to transform clinical data repositories into a suitable format for analysis and the dearth of available expertise in analyzing complex big datasets.=
Other obstacles include the need to respect and protect patient rights and privacy, the...