Becker's Healthcare August 21, 2019
Though the analysis and exchange of digitized medical data have the power to drive major progress in healthcare, actual transformation will not happen until data silos have been thoroughly broken down.
In an article for npj Digital Medicine, data scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health’s eHealth and Interoperability department outline the four areas of healthcare in which interoperability between data and IT systems is most important — and which have the greatest potential for transformative change.
Here are the four areas, and how each can benefit from increased interoperability:
1. Artificial intelligence and big data: When data is not siloed, algorithms can be trained using clear data structure and semantics and will therefore produce more valid results, resulting in...
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