Know Your Data and How You ’ ll Use It

Many healthcare organizations are taking a fresh look at their data, hoping to exploit it better for both clinical outcomes and operations. To the experts at Clearsense, the problems are not so much the shortage of data experts or lack of motivation, but rushing to use data without preparing it adequately or knowing what your business needs are. Charles Boicey, Chief Innovation Officer at Clearsense, calls on organizations to base decisions not just on traditional clinical data, but “everything that puts out a signal within the health care organization,” including devices, information from the home, and even social media. But as Kreg Hall, Chief Data Officer, says, the variety of such data makes it complex and therefore hard to integrate. He recommends, “Get the data into a streamlined, data-driven framework.” All three managers interviewed in the video below stress the importance of preparing data (also known as curation) before trying to use it. Furthermore, all data sources must be integrated so they can be shared and fed into analytics that combine data from many sources. Making data interoperable in this way, according to Chief Technology Officer Randy Fusco, is “table stakes”: In other words, don’t even start creating dashboards or analytical reports without making the data work together. Hall also emphasizes starting with business needs and use cases. You should use just the data you need to solve each problem. Boicey cites exa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Charles Boicey Clearsense Health Data Analytics Health Data Cleaning Health Data Quality Healthcare Analytics Healthcare IT Video Intervie Source Type: blogs