Find new ways to collaborate and innovate
The irony is real. As the health care system generates more data, it becomes harder to put the information to use. Despite this, the potential benefits to patient outcomes and operational efficiencies realized from mining insights within the data are widely acknowledged.
The question is how do we move from “What if…?” to “Well done!”?
Understanding your patient population — and how it compares to nationwide benchmarks — are big first steps. But two hurdles exist:
- Investing in the technical infrastructure to make data easier to use by your organization’s researchers
- Overcoming data silos that inhibit holistic views across geographies and sectors of health care
To address these issues, health system leaders are increasingly forming collaboratives that connect their researchers with curated, ready-to-use data sets.
