INTELLIGENT HEALTHCARE
How data can drive
efficiency and improvement
in the healthcare vertical
David Whitton, General Manager of Kodak Alaris for the
Middle East, argues that the revolution in data collection can
be the impetus behind identifying health trends, discovering if
treatments are effective, and making decisions based on fact.
H
ealthcare providers in the
Middle East that leverage
data driven from clinical and
business analytics are discovering new
opportunities to lower costs, provide
better care for patients and establish
health programmes.
The on-going challenge, however, is
in being able to effectively compile all
forms of structured and unstructured
health data into an analytics database.
Though clinical and business analytics
can lead to dramatic improvements in
patient care and business operations,
it can be challenging to extract
comprehensive information from
healthcare data in unstructured formats
such as email, faxes, text messages
and paper, which can limit analytical
outcome accuracy and usability.
Forward-thinking organisations are
using data classification, extraction
and management software to
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free unstructured data that was
formerly trapped, in order to realise
a 360-degree patient view from all
existing health data.
As health data continues to increase
in volume, variety and importance,
organisations looking towards the
future are implementing new strategies
for collection, grouping and analysis.
Smarter data can help healthcare
providers integrate and identify
correlations between previously
inaccessible data, available in real or
near-real time.
New methods of applying clinical and
business analytics give healthcare
practices a holistic view of patient care
and health trends. These analytics
allow healthcare providers to move
from basing business and patient care
decisions on hindsight toward making
decisions based on insight and foresight.
Having access to health analytics has
the following benefits:
“As health
data continues
to increase in
volume, variety
and importance,
organisations
looking towards
the future are
implementing
new strategies
for collection,
grouping and
analysis.”
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