Healthcare Data Integration Cutting Room Floor: Cluttered with Valuable Unused and ‘Laundered’ Data – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/14 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Bill Fox (@FoxBigData) of @MarkLogic on the topic of “Healthcare Data Integration Cutting Room Floor: Cluttered with valuable unused and ‘laundered’ data.”

Improving healthcare data integration, flexibility, agility and time to market for development and implementation starts with ingesting data and ends with analytics and insights-an operationalize before you analyze best practice approach.

How healthcare data is captured, represented, secured and made available to the application services intended to support the value-based models of care everyone expects to improve patient outcomes, while addressing escalating costs, is a fundamental necessity for digitally transforming today’s healthcare organizations.

Thankfully, operational data integration technologies have rapidly emerged that address and support the critical functionality healthcare providers, health plans and ancillary organizations need to support the healthcare consumers and patients, and effect true health care outcome improvement and cost containment challenges.

The intention of this chat is to share ideas, facts, thoughts, and opinions on the theme of whether the legacy technology that still dominates most IT shops in healthcare supports reform and innovation initiatives or not. Quite simply, are we leaving too much valuable, unused and ‘laundered’ healthcare data” on the ‘Cutting Room Floor’ of the very healthcare organizations we’re all counting on to best leverage that data? Our hope is that this chat helps to surface how healthcare organizations – providers, payers, 3rd parties and vendors – can get the most from our respective investment in our healthcare data platforms.

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This Week’s Topics
T1: What’s your biggest, most expensive health data “hairball” or pain point in combining data across domains or multiple systems? #HITsm

T2: What is the most valuable data that’s not being used today in #healthcare due to cost / complexity of integration? #HITsm

T3: What data impacts #healthcare consumer / member / patient experience and service the most? #HITsm

T4: 80% of all data is unstructured. What types of unstructured data can help improve service, outcomes & lower costs the most? #HITsm

T5: Why should scarce resources be invested in analytics before combining, enriching, harmonizing and operationalizing data first? #HITsm

Bonus: Why do firms continue using legacy ETL & tools vs adopting a “next gen” data integration platform approach? #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
7/21 – Meeting the Patient Where They Are
Hosted by Melody Smith Jones (@MelSmithJones) from HYP3R

7/28 – How Does Age Impact Patient Satisfaction & Provider Switching?
Hosted by Lea Chatham (@leachatham) from @SolutionReach

8/4 – TBD
Hosted by Alan Portela (@AlanWPortela) from Airstrip

8/11 – TBD
Hosted by TBD

8/18 – Diversity in HIT
Hosted by Jeanmarie Loria (@JeanmarieLoria) from @advizehealth

8/25 – TBD
Hosted by TBD

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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