Himss Survey: Democratizing Data for Healthcare Success

With the widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs), medical devices and other information-technology repositories, the healthcare industry now has an abundance of health-related data at the ready.

But even as hospitals and health systems recognize the potential power of data analytics to make better clinical and business decisions, a majority of respondents state they lack confidence to engage in more complex predictive analyses.

The reason? It starts with an inability to access the data they require, a lack of trained staff to perform analyses and a need for more comprehensive self-service analytics tools. It’s important that healthcare organizations are able to leverage the data within them in order to inform how they can make a positive impact on the care they deliver to patients – as well as to how to run their organizations more efficiently and proactively.