Last August I wrote a blog about the data at the Beating Heart of Healthcare and introduced the concept of the healthcare data analytics hub. Frequent readers will remember that a healthcare data analytics hub provides a unified, cloud-based platform that supports access, enrichment, analysis, visualization, and reporting services to both automate and act…
A data warehouse is a centralized repository for the storage of data from one or more aggregated sources, updated immediately with real-time data yet retaining prior data for a more comprehensive dataset. The data in the data warehouse can be different types of data in various formats for disparate sources such as electronic health…
Healthcare companies are experiencing some trying times, made worse by the COVID-19 crisis. Competitors are now becoming partners, research institutions, and pharma companies are taking a more active role in monitoring patient care, and governments are closely monitoring statistics on patient diagnosis. Everyone in the extended healthcare industry is actively seeking to understand, plan,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fatal cracks in the way healthcare organizations share patient data. Actian DataConnect can help – supporting various healthcare industry standards and enabling rapid data interoperability interchange and transformation of electronic health records (EHR) between healthcare entities. All while supporting data quality and adhering to healthcare privacy and security regulations.…
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) play a critical role in enabling healthcare companies to share data by getting clinical information to where it is needed. HIEs gather electronic medical information or EMR (Electronic Medical records ) from hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers across a region so the data can be shared securely. This enables…
Providing high-quality patient care is a team effort. Data is what enables healthcare professionals to understand the full scope of issues patients are facing, share diagnostic data, coordinate care across providers to ensure the best quality treatment recommendations, and follow-up care. Over the past decade, healthcare companies have drastically expanded their use of technology…
Healthcare is a data-driven industry with data analytics needs that make “big data” seem tiny. For healthcare companies to operate efficiently, they need a high-power data engine to crunch the numbers, analyze the data, and get it into the hands of decision-makers quickly. The healthcare industry is the epitome of business agility, and data…
