
The Problems with Healthcare Data and How to Manage Them
People who work with data tend to think in terms which are very structured and linear. They prefer to have B to follow A and C to follow B not just sometimes, but pretty much all of the time. But, healthcare data simply doesn’t work that way. Healthcare data can render linear analysis useless as it is both diverse and complex. There are several characteristics of healthcare data which make it both unique and often difficult to work with. Let’s discuss just a few of those characteristics.
Multiple Places
Healthcare data tends to be found in a variety of different places. The data tends to come from all over an organisation, from EMRs or human resources software to varying departments such as oncology, radiology or pharmacy. Compiling all of this information into one single central syste...