Data Warehousing
Healthcare organizations interact with massive amounts of data, from protected health information (PHI) to sensitive financial information. This data is at risk of exposure through human error, internal leaks, or attacks by hackers.
There's a direct link between achieving EMRAM Stage 6 or 7 and higher quality and safety results, explains Anne Snowdon, HIMSS Chief Scientific Research Officer after examining Leapfrog data from 2,000 U.S. hospitals.
A demonstration at the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase highlighted how the eHealthPass app and the International Patient Summary can help traveling Europeans quickly share their medical records to access needed care.
Healthcare organizations will need to go through a three-step process to achieve post-quantum safety: Discover, observe and transform, says Scott Crowder, vice president of IBM's quantum-safe adoption team.
Sam Amory, managing director for Dedalus AMEA, says more patients should be open to sharing their healthcare data so they can better understand their own health.
As healthcare organizations (HCOs) move from fee-for-service care models to value-based care (VBC) models, data interoperability can provide a holistic view of the patient and provide the best possible care.
Syapse consolidates and processes real-world patient data from numerous large health systems around the world providing oncology care. Insights derived from this data help those health systems improve their quality of care, strengthen the efficiency of clinical trials and add to the body of clinical knowledge that supports oncology care decisions.
External pressures like reimbursement reduction, clinical quality reporting mandates and price transparency rules further underscore the importance of bringing together diverse data sources.
Lisa Hanselmann, Inria's European project manager, talks about how the FLUTE project is building a GDPR-compliant federated learning platform to allow researchers to share both real-world and synthetic data on prostate cancer.
Julie Harris, Children's Health Alliance senior director of population health, explains how giving providers more information at the point of care by tracking 35 key quality measures reduces their burdens in meeting value-based incentive targets.