Healthcare providers have reached a tipping point. As little as ten years ago, they struggled to collect accurate, actionable clinical data. With much of it locked away in siloed electronic health records (EHRs) or paper patient charts, the best most organizations could do was rely on claims data that was optimized for billing purposes—not patient care.
Now that the vast majority of hospitals and large physician practice groups are using EHRs, healthcare provider organizations face an entirely new set of challenges. Access to clinical and operational data is no longer the primary challenge—many of these organizations are drowning in data.
