In a healthcare industry where data is a valuable strategic asset – often zealously hoarded and protected – Benson S. Hsu, MD, vice president, enterprise data and analytics at Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Sanford Health, has lately been taking a much more liberal approach to sharing data sets with other organizations the community.
Sanford, a sprawling integrated delivery system based the upper Midwest (but with clinics as far away as California and Oklahoma), shares certain clinical, claims, financial, and operational data with outside researchers – who then put it to work developing analytic apps that in turn help the health system with quality improvement, cost efficiencies, patient engagement and more.
