In the past several years, billions of dollars have been invested in health IT and digital health, including dollars spent by healthcare organizations investing in electronic health record (EHR) systems, taxpayer dollars from government incentives and private investments by venture capital firms into digital health technologies. And all of this investment in health IT and digital health comes down to one thing—healthcare data.
As most healthcare organizations and providers are now adopting EHRs and other health IT tools, the main goal is to digitize health data, taking it from the traditional pen and paper to electronic files, to bring healthcare into the digital world.
