The Journal of mHealth Vol 2 Issue 4 (August) | Page 36

Transforming Patient Data into Actionable Insights

Transforming Patient Data into
Actionable Insights
Interview with Derek Gordon, General Manager of the Health Information Technology
Group at Healthline
As the healthcare industry continues to
shift towards value-based care models it
has become critical for healthcare enterprises to move beyond simply collecting
patient data. They must really understand that data and use it to better predict patient outcomes and more effectively target interventions. The problem
with healthcare information is that it is in
so many different sources that it makes it
difficult to develop a comprehensive picture of what all the data means.
According to IDC Health Insights, more
than 80 per cent of today’s health data
remains in unstructured formats, such as
free-text physician notes, patient histories and hospital admission notes.
Having the ability to aggregate and normalise valuable, unstructured information from disparate sources and then
combine it with structured data offers
the potential for a m ܙH