At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 million people in 300 communities across 250,000 square miles. In the process, we collect and store vast quantities of patient data — everything from admission, diagnostic, treatment and discharge data to online interactions between patients and providers, as well as data on providers themselves. All this data clearly represents a rich resource with the potential to improve care, but until recently was underutilized. The question was, how best to leverage it.
Making Better Use of Health Care Data
Lessons from the Sanford Data Collaborative.
March 12, 2018
Summary.
Health care organizations collect and store vast quantities of patient data — everything from admission, diagnostic, treatment and discharge data to online interactions between patients and providers, as well as data on providers themselves. All this data represents a rich resource with the potential to improve care, but until recently was underutilized. To tap this resource, Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated healthcare system, collaborates with academic partners leading the way in data science, from university departments of math, science, and computer informatics to business and medical schools on projects that could improve health care quality and lower costs.
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