A connected foundation: Preparing for the on-demand future of health care

Wed, 6/29/2016 - 3:39pmChad Johnson0 Comments var addthis_config = {ui_click: true,data_track_clickback: true,data_ga_social: true,data_ga_property: "UA-317164-6"}; 90% of the world's electronic data has been produced in the last 2 years. Think about that for a second. Remember microfiche? They were publications that were stored on film you viewed in the library on a giant viewfinder. When I was in college 20 years ago, I used to spend hours (yes, I studied) going through microfiche images of newspapers from the 1800s and the 1900s. Libraries used these collections of film because storing 100s of years' worth of publications in the shelves would have been physically impossible. That’s not data. According to IBM, humans create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data from a myriad of sources: sensors, social media, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals, to name a few. How many sources of health data does your organization contribute to this 2.5 quintillion each day? (I got a headache thinking of potential sources) And, how quickly is that data needed by other applications or caregivers? “Immediately” is probably the only appropriate answer when it comes to access to patient data. Hospitals and provider organizations are struggling to handle the massive amounts of health data being generated in a typical care environment. Think, just five years ago it was fairly innovative to simply connect the lab information syst...
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