CHAPTER 9
Data
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this chapter, the student will be able to:
• Appreciate the myriad and competing sources for healthcare data.
• Understand the size and exponential growth in healthcare data.
• Describe the complexities and challenges for healthcare data.
• Identify methods and priorities that health care may adopt to leverage both clinical and business data.
INTRODUCTION
The study of healthcare data has two dimensions. The first dimension is that of technical, pedantic knowledge. This technical dimension is paramount to data organizational bias, security, integrity of data, and system performance. Without highly skilled personnel, a poor infrastructure for data will prevent the true utility of these data from ...
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