CHAPTER 8

Best Health Data Management Practices

Health data management process starts from data creation and collection to its retrieval and archival. This chapter describes strategies related to parts of data management process—data collection and data analytics.

At present, the missing piece in HDM is defining the data needs before data collection stage. The initial and crucial step of data management is to define:

The data sets that need to be collected

The requirements of data types

The data sources from which data sets need to be collected.

Data collection is one of the first crucial steps which need strategy. Strategic data collection can save millions of dollars and can save months and years of time.

Data Collection

Throughout ...

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