A Whole Person Approach to Care Starts with Healthcare Data

Healthcare generates a vast amount of data every second - an estimated 30% of the world’s data. This number is expected to reach 36% by 2025.¹

In addition, each year in the U.S., 27 million people move, 50,000 name changes are requested, and an estimated 21 million annual employment changes are reported.² With such a large volume of rapidly changing data, it’s no surprise that healthcare organizations face data management challenges.  

Inaccurate, outdated, duplicate, and incomplete patient and consumer data has a host of implications for: 

• Patient care outcomes 
• Health plan member outreach 
• New drug and therapy development 

Linking Data Sets Ensures a Complete Patient Health Record

Much of today’s patient and consumer data is housed across disparate hospital, clinic, and laboratory systems and contains missing, incorrect, and duplicate information. Further, valuable real-world data, like a person’s access to transportation or healthy food, is often missing and lacks connectivity to traditional healthcare data sets. Each of these data sets may have different identifiers for each patient, making it difficult to link them together for a complete patient health record. 

A Whole Person Approach to Care Requires a “Data-first” Strategy 

Amid rapid digital transformation, managing ever-increasing volumes of data is more challenging than ever. What served as a go-to solution in the past may jeopardize data integrity and security, lack scalability, and limit the ability to make data-driven decisions. 

A whole person approach to care requires a “data-first” strategy that gets to the heart managing the many aspects of a person’s healthcare journey. This white paper explores the data management challenges plaguing many healthcare organizations and offers a pragmatic approach to start to connect the dots to better for whole person care.

References:

1. Wiederrecht, PhD, Greg; Sasson, Darwish; Callaway, Andrew. The healthcare data explosion. RBC Capital Markets. 
2. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2023, Oct. 19 from https://www.census.gov/topics/population/