We talk a lot about the importance of data governance here at Dimensional Insight. So when I read the Aberdeen research paper, “Smarter Healthcare: Analytically Fit, Operationally Efficient,” I was psyched to see actual stats on how important data governance is to hospitals and health systems.
Check out this gem from the report:
Top healthcare organizations are 3 times more likely to use data governance policies.
Whoa – that’s pretty big! If you want to dig a little deeper into the numbers, they show that 68% of top healthcare organizations have established policies in place for governing/controlling end-user data access, while only 24% of low-performing healthcare organizations have them.
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Why is this all important?
Quite simply, because doing healthcare business intelligence and analytics is wicked hard (as we like to say here in Boston). The complexity of healthcare data is mind-boggling, technology is often outdated, and enacting change can be nearly impossible. Add to that pressures of regulations and oversight, and it’s easy to see why healthcare organizations feel as though they’re drowning in data, but can’t do anything valuable with it.
However, if health systems want to increase operational efficiency and ultimately improve patient care, it’s becoming increasingly clear that good analytics is key to success. We’ve discussed this in our previous posts in this blog series:
- How Healthcare Can Move Away from Being Data Rich, Insight Poor
- 5 Ways Healthcare Organizations are Deriving Insights from Big Data
Become a smarter healthcare organization
So what are the smartest hospitals and healthcare systems doing when it comes to analytics? Learn more in this in-depth research paper by Aberdeen, “Smarter Healthcare: Analytically Fit, Operationally Efficient”. This paper will provide you with:
- The imperative for analytics
- Defining characteristics of top performers
- A healthy prognosis for the analytically inclined
Download this 9-page paper now to learn how to do smarter healthcare analytics.
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Kathy started her career in television news writing and producing. She then worked at a public relations agency and as a freelance writer before joining Dimensional Insight in 2013.
Kathy has presented at several events in both healthcare and wine & spirits, including the Healthcare Innovation Summit, the Healthcare IT Marketing & PR Conference (HITMC), and the WSWA Women’s Leadership Council (WLC) Conference. Kathy is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and a member of Women of the Vine & Spirits.
She is also host of the Smarter Healthcare Podcast (www.smarthcpodcast.com) and is a member of the Forbes Communications Council.
Kathy holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Boston University.
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