TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Data in Healthcare: Where It Comes From, How It Is Structured, How to Govern It, and How to Get Your Hands on It A1 - Wall, Michael J. A1 - Dudas, Joseph A2 - Howell, Michael D. A2 - Stevens, Jennifer P. Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Understanding Healthcare Delivery Science AB - In the healthcare of today, we have a parallel universe of data. Increasingly, everything we do has a data trail, with more and more records to be kept and knowledge to be gleaned. However, some activities still aren’t recorded electronically. For those still-untracked activities, we often spend extensive resources to bring them into the larger data matrix. We believe that more data will catalyze the data-information-knowledge process and knowledge holds the promise of improved outcomes. Healthcare data are among the most complicated in the world. When handled improperly, they can dangerously misdirect patient care and resources. On the other hand, when done well, healthcare analytics (the output needed to drive analysis and insight) opens a window so we can understand and improve performance—and see into the future. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1167644567 ER -