RT Book, Section A1 Wall, Michael J. A1 Dudas, Joseph A2 Howell, Michael D. A2 Stevens, Jennifer P. SR Print(0) ID 1167644567 T1 Data in Healthcare: Where It Comes From, How It Is Structured, How to Govern It, and How to Get Your Hands on It T2 Understanding Healthcare Delivery Science YR 2020 FD 2020 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781260026481 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1167644567 RD 2024/03/29 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.