Here are nine strategies for leveraging big data in the healthcare industry, according to "Transforming Health Care Through Big Data: Strategies for Leveraging Big Data in the Health Care Industry," a report by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation:
1. Implement a data governance framework.
2. Engage providers.
3. Foster competition and transparency.
4. Bake analytics into training.
5. Provide for flexibility in information transference.
6. When possible, choose in-house solutions over vendor-generated solutions.
7. Create simple, understandable tools, such as dashboards, for clinicians on the front lines to visualize incoming data.
8. Don't scale up, scale out.
9. Close the quality loop.
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1. Implement a data governance framework.
2. Engage providers.
3. Foster competition and transparency.
4. Bake analytics into training.
5. Provide for flexibility in information transference.
6. When possible, choose in-house solutions over vendor-generated solutions.
7. Create simple, understandable tools, such as dashboards, for clinicians on the front lines to visualize incoming data.
8. Don't scale up, scale out.
9. Close the quality loop.
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