There’s certainly no shortage of data in today’s health systems: The World Economic Forum has estimated that hospitals produce 50 petabytes of it every year. The problem is that up to 97 percent of that data goes unused, in large part because it remains in proprietary systems or other silos that leave it accessible only to the business units, or individual end users in some cases, that own it. As a result, clinical and operational leaders alike often act with only a fraction of the data that could lead to a more informed decision.
The modern data platform has emerged as a way to make data…
