DATA MANAGEMENT

DATA MANAGEMENT

Refers to the systematic process of acquiring, storing, and utilizing data in a manner that ensures its security, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT (HDM)

● aka Health Information Management (HIM)

● the practice of making sense of this data and managing it to the benefit of healthcare organizations, practitioners, and ultimately patient well being and health

● the systematic organization of health data in digital form

● This can be anything from Electronic Medical Records (EMR) generated as a result of doctor visits, to Electronic Health Records (EHR), to handwritten medical notes scanned to a digital repository.

FIVE HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT BENEFITS

1. Create a comprehensive view of patients, households, and patient groups

2. Improve patient engagement

3. Improve health outcomes

4. Business decision making

5. Analyse physician activity

THREE HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES

1. Fragmented Data

2. Changes to Data

3. Regulations and Compliance

FRAGMENTED DATA

● Medical data can manifest as structured data in spreadsheets or databases, visual content in the form of photos or video files, textual content in digital documents, physical copies in the form of scanned paper documents, or may be saved in specific formats like the DICOM standard, which is commonly employed for MRI scans.

● Data is extensively replicated, gathered on several occasions, and maintained in various iterations by healthcare practitioners, public health institutions, insurance entities, pharmacies, and patients themselves.

● The availability of a singular, definitive source of information pertaining to patient well-being is nonexistent.

CHANGES TO DATA

● The field of medical data is characterized by its dynamic nature, with frequent updates occurring in the names, occupations, locations, and conditions of both patients and clinicians.

● Patients undergo a multitude of diagnostic examinations and get a diverse range of therapeutic interventions throughout their medical journey, while the treatments and medications themselves undergo progressive advancements and modifications over the course of time.

● Emerging medical care modalities, such as telemedicine models, give rise to novel forms of data.

REGULATIONS AND COMPLIANCE

● Medical data is sensitive and must adhere to government regulations, such as the USA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

● The presence of data discovery issues and suboptimal data quality significantly hampers the ability to conduct necessary audits and comply with regulatory obligations, hence restricting the range of data that healthcare providers can leverage for the betterment of patients.

MEANING OF HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

STORAGE CONSIDERATIONS FOR HEALTHCARE DATA

1. Scalability

2. Compliance

3. Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA)

4. Data Resiliency and Protection

HYPERSTORE

- provided by Cloudian

- Exabyte-scale, on-premise, cost-effective storage platform for healthcare environments.

- It allows healthcare organizations to store, move and protect files across locations at up to 70% lower cost than disk-based storage.

HYPERSTORE PROVIDES THE FF BENEFITS FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS:

1. Cloud flexibility

2. Broad Integrations

3. Security and Compliance

4, Rich Metadata

5. Data Protection