DataOps can provide a Data Cure for healthcare organizations

Data is of limited value to a healthcare provider if there is no understanding of its nature or potential application.

- Charlie Farah

Data must be analyzed regularly to uncover new insights and gaps. When access is made easier in a governed approach, individuals gain greater knowledge about the available information and how best to use it, helping to build their data literacy skills.Healthcare organizations must bring together the teams working and using data through the adoption of modern technologies. This is how DataOps was born, to fill in the gap.

Data is the lifeblood of every hospital and healthcare organization. Without it, doctors can’t access updated patient records for proper treatment; billing departments are unable to correctly process insurance claims; and research teams are limited in their ability to uncover new findings. Today there are issues with both data availability and access to the right information, for all users in a governed HIPAA compliant structure, that keeps healthcare organizations from effectively scaling the use of data to impact lives.

Data analytics is often discussed as a key element because of its potential to uncover insights that improve operations while also increasing care quality and efficiency. In today’s world of tight budgets and rising costs, its essential that organizations maximize staff time allocated to care and minimize costs. However, even if a hospital provides access to all its data, a lack of data literacy – an individual’s knowledge on how to use and analyze data – could limit data’s effectiveness towards improving care and operations.

Healthcare organizations must find a data cure that will address both data challenges: access to and use of information. The emerging methodology known as DataOps addresses both issues.