Health Data
Exploring a New Computing Model to Enhance Health Care Analysis
To battle the COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals need immediate access to relevant health data in order to inform clinical decision making, conduct timely research, understand trends, and inform response efforts.
The pandemic, though, highlighted a known shortcoming of our nation’s health data infrastructure. Decision makers, like health care providers, must rely on information reporting services outside the health care system to obtain real-time epidemiological data that, even then, only showed a limited picture.
Before the pandemic started, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to study how our nation’s health information exchanges (HIEs) could solve this problem. HIEs already perform the challenging task of aggregating, harmonizing, and reporting comprehensive data. The challenge for NIH was to find an approach where this data could be shared while adhering to existing privacy laws and protections.
If unlocked, the potential insight derived from these data could provide researchers and data analysts with new discoveries that could improve the care, treatment, and prevention of everything from cancer and heart disease to COVID-19.
Our efforts also aligned with the larger goals of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, to discover improved ways to facilitate the electronic exchange of health information.
https://arakmu.ac.ir/statistics/en/news/14241/exploring-a-new-computing-model-to-enhance-health-care-analysis
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