Tapping into the value of health data through secondary use

Garrett, D.

Healthcare Financial Management Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 64(2): 76-83

2010


ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732
PMID: 20178244
Document Number: 638250
Hospitals and health systems have an important opportunity, today, to use clinical, financial, administrative, and self-reported data to improve health outcomes, reduce medical errors, predict health trends, and demonstrate the comparative value of drugs and treatments. Such secondary use of data requires that the data be standardized to be effective. Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System is an example of a larger healthcare organization that is pursuing a commercial venture to effectively use its vast data resources for research and other purposes in the larger healthcare marketplace.

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