Why Digital Health Will Need Big Data to Support Its Infrastructure

Healthcare IT leaders must lead the charge to deploy big data analyses across the continuum of community medical services.

Rapidly expanding medical needs and a whirlwind of technological innovations has created a mass of data that no healthcare organization can ever hope to manage manually, according to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Resultantly, a growing number of organizations recognize big data systems as a solution for maintaining information infrastructure.

By compelling lawmakers to consider informatics when making decisions, IT leaders can ensure that the medical field meets goals for deploying big data technologies and improving community health outcomes.

How Care Providers Use Big Data to Improve Public Health

One example of how organizations use big data to improve public health outcomes is the United States Department of Veterans Affair’s deployment of analytics to improve treatment outcomes and well-being for veterans.

In 2018, nearly 5 million veterans received VA disability. The information in their medical records can provide healthcare organizations with a wealth of data that can help improve the emotional and physical well-being of their fellow veterans. To do just that, the VA partnered with Alphabet to develop technological innovations that predict the likeliness of illness and injuries among veterans.

For many veterans, it’s ...


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