BC Advantage - 2016 Issue 6

Maintaining Information Privacy in a Big Data Environment

It's becoming increasingly important for healthcare organizations to share, analyze, interpret and respond to patient health information. To make the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, for example, organizations are starting to exchange clinical, demographic, and sometimes financial information between providers and across settings. Similarly, they are leveraging data analytics to drive population health initiatives, which proactively identify individuals at risk for negative health events and transition them into care. Looking ahead as precision medicine becomes more of a reality, the industry will need to work closely with sensitive patient information, studying it to gain new insights into how...

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