PubMed · 10346190
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C M Kozma. 1999. Turning data into information.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10346190/
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In recent years, medical professionals are witnessing an explosive growth in data collected by various organizations and institutions. At the same time, the ongoing developments of networking technologies provide doctor with the capability to access these data across the boundaries of interconnected computers. In this paper we present a medical data warehousing methodology that aims to use data semantics to regroup and merge patients' medical data from different health information systems, which may be autonomous and heterogeneous. The proposed solution takes into account European laws concerning the security and anonymity of personal data.
The Australian investment in technological support for the collection and analysis of hospital data has paid off in the creation of data depositories that can be used for system and policy analysis. Yet the inquiries that would inform decision for quality and efficiency improvement are made at the operational levels where there has not been equivalent investment in developing human capacity. This article suggests strategies and methods for using standard healthcare information that is now so much more readily available.