DEC, 2019 - JAN, 20208 IN MYV EWI've yet to meet a person who pursued a health career because they're passionate about data entry. The digital age, however, presents a vision where the accurate recording of information leads to the efficient and safe operation of hospital systems, and ultimately better patient care. This vision implies all recorded data will be accessible, but in reality, this is difficult to realise. With the volumes of data generated within NSW Health, accessing and exploring it with existing tools can feel like panning for gold with a thimble. Such a limitation can disincentivise quality data entry. Electronic medical record (EMR) systems do an exceptional job of filing and retrieving individual patient records. Viewing an electronic record concerning critical patient information at 3 am, when the paper-based records office is closed, can be the difference between life and death. However, there is no out-of-the-box functionality to assemble a multi-patient view, across complex patient journeys, and threaded through multiple clinical and corporate systems.Traditional solutions to this problem revolve around the construction of a single monolithic enterprise data warehouse. However, the evolving nature and complexity of health information make this prohibitively challenging to achieve. So much so, that not a single successful case study exists within the health domain globally. That said, targeted data warehouses do have their place. Outcomes data collected UNLOCKING EVER-INCREASING VALUE FROM NSW HEALTH'S PETABYTES OF DATA BY LACHLAN RUDD, DIRECTOR, DATA & ANALYTICS, EHEALTH NSWLachlan Rudd
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