From Data Modeling To Data-Driven Decisions

“Health care is the most information intensive industry in the economy, but it uses IT the least.” – David Cutler, Harvard Kennedy School economics professor

I think that executives of health and human service organizations think they spend a lot of time with data, but it's all relative. Generally, the industry-wide and enterprise-wide data in the health care field is pretty limited – in quantity, quality, and utility. And, the “time with data" that executives refer to, is the time trying to get electronic health records (EHRs) up and running, or figuring out web optimization, or how to integrate . . .