Better Healthcare Outcomes Through Digital Health Real-World Data

September 13, 2022

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The boom in digital health solutions has caused an explosion in real-world data (RWD) that is full of potential insights that could improve outcomes for patients. Gleaning these insights is neither easy nor straightforward; careful consideration must be undertook to ensure that data is accurate, organized, representative of the population, and correctly analyzed. A new Harvard Business Review article examines this topic and provides patient experiences.

According to Harvard Business Review, “Figuring out how to develop systems to use a growing quantity and variety of digital information is perhaps the most important, and formidable, health care mission of our time. Since the 1990s, our organization, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has been using data to measure and improve health care quality, originally to accredit health plans and more recently to gauge the performance of providers. When the NCQA began, the challenge was to compile enough data and to make inferences to fill in the blanks where there wasn’t any good information. Now the challenge is the overwhelming amount of data that needs to be mined for its essentials. But NCQA’s mission remains the same: to put data to work to increase the effectiveness of the resources devoted to health care.”

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