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John Koster1, Elizabeth Stewart, Eugene Kolker
1J. Koster is former CEO, Providence Health & Services, Renton, Washington, board member, Banner Health, Phoenix, Arizona, and board member, Sutter Health, Sacramento, California. E. Stewart is senior scientist, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington. E. Kolker is chief data officer, Seattle Children's Hospital, and lead, Seattle Children's Data & Analytics Team, Seattle, Washington; affiliate professor, Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education and Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; and adjunct professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University College of Science, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abstract:
Today's consumers purchasing any product or service are armed with information and have high expectations. They expect service providers and payers to know about their unique needs. Data-driven decisions can help organizations meet those expectations and fulfill those needs.Health care, however, is not strictly a retail relationship-the sacred trust between patient and doctor, the clinician-patient relationship, must be preserved. The opportunities and challenges created by the digitization of health care are at the crux of the most crucial strategic decisions for academic medicine. A transformational vision grounded in data and analytics must guide health care decisions and actions.In this Commentary, the authors describe three examples of the transformational force of data and analytics to improve health care in order to focus attention on academic medicine's vital role in guiding the needed changes.
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