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What Are The Challenges Faced By The Healthcare Sector In Digitalization Of Data
What Are The Challenges Faced By The Healthcare Sector In Digitalization Of Data

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1. Unstructured data sprawl: The healthcare industry generates massive sprawls of unstructured data generated on a daily basis. For instance, a single patient generates nearly 80 megabytes of data each year in imaging and EMR data. This data includes the PHI/PII and business-sensitive data that must be protected at all costs. In order to secure data, the unstructured data first needs to be structured, analyzed, and then categorized into hot, cold, ROT, or sensitive data. It is then possible to quarantine data with optimum access control and audit for security and compliance reasons, as well as archive it for cost savings.

2. Siloed data: 86% of CXOs agree that eliminating organizational silos is critical for the use of data and analytics in decision-making. The healthcare industry is inundated with data silos. It stores data in multiple data lakes leading to sprawls of redundant and duplicate data. Data lakes quickly become data swamps increasing storage costs, serving as a staging ground for malicious actors, endangering data privacy, and damaging a company’s reputation.

3. Lack of interoperability: Interoperability is the ability of information systems, devices, and applications (systems) to provide timely and seamless portability of information and optimize the health of individuals and populations globally, through access, exchange, and integration of data in a coordinated manner within and across organizational, regional, and national boundaries. However, today’s healthcare system is plagued by unconsolidated data from disparate systems, quite the opposite of interoperability. This means that patient data is often stored in separate systems and databases, making it difficult to get a complete picture of a patient’s health. Often, these systems do not communicate with each other, making it difficult for providers to provide holistic care, and researchers to access all of the data they need for clinical trials.

4. Security and compliance: With technological advancements, the healthcare industry faces a growing challenge in protecting patient information. Did you know the healthcare industry experiences the highest number of data breaches as compared to any other industry? What’s more alarming is that according to Kays Harbor, 34% of healthcare data breaches come from unauthorized access or disclosure and this unauthorized access has increased by 162% over the past three years. Even so, its growth is still staggering. The root cause – is unstructured data. IDC estimates that 80% of medical data remains untapped and unstructured, comprising typed and written text, radiological images, pathology slides, video, audio, streaming device data, PDF files, faxes, PowerPoint slides, and emails. Healthcare organizations, even those that integrated IT and electronic health records (EHRs) to increase interoperability, now have mountains of unstructured data that are hard to find, process, or use. Most high-profile data breaches involve the release of unstructured information containing personal information such as addresses, names, account information, and so forth.


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