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Turning Around the Ship of U.S. Healthcare in Mid-Ocean: What Are We Learning about Mastering the Data Integration Challenges?

Healthcare Informatics: As HCI Senior Contributing Editor David Raths noted in his September 8 report, a recent survey of 69 accountable care organizations (ACOs) by the eHealth Intiative and Premier, Inc. found that ACOs continue to struggle with accessing data from outside their organizations, and with integrating data from disparate sources.

The survey, conducted in August, “asked respondents about the type of data they collect and what they are using it for. The survey found that ACOs most often analyze claims data (96 percent) and clinical data (79 percent), followed by administrative data (52 percent), disease registry data (39 percent), and patient-reported data (38 percent). They reported working to identify gaps in care (84 percent); identify outliers in cost/utilization (80 percent); compare clinician performance (77 percent); measure/report on quality (77 percent); and proactively identify risk (68 percent),” Raths reported.

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