Role of Big Data in Healthcare Sector Discussion
Role of Big Data in Healthcare Sector Discussion
When you wake in the morning, you may reach for your cell phone to reply to a few text or email messages that you missed overnight. On your drive to work, you may stop to refuel your car. Upon your arrival, you might swipe a key card at the door to gain entrance to the facility. And before finally reaching your workstation, you may stop by the cafeteria to purchase a coffee.
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From the moment you wake, you are in fact a data-generation machine. Each use of your phone, every transaction you make using a debit or credit card, even your entrance to your place of work, creates data. It begs the question: How much data do you generate each day? Many studies have been conducted on this, and the numbers are staggering: Estimates suggest that nearly 1 million bytes of data are generated every second for every person on earth.
As the volume of data increases, information professionals have looked for ways to use big data—large, complex sets of data that require specialized approaches to use effectively. Big data has the potential for significant rewards—and significant risks—to healthcare. In this Discussion, you will consider these risks and rewards.
To Prepare:
- Review the Resources and reflect on the web article Big Data Means Big Potential, Challenges for Nurse Execs.
- Reflect on your own experience with complex health information access and management and consider potential challenges and risks you may have experienced or observed.
BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 4
Post a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Then, describe at least one potential challenge or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described. Be specific and provide examples.
BY DAY 6 OF WEEK 4
Respond to at least two of your colleagues* on two different days, by offering one or more additional mitigation strategies or further insight into your colleagues’ assessment of big data opportunities and risks.
Sources available are below and attached, you can use your own as well just make sure it is legit
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nursing/big-data-means-big-potential-challenges-nurse-execs
ALSO I ATTACHED SOMEONE ELSE’S EXAMPLE POST SO YOU CAN HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT TO WRITE. THANKS.
I WILL POST CLASSMATES POSTS MONDAY/TUESDAY
THE MAIN DISCUSSION IS DUE BY WEDNESDAY
Post a description of at least one potential benefit of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Then, describe at least one potential challenge or risk of using big data as part of a clinical system and explain why. Propose at least one strategy you have experienced, observed, or researched that may effectively mitigate the challenges or risks of using big data you described. Be specific and provide examples.
The use of big data within the health care setting has been very beneficial through providing effective, improved patient outcomes, and organized documentation. “As data mining evolves, we have not only become able to navigate our data in real time but have also progressed beyond mere access to retrospective data with navigational improvements” (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2018). Big data helps to eliminate the cost and having access to the documents that need promptly. Staff can obtain patient information from a remote location at any given time. The information is up to date because of real-time documentation. This keep staff informed helping to provide safe and effective patient care. “Having good data is key to making effective changes” (Thew, 2016).
One challenge is the potential a preach of privacy with some many people having access to the data system. For example, within the community hospital, I am an employee at there was a recent high incident that an employee was injured off-site. There were over 20 employees terminated and an investigation done because they were looking into the employee’s file and not providing patient care.
Through my observation within the facility, employees that shouldn’t have access to patients on other floors that they don’t work on. Any medical staff with access to our EMR can look up see patients on every floor. I feel that you should only be able to access patient that are on the floor that you work. If there is a patient on another floor that you need to obtain their chart then you should have to enter their full name and date of birth to look them up. This would help eliminate the number of people that have access to the patient charts.
Protecting our patient confidentiality and keeping their information in the hand of employees providing direct patient care.
References
McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of
knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom [Video file].
Baltimore, MD: Author.
Thew, J. R. (2016, April 19). Big Data Means Big Potential Challenges for Nurse Execs.
Retrieved from Health Leaders: https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nursing/big-data-
means-big-potential-challenges-nurse-execs?page=0%2C1