Future of Intelligence for Healthcare: The Time Is Now

Future of Intelligence for Healthcare: The Time Is Now

This IDC Perspective provides a framework for the key characteristics of an intelligent enterprise: the ability to learn, the ability to synthesize information, and the delivery of insights at scale. While not explicitly addressed in this research, the issue of culture is also key to the transition to an intelligent enterprise. Executives in healthcare aspire to have their organizations be more data driven according to recent IDC Health Insights survey. Among the challenges noted are the lack of a clear understanding of what a data-driven organization looks like and how to transform organizations to become intelligent enterprises."To address the pressure to improve financial and clinical outcomes, healthcare organizations must leverage their most important asset, their data. The years of wrangling data across a heterogeneous IT environment provide many healthcare organizations with complete picture of the patient/consumer. Healthcare organizations must now transform their culture and technology infrastructure from reporting via tables and graphs to real-time delivery of insights that drive decision making. This document is the first step for healthcare organizations to understand what capabilities are required to be an intelligent enterprise," says Cynthia Burghard, research director, IDC Health Insights.

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