Actionable Intelligence in Healthcare: Transforming Data into Knowledge

Edited by Jay Liebowitz and Amanda Dawson, this comprehensive guide illustrates how healthcare professionals can convert data points into meaningful knowledge that can be used to take effective action. It highlights the importance of actionable intelligence in various healthcare scenarios, including informing health policymakers, providing insights to healthcare providers, assisting in clinical research, and benefiting healthcare data standards groups.

The book emphasizes that data alone is not enough; it must be transformed into information and then into knowledge. It discusses the structure required to achieve this transformation, including:

• Establishing research questions
• Data collection policies and data governance
• Principle-centered data analytics
• Understanding the “why” of classified causes and effects
• Narratives and visualizations to inform all interested parties

Actionable Intelligence in Healthcare is a crucial resource for clinicians and researchers, showing them how to formulate relevant questions, transform data into information, and apply this knowledge for the betterment of all. It demonstrates why this knowledge is meaningful and how it can be best utilized in healthcare settings.

Series: Data Analytics Applications

Pages: 293

Publisher: Auerbach Publications; 1 edition (April 24, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 149877993X

ISBN-13: 978-1498779937