Question

Examine one major challenge faced by researchers and practitioners with temporal healthcare data mining and propose a future research direction.

Answer 1

Ans)Data mining holds great potential for the healthcare industry to enable health systems to systematically use data and analytics to identify inefficiencies and best practices that improve care and reduce costs.

One major challenge faced:

- Organizations are applying techniques on handling the variances in clinical terminology and normalizing it into a single common verbiage or code of binding for analysis

That is a challenge because, as implied by the question, we haven’t really gotten to a point where we completely standardize our terminology. But Health Catalyst does supply a terminology that we use. So essentially Health Catalyst clients can understand that terminology, at least understand what the definitions that we use are. So it’s a good question and you know, I do think healthcare can steadily migrate to a common terminology over the next few years, though we’re not quite perfectly there yet.