Economic Value of Data and Analytics for Health Care Providers: Hermeneutic Systematic Literature Review.

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)

The research question of whether data and analytics create economic benefits for health care providers cannot be answered uniformly. The results indicate ambiguous effects for EHRs, here representing data, and mainly positive effects for the significantly less studied analytics field. The mixed results regarding EHRs can create an economic barrier for adoption by providers. This barrier can translate into a bottleneck to positive economic effects of analytics technologies relying on EHR data. Ultimately, more research on economic effects of technologies other than EHRs is needed to generate a more reliable evidence base.

Keyphrases

big data
electronic health record
healthcare
artificial intelligence
machine learning
life cycle
data analysis
solid state