September 17, 2021: What are the characteristics of a high functioning healthcare system with regard to data and analytics? How do you provide data to third parties? How do you protect that data? How do you anonymize that data? How do you ensure that you're not allowing it to just run loose in the wild? Paula Edwards is Consultant, Analytics & Data Governance Practice Leader at Himformatics, an advisory company who works with health systems to make sure they're getting the most value out of their technology and data investments. How do you design systems that have people and technology working together? Who participates in data governance? What does an effective data literacy program look like? And what trends are we seeing with academic medical centers? 

Key Points:

• What is human centered design? [00:10:45]
• To a certain extent, the academic medical centers are driving the industry [00:18:06]
• There’s so many models for organizing analytics. It's mind boggling. [00:28:05]
• At its very nature, healthcare data and especially clinical data is just messy [00:33:10] 
• There's a lot going on in the world of natural language processing [00:36:00]
• Most studies evaluating AI in radiology didn’t validate the results - Health Data Management
• Design Characteristics of Studies Reporting the Performance of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Diagnostic Analysis of Medical Images
• Himformatics