How to Approach Building a Healthcare Data Lake Roadmap

Collecting, storing, and using data produced by patients is a major challenge, and organizations often have data they can’t sort through and use efficiently. Healthcare data lakes contain valuable information that can be used to improve patient care, but organizing the data and making it available takes significant IT infrastructure planning. Organizations preparing to make collected health data actionable should create a roadmap that will enable them to leverage data to improve workflow and patient care. “The core data lake is really becoming an advanced clinical research information system to accelerate the speed to knowledge,” EMC Global Healthcare Business CTO Dave Dimond told HealthITAnalytics.com in a previous interview. “It’s very powerful technology that is a key part of retooling how providers are engaging patients at the point of care, for example, and how they are building a bridge between them. It’s about creating a learning health system.”