Using Health Care Data

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Using Health Care Data
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Executive summary
Health data is of great importance in healthcare organizations as it helps the organizations
to know the health status of their patients which makes it easy for them to offer treatments to the
appropriate people when needed. Health organizations need to have the health data of not only
the patients but also for the healthy people since they may need to offer some medications such
as vaccinations to the healthy people and having the data of the healthy people prior to giving the
medications will help them to know the best medications to give. With the health data, the
healthcare organizations need to store the data well to avoid leakage to the unauthorized people
since health data is very crucial and sensitive and should not be disclosed to the unauthorized by
any means. The healthcare organizations analyze their data regularly to understand the data well
and these help the organizations to understand the health status of the people especially their
patients’ well and offer the most appropriate care and treatments to the patients according to their
health demands. In this paper, we shall analyze the health data of UTS hospital to understand the
health status of the patients well and make some meaningful inferences from the analysis.

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Using Health Care Data
Introduction
Hospitals and the other healthcare organizations handle huge volumes of healthcare data.
These healthcare organizations must always be very keen when handling and storing healthcare
data since healthcare data is very crucial and sensitive and need to be handled well as required
and by the right personnel to avoid loss, leakage to the unauthorized people, among many other
problems which may arise if the data is not handled and stored properly (Yue et al., 2016, p.218)
The healthcare organizations greatly need the healthcare data for their patients as they use the
data to keep track of the health conditions of their patients and know the right treatments and
medications to offer to help the patients to recover from the illnesses (Wager, Lee, and Glaser,
2017). The healthcare data of the healthy people is also required by the healthcare organizations
as the healthcare organizations might need to offer some public medical services such as public
vaccination or immunization and with the healthcare data of all the people (both the patients and
the healthy people), the healthcare organizations will be in a better position to know which
treatments and medications to offer to which people which will not overreact with their bodies
(Hernandez, 2017, pp.186-194). We have some bodies which are very sensitive to some
medications and these medications may cause allergy or other health problems to the people and
therefore, the health practitioners must always be very careful when offering treatments to
different people (O'Brien, 2016). Healthcare organizations do a detailed analysis of the
healthcare data they collect from their patients and the other healthy people to have a deep
understanding of the data and for them to know the best ways to use the data which will be of

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great benefits to the patients. The main aims/objectives of this paper are to discuss healthcare
data in details and study its use in healthcare organizations and see some of the ways followed by
the healthcare organizations to analyze the healthcare data for them to understand the data in a
better approach. This discussion will help us to understand how effective and efficient the
current methods of health data collection and data analysis in hospitals are in the modern field of
healthcare. The paper will also discuss the main antenatal health problems and some
interventions which can be implemented to address the problems. This whole discussion will be
very helpful in answering our main research questions which are:
Are the current methods of data collection, analysis, and usage employed by the modern
healthcare organizations effective and have they helped to improve the overall efficiency or
performance of the medical field?
Are antenatal or neonate health problems common problems in hospitals?
What types of interventions should be taken to address these health problems?
Background/Literature review
As already mentioned, healthcare data of the patients and the healthy people is of great
importance in healthcare organizations. The healthcare organizations are ever collecting the
healthcare data and storing the data as required for their own benefits and for the benefits of the
patients and the healthy people whose data is collected. Having the health data of the patients