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Data-Driven Leadership in Healthcare

A healthcare leader's role in supporting data driven decision making includes developing an effective data collection system, employing technology to enhance data analysis, and creating an environment for new data-focused innovations. Using data analytics can help improve healthcare outcomes through predictive modeling. Some challenges in using big data are correctly syncing and structuring data, data mismanagement, storage issues, and potential breaches, which could lead to misinterpreted data if not addressed properly. Ethical concerns also exist around data tampering affecting the interpretation of information.

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Data-Driven Leadership in Healthcare

A healthcare leader's role in supporting data driven decision making includes developing an effective data collection system, employing technology to enhance data analysis, and creating an environment for new data-focused innovations. Using data analytics can help improve healthcare outcomes through predictive modeling. Some challenges in using big data are correctly syncing and structuring data, data mismanagement, storage issues, and potential breaches, which could lead to misinterpreted data if not addressed properly. Ethical concerns also exist around data tampering affecting the interpretation of information.

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What is a healthcare leader’s role in supporting data driven decision making?

I believe that data should be at the core of every strategic decision-making process. In

medicine, where innovations are almost daily as a healthcare professional, one needs to keep in

touch with the changing dynamics, and data plays a pivotal role in ensuring that. Data provide

valuable insights that can help one deal with various medical decisions. Insights are vital for

developing action plans and planning for the future (Milovic, 2012). As a healthcare leader,

some of the roles that could prove consequential in developing a data-driven decision-making

structure include:

 Develop an effective data collection system where all the necessary data can be gathered

centrally to be analyzed.

 Employing technology in the data collection and analysis to enhance the speed and

reliability of data used to make decisions.

 Create a conducive environment for developing new technologies and innovation to

facilitate the collection of novelist data patterns.

The use of data-driven technology-focused healthcare provides limitless possibilities in the

delivery of top-notch healthcare. For instance, predictive analytics can be used to model

treatment recommendations designed to improve health outcomes in the remotest of places

(Albright, & Winston, 2014).

What are some challenges and ethical concerns that might exist in the use of big data for

decision making?

Some of the challenges and ethical concerns that might exist in using big data for

decision-making are syncing information, importing the structure of data incorrectly,


mismanagement data, storage, and breaches. These are all significant concerns. Each challenge

all plays an essential capacity in the implementation to provide platform users to deliver answers.

The concerns are significant because they can have a negative impact. If the data is tampered

with, the information may be misinterpreted (Milovic, 2012). For example, if data is

implemented into a data system and syncing transport incorrectly, the data obtained will be

misinterpreted. No one will know about the mistake because no one is looking for it. A few

months ago, I was hired by a law firm for data entry. The supervisor stated, "We use a system

that transported data into the system we will use, and we don't know how the number derives.

She asked that we put the numbers as we see fit. I was puzzled. Although this information was

for the law office, this is an excellent example of deception or misrepresentation (Albright, &

Winston, 2014).
References

Albright, S. C., & Winston, W. L. (2014). Business analytics: Data analysis & decision making.

Cengage Learning.

Milovic, B. (2012). Prediction and decision making in Health Care using Data Mining.

International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS), 1(2).

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