TY - CHAP
T1 - Utilizing Health Analytics in Improving the Performance of Hospitals and Healthcare Services
T2 - Promises and Challenges
AU - Khalifa, Mohamed
AU - Househ, Mowafa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Health informatics is heading towards utilizing big data analytics, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence in exploring current and potential healthcare challenges and recommending evidence-based solutions to enhance strategic effectiveness and improve operational efficiency. We need to explore various advantages and potential gains of utilizing health analytics in addition to discussing different types of challenges and methods of overcoming these challenges in implementing and utilizing such resources. We conducted a focused review of literature to classify the advantages of implementing and utilizing health analytics. Health analytics challenges and critical success factors were also examined and categorised based on qualitative thematic analysis. Through examining sixty eligible studies, our focused review of literature identified three ways to classify advantages and potential gains of utilizing health analytics; based on healthcare levels, aspects, and dimensions. We also identified three main categories of challenges of health analytics: human, technological, and organisational. Using health analytics, several healthcare aspects can be improved, such as patient safety, healthcare effectiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Health analytics implementation is faced with various technology, human, and organization related challenges. The non-technological challenges are more difficult and need more time to be resolved, including the development of a clear vision to guide implementation projects.
AB - Health informatics is heading towards utilizing big data analytics, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence in exploring current and potential healthcare challenges and recommending evidence-based solutions to enhance strategic effectiveness and improve operational efficiency. We need to explore various advantages and potential gains of utilizing health analytics in addition to discussing different types of challenges and methods of overcoming these challenges in implementing and utilizing such resources. We conducted a focused review of literature to classify the advantages of implementing and utilizing health analytics. Health analytics challenges and critical success factors were also examined and categorised based on qualitative thematic analysis. Through examining sixty eligible studies, our focused review of literature identified three ways to classify advantages and potential gains of utilizing health analytics; based on healthcare levels, aspects, and dimensions. We also identified three main categories of challenges of health analytics: human, technological, and organisational. Using health analytics, several healthcare aspects can be improved, such as patient safety, healthcare effectiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Health analytics implementation is faced with various technology, human, and organization related challenges. The non-technological challenges are more difficult and need more time to be resolved, including the development of a clear vision to guide implementation projects.
KW - Artificial intelligence
KW - Big data
KW - Business intelligence
KW - Health analytics
KW - Healthcare performance improvement
KW - Hospitals
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-67303-1_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-67303-1_3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85112518849
T3 - Lecture Notes in Bioengineering
SP - 23
EP - 39
BT - Lecture Notes in Bioengineering
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -