How to Make Sense of Hospital Data

You could think of a hospital as a big cruise liner, afloat on a sea of data, charting and correcting course as the captain and crew read the shifting wave patterns, monitor their instruments, pump the bilge ... Put more prosaically, hospital executives have an awful lot of numbers to navigate while checking their dashboards and generating feedback internally and externally. Artificial intelligence technologies like machine discovery, machine learning and natural language generation are revolutionizing the performance of those tasks. It wasn't until the mid-1990s that the notion of comparing an organization's performance with results achieved by other organizations in the same business even entered the health care mindset. Today, the search term "hospital benchmarking" turns up 5,636 PubMed entries. Type those words into a search engine and you'll be deluged with URLs.