A graduate of Arizona State University with a master’s degree in health services administration, Gregory “Greg” Angle serves as the president of HCA’s Mountains Division, a system of hospitals and clinics in Idaho, Utah, and Alaska. Additionally, Greg Angle is a longtime member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), a professional organization devoted to equipping health care leaders with the tools and knowledge they need to lead thriving facilities committed to patient health.
ACHE recently tackled the topic of a universal data system among hospitals nationwide and the efforts that government agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are taking to help make it a reality. The NIH has developed a Strategic Plan for Data Science that has the goal of creating a standardized system of handling all aspects of the raw data gathered in the process of biomedical research, which will add more overall usefulness and value to the data. One of the major hurdles in the plan will be developing a common methodology as experts agree that health care data from one institution to another can differ in much the same way that language differs from one county to another. There are also infrastructure challenges. There’s no universal computer system used among hospitals, so integrating a universal medical data storage/access solution across multiple IT platforms is a formidable challenge. So while there are enormous potential benefits to a national data system, getting there will still take some time.
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