Top 10 Tech Trends: Big Data Analytics: From Volume to Value

But implementing the EHR isn’t enough; that alone will not get you to meaningful use, Mitchell warns. Even with the EHR, she says, physicians are still complaining, saying their productivity is down, and all of these things that are supposed to make their lives easier are not because they can’t trust the data. “So now there is a big data issue, in terms of quality of data, integration of data, and making sure there is only one true source of truth for reporting. This is the biggest challenge right now.”

According to CSC’s McInally, while many organizations are still in the preliminary stages of their big data initiatives, because of health information exchanges (HIEs), it is now possible to look at patterns and uses of data that were not really available until this meaningful use era, and exploiting the data in ways that have never been done before. “And when we show some success doing that, I think the predictive analytics market will take off,” he says.