5.8 Implications for practice
- Data analytics will become integral to patient health management as more data platforms integrate to provide real-time information for decision-making to improve patient and resource management.
- While there are restricted levels to patient information based on privacy laws in many countries, some data sources may yet miss key aspects of relevant information and may not provide the full dataset required to make informed decisions.
- Poor sampling of any dataset can produce data that is not representative of the studied populations. Organisations must be cautious about using one set of data or smaller datasets to make health outcome predictions.
