Metadata: The Cornerstone of Tomorrow's Healthcare Information Management Systems

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In this whitepaper, Dr. David Fenstermacher, Chair and Executive Director of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, discusses how the Healthcare reform is transforming the way data and information is collected and used across the healthcare continuum in an effort to improve the quality of care, reduce errors and allow patients to play a greater role in wellness and disease management.

Dr. Fenstermacher examines why the design of new healthcare information management systems must overcome challenges including the information gap, the lack of data standards, inadequate data quality and the technical limitations of current data architectures. The future of healthcare in the United States and worldwide will rely heavily on information technology to improve patient care, reduce healthcare-related errors and to control costs.

This whitepaper also outlines how new metadata layers can provide richer knowledge about the nature of the data in an information infrastructure that will allow new ways to access and use data.