With 11 deployments under her belt, brand new VP of Data Fiona McPherson Grant knows a thing or two about health tech data integrations. She shares unique insights gleaned getting her hands dirty merging legacy data systems, bringing clinicians, analysts and patients alike on board, and what to look for when choosing a tech partner.
I just love data.
It gets me out of bed in the morning. That and an ice swim at my local lake in Grand Rapids. Your data is unique to your organization and it holds the answers to your most pressing questions. It’s like the oil in a machine, when it’s flowing seamlessly, the machine can operate at peak performance. When your team understands how to talk about it, and how it moves through a system, then you know you’re getting the most valuable insights possible that are unique to your organization. It also represents the streamlining of human effort. What’s not to love?!
Doctors are data factories
Think about a cardiac surgeon performing a lifesaving procedure. That’s an incredibly valuable act – prolonging or saving someone’s life. Now take all the data they’re creating along every step of the process. That can be extrapolated far beyond one procedure on a single patient. That data can be collected and used to predict patient outcomes, for research, cost savings, time savings for clinicians, potentially monetized. The value add of collecting and connecting data is exponential