Access and Action: Healthcare Systems Put Big Data to Work

From patient questionnaires to Internet of Medical Things devices, healthcare systems collect, store and rely on massive streams of data to deliver care, especially as they undergo digital transformations.
In North Carolina, Chapel Hill-based UNC Health responded to the pandemic in 2020 by deploying new telemedicine capabilities, an online symptom-checker chatbot and automated models to create forecasts on hospitalizations. UNC Health then integrated the information generated from those technologies into its data warehouse.
“It helped us make daily operational decisions to support the breadth…