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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Substantial investments are being made in health -information -technology (HIT) based on assumptions that these systems will save costs through increased quality, safety and efficiency of care provision. Whilst -short-term -benefits have often proven difficult to demonstrate, there is increasing interest in achieving benefits in the medium and long term through secondary uses of -HIT-derived data.
AIMS: We aimed to describe the range of secondary uses of HIT-derived data in the international literature and identify innovative developments of particular relevance to UK policymakers and managers.
METHODS: We searched nine electronic databases to conduct a systematic scoping review of the international literature and augmented this by consulting a range of experts in the field.
RESULTS: Reviewers independently screened 16,806 titles, resulting in 583 -eligible studies for inclusion. Thematic organisation of reported secondary uses was -validated during expert consultation (n = 23). A primary division was made between patient-identifiable data and datasets in which individuals were not identified. Secondary uses were then categorised under four domain headings of: i) research; ii) quality and safety of care provision; iii) financial management; and iv) healthcare professional education. We found that innovative developments were most -evident in research where, in particular, dataset linkage studies offered important -opportunities for exploitation.
CONCLUSIONS: Distinguishing patient-identifiable data from aggregated, de-identified datasets gives greater conceptual clarity in secondary uses of HIT-derived data. Secondary uses research has substantial potential for realising future benefits through generating new medical knowledge from dataset linkage studies, developing precision medicine and enabling cross-sectoral, evidence-based policymaking to benefit population-level well-being.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 611-619 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 10 Nov 2016 |
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Developing a UK taxonomy and framework for facilitating health policy deliberations on maximising secondary uses of healthcare data: a mixed methods study
Sheikh, A., Cresswell, K., Nurmatov, U. & Smith, P.
UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities
1/08/13 → 31/07/14
Project: Research