Envisioning the future of clinical analytics: a modified Delphi process in New South Wales, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical analytics is a rapidly developing area of informatics and knowledge mobilisation which has huge potential to improve healthcare in the future. It is widely acknowledged to be a powerful mediator of clinical decision making, patient-centred care and organisational learning. As a result, healthcare systems require a strategic foundation for clinical analytics that is sufficiently directional to support meaningful change while flexible enough to allow for iteration and responsiveness to context as change occurs.

Methods

In New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, the Clinical Analytics Working Group was charged with developing a five-year vision for the public health system. A modified Delphi process was undertaken to elicit expert views and to

SUBMITTER: Sutherland K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7650225 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature