Connecting Health Data: Powering Clinical Research, Patient Engagement Programs and More

The following is a guest article by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Consumer healthcare data is the new gold. In today’s complex healthcare landscape, those who access this wealth of data are more likely to optimize digital health programs to help improve patient engagement and health outcomes and to advance breakthroughs in clinical research.

Healthcare data can illuminate the patient journey providing invaluable insights into patients’ health histories, treatment responses and outcomes. Through these insights, healthcare organizations can design more targeted interventions and personalized patient engagement programs. That means accessing consumer health data safely and securely from various clinical and activity data sources including electronic health records, lab results, wearables, and fitness apps. And that is no easy task.

Gaining visibility into the comprehensive patient journey has become paramount

Amid the progress in leveraging data to improve understanding of health and wellness drivers lies a significant challenge: the proliferation and fragmentation of healthcare data. That data is often scattered across disparate systems as consumers access telehealth and retail health and visit multiple physicians and clinics. Too often, this fragmentation places the burden on the consumer, the only one who holds the keys to the ‘source of truth’ for healthcare information.

Add to that the surge in digital health solutions, including mobile apps, wearable devices, and telemedicine platforms. Then consider how more personalized recommendations and programs may better motivate the consumer to take action to improve their health. In addition, consider the growth of real-world data in clinical research, which presents an opportunity to advance medical knowledge and improve health outcomes.

Simplifying the complexities of connecting and sharing health data to gain consumer-level data and longitudinal insights can deepen relationships and deliver more meaningful healthcare experiences. The question is how to get there.

Turn health data into actionable intelligence

While there is more health data than ever, turning it into actionable intelligence isn’t easy. Reaching that goal requires a next-generation consumer-consented health data retrieval solution, which can enable consumers to connect and share digitized health data more quickly to those selected by the consumer. Maintaining industry data privacy standards while delivering sensitive health records seamlessly must remain top of mind.

Here are highlights of just a few use cases showing how healthcare organizations and research teams can impact condition management, care navigation, and personalized health with a more holistic view of their healthcare information portfolio.

Boost disease prevention with lab results

A digital health company sought a solution to monitor chronic disease prevention activities proactively. The focus was helping people reduce their cholesterol and A1C levels to support heart health and disease management. After executing a user-friendly consumer-permission tracking system, empowered consumers provided more valuable insights into their health and acted more proactively.

Personalize wellness with wearables

A global digital health company needed a streamlined way to collect wearable data from consumers. The organization sought to deliver personalized experiences for exercise challenges. Consumers connect their wearable devices to the digital health app through a consumer-consented digital health data solution, eliminating manual data entry. As a result, the company’s understanding of health and wellness drivers soared as did participant engagement in health and wellness programs.

Streamline data acquisition to fuel maternal health research

4YouandMe, a non-profit organization with a global mission to alleviate the burden of chronic disease on underserved populations, lacked comprehensive data on large populations of pregnant patients for its BUMP study. The organization turned to a consumer-permission health data network with next-generation digital capabilities to streamline and consolidate data acquisition and efficiently receive structured medical record data from participants across the U.S. at multiple parts of the study. By doing so, they gained deeper insight into each participant’s clinical journey through pregnancy, identified potential risk factors and enabled recommendations of proactive support.

Modernize engagement with research participants

A large, non-profit cancer research organization depended on a manual, time-consuming, paper-based process to collect extensive health data from study participants across the U.S.  By authorizing data retrieval from any place, any time through a patient-centric guided application, they decreased onboarding time from weeks to less than two days. 70% of participants who started the onboarding process completed it.

By using clinical and activity data to advance clinical research and patient engagement, healthcare organizations can drive improvements in patient care, deliver personalized health insights to consumers, and shape the future of medicine.  Better insights equate to better care.

Ultimately, consumer healthcare data powers a continuous cycle of innovation that drives improvements in patient care and solves healthcare’s most complex challenges. Through the power of data and insights, you can reveal new opportunities to improve outcomes while upholding the highest standards for security and privacy.

Contact LexisNexis^® Risk Solutions to unlock the power of data, insights and analytics to power next-generation healthcare technologies and platforms to enhance clinical research efforts, bolster patient engagement programs, and much more.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions

The Healthcare Business of LexisNexis^® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data, sophisticated analytics platforms and technology solutions to empower healthcare organizations with critical insights to transform operations and create healthier communities.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a sponsor of Healthcare Scene.

The following is a guest article by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Consumer healthcare data is the new gold. In today’s complex healthcare landscape, those who access this wealth of data are more likely to optimize digital health programs to help improve patient engagement and health outcomes and to advance breakthroughs in clinical research.

Healthcare data can illuminate the patient journey providing invaluable insights into patients’ health histories, treatment responses and outcomes. Through these insights, healthcare organizations can design more targeted interventions and personalized patient engagement programs. That means accessing consumer health data safely and securely from various clinical and activity data sources including electronic health records, lab results, wearables, and fitness apps. And that is no easy task.

Gaining visibility into the comprehensive patient journey has become paramount

Amid the progress in leveraging data to improve understanding of health and wellness drivers lies a significant challenge: the proliferation and fragmentation of healthcare data. That data is often scattered across disparate systems as consumers access telehealth and retail health and visit multiple physicians and clinics. Too often, this fragmentation places the burden on the consumer, the only one who holds the keys to the ‘source of truth’ for healthcare information.

Add to that the surge in digital health solutions, including mobile apps, wearable devices, and telemedicine platforms. Then consider how more personalized recommendations and programs may better motivate the consumer to take action to improve their health. In addition, consider the growth of real-world data in clinical research, which presents an opportunity to advance medical knowledge and improve health outcomes.

Simplifying the complexities of connecting and sharing health data to gain consumer-level data and longitudinal insights can deepen relationships and deliver more meaningful healthcare experiences. The question is how to get there.

Turn health data into actionable intelligence

While there is more health data than ever, turning it into actionable intelligence isn’t easy. Reaching that goal requires a next-generation consumer-consented health data retrieval solution, which can enable consumers to connect and share digitized health data more quickly to those selected by the consumer. Maintaining industry data privacy standards while delivering sensitive health records seamlessly must remain top of mind.

Here are highlights of just a few use cases showing how healthcare organizations and research teams can impact condition management, care navigation, and personalized health with a more holistic view of their healthcare information portfolio.

Boost disease prevention with lab results

A digital health company sought a solution to monitor chronic disease prevention activities proactively. The focus was helping people reduce their cholesterol and A1C levels to support heart health and disease management. After executing a user-friendly consumer-permission tracking system, empowered consumers provided more valuable insights into their health and acted more proactively.

Personalize wellness with wearables

A global digital health company needed a streamlined way to collect wearable data from consumers. The organization sought to deliver personalized experiences for exercise challenges. Consumers connect their wearable devices to the digital health app through a consumer-consented digital health data solution, eliminating manual data entry. As a result, the company’s understanding of health and wellness drivers soared as did participant engagement in health and wellness programs.

Streamline data acquisition to fuel maternal health research

4YouandMe, a non-profit organization with a global mission to alleviate the burden of chronic disease on underserved populations, lacked comprehensive data on large populations of pregnant patients for its BUMP study. The organization turned to a consumer-permission health data network with next-generation digital capabilities to streamline and consolidate data acquisition and efficiently receive structured medical record data from participants across the U.S. at multiple parts of the study. By doing so, they gained deeper insight into each participant’s clinical journey through pregnancy, identified potential risk factors and enabled recommendations of proactive support.

Modernize engagement with research participants

A large, non-profit cancer research organization depended on a manual, time-consuming, paper-based process to collect extensive health data from study participants across the U.S.  By authorizing data retrieval from any place, any time through a patient-centric guided application, they decreased onboarding time from weeks to less than two days. 70% of participants who started the onboarding process completed it.

By using clinical and activity data to advance clinical research and patient engagement, healthcare organizations can drive improvements in patient care, deliver personalized health insights to consumers, and shape the future of medicine.  Better insights equate to better care.

Ultimately, consumer healthcare data powers a continuous cycle of innovation that drives improvements in patient care and solves healthcare’s most complex challenges. Through the power of data and insights, you can reveal new opportunities to improve outcomes while upholding the highest standards for security and privacy.

Contact LexisNexis^® Risk Solutions to unlock the power of data, insights and analytics to power next-generation healthcare technologies and platforms to enhance clinical research efforts, bolster patient engagement programs, and much more.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions

The Healthcare Business of LexisNexis^® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data, sophisticated analytics platforms and technology solutions to empower healthcare organizations with critical insights to transform operations and create healthier communities.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a sponsor of Healthcare Scene.