Different Healthcare Data Types and their Application to Data Dictionaries

    Scenario: You are working with other informatics professionals to build a data dictionary for a healthcare organization. Your team has been assigned the job of taking the data elements found in various uniform data sets and building a data dictionary for each uniform data set. You must understand the different types of healthcare data so that you can apply the correct ones to your data dictionary. Requirements: A Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the following categories of healthcare data: 1. aggregate data 2. comparative data 3. patient-centric data B. Explain ways health record data may be used as a primary data source in a healthcare organization. C. Discuss ways health record data from uniform data sets may be used for secondary data sources in a healthcare organization. D. Analyze why a data dictionary is an essential tool when used across information systems. 1. Justify how the use of data dictionaries could improve an organization's communication across the continuum of care.