Information Systems

  Assess the role of health big data mining and analytics in improving healthcare managerial decision-making, including quality. Disease Registries are a special database containing information about people diagnosed with a specific type of disease. Evaluate their role in healthcare services delivery. How do they differ from ordinary healthcare databases? What organizations choose to use the Disease Registries and why? Are these registries accessible to the public at large, and if so, how could the public befit from these? If disease registries are not accessible to the public, why is that? Should they be? What challenges of either choice you can conclude on? Is there a way to offset them? Finally, assess the impact of Disease Registries in improving healthcare in US? Offer ways to increase utilization of Disease Registries for patient outcome and healthcare services delivery improvements. Provide reasoning.