What Data Delays Are Costing Healthcare — And Its Patients

▤ Summary

The article argues that healthcare organizations lose value when claims, clinical, and operational data arrive too late to guide action. It shows how delayed information hurts care coordination, increases administrative work, and allows fraud, waste, and eligibility errors to persist. It highlights interoperability progress, but notes that most hospitals still do not exchange and use data routinely at the point of care. It also points to real-time data as a practical lever for improving benefit administration, transportation programs, and patient outcomes. The piece urges healthcare leaders to identify where lagging data creates problems and work with IT and vendor partners to close those gaps.

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