Improving Emergency Room Wait Times

Data governance and data analytics can play a role in improving wait times in a local hospital’s emergency room by providing a structured approach to collecting, organizing, and analyzing data on the hospital’s operations. Data governance refers to the policies, procedures, and standards that are put in place to ensure that data is collected, stored, and used in a consistent, reliable, and transparent manner (Zhang et al., 2019). In the context of a hospital’s emergency room, data governance could involve establishing guidelines for how patient data is collected, stored, and shared, as well as establishing protocols for how data on wait times and other operational metrics is collected and reported. Data analytics, on the other hand, refers to the process of using statistical and computational techniques to extract insights and knowledge from data (Wang, 2020). In the context of a hospital’s emergency room, data analytics could be used to identify patterns and trends in patient wait times, as well as to identify potential causes of delays and bottlenecks in the care process. Cont…