I personally generate several Gbs of healthcare data per day.
I know we generate a lot of data. I also know it's data that's so unreliable that its business value does not lie in its real-world use for improving healthcare pathways. It's very valuable politically and from a managerial standpoint, though. Unfortunately.
I mean it depends. There is a lot of fairly reliable discrete data in medicine: medications/labs/imaging studies/procedures/flowsheet/etc. ICD10 diagnoses are discrete and fairly reliable. The progress notes have lots of copy/paste/smart-phrase/macro-generated trash, but at least Epic saves a lot of rtf markup about the source of the text data. I am pretty optimistic about data quality, it is availability to 3rd parties that I think is limiting the AI boom.
I know we generate a lot of data. I also know it's data that's so unreliable that its business value does not lie in its real-world use for improving healthcare pathways. It's very valuable politically and from a managerial standpoint, though. Unfortunately.