Figure 1:

SDS spans the complete patient care pathway with the objective of maximizing the quality and value of care by augmenting care providers and enhancing technology; it involves seamless, efficient capture, secure storage, and efficient curation of data regardless of their complexity as well as analytics to (1) sustain continuous quality improvement, (2) augment the performance of human care providers as well as that of technologies used for diagnosis and therapy, (3) enable intelligent assistance and collaboration between care providers and technology, and (4) support effective and efficient training for care providers.