Data is invaluable to health care: the availability of increasing amounts of data offer new possibilities to support personalized health care. Healthcare organisation collect large amounts of data at client, employee and organizational level: data in electronic health records or data collected by digital techniques such as sensors or wearables, but also qualitative data in the form of texts collected in, for example, multidisciplinary consultations. Hence, care organisations collect a wealth of data, and thus information. This data can be used to support shared decision making, and thus in turn, improve quality of care for clients or patients or quality of work for employees. The present Special Issue responds to the remarkable change in the focus of the use of data in healthcare, where the use of data to make informed and shared decisions in care becomes vital. This Special Issue is focused on publishing highest quality papers in areas associated to data, data science and data-informed decision making in healthcare. Papers involving the use of data and/or data science methods with relevance to care, including care echelons such as long-term care or family medicine, will be considered for publication.

Keywords: data; data science; data-informed decision making; personalized health care