Foundational Data Governance The US Office of the Inspector General offers resources for maintaining compliance in healthcare. Their documentation is comprehensive and easy to access. But these resources don’t have much impact if your organization can’t find the data needed for those audits. Similar complications are seen with medical researchers, who are provided with a
Data’s ‘Dirty Word’
How to succeed in governance projects Data governance is a necessary step in creating a healthy and robust environment that drives business decisions and eases barriers to information across any organization. That being said, it’s gotten a bad rap. Finding someone who enjoys doing documentation is a rarity, and at its core, that is the
Democratizing Data Governance
Analytics community governance is the concept that those who know the data most – those who create, analyze, and draw conclusions from the data – should be the ones creating governance policies around that data. Also known as bottom-up data governance, this practice ensures buy in from key stakeholders and end users while also creating
Exploring Agile Data Governance
At CTI, we have identified a critical shift necessary to deliver on the promise of Data Governance (along with other essential tenets). We call the concept “Agile Data Governance” or sometimes “Governance at the point of use.” The whole point is that things change; if the world were static, governance would not be so hard.
Stratifying the Governance of Data
Ask a group of people to define “data governance” and you’ll get various responses. Ironically, the term itself suffers from ambiguity, so here is how we define it: Digital transformation initiatives are a key driver for needing such data clarity, but there are others that we should keep in mind listed briefly here: One obvious
Rethinking Data Governance to Drive Digital Transformation
The impact of data transforming how business and society functions have progressed enormously over the last few decades, yet recent advances have fallen far short of their potential because only a very few – the data experts in our organizations – can “deal with data.” Organizations know that enabling their business professionals to be “information
Governed Cloud-Based Healthcare Data Lakes
When it comes to the digital transformation of the Healthcare Industry, our partner Informatica is leading the way with the technology, solutions, and partners to successfully facilitate this change. In this latest blog, Informatica’s Richard Kramer, Chief Healthcare Strategist at Informatica, explains our approach to data governance. We believe in managing the movement of data
Innovation: The “Now“ Modern Healthcare Data Architecture
CTI Healthcare blog series: A Prescription for Improving Patient and Institutional Financial Wellbeing Innovation: The “Now“ Modern Healthcare Data Architecture Part 5 of 5. The healthcare industry produces massive volumes of data every day—from claims and cost data to clinical trials, electronic medical records, and even online patient sentiments. on-the-fly. most professionals within the industry,
Creating a Healthcare Data Ecosystem – A Lesson from the Business World
CTI Healthcare blog series: A Prescription for Improving Patient and Institutional Financial Wellbeing Creating a Healthcare Data Ecosystem – A Lesson from the Business World – Part 4 of 5. The healthcare industry has been playing IT catch-up, as the IT paradigm is already changing. Healthcare technology, by that I mean the IT that runs
The Accelerating Importance of Data Analytics in Healthcare
A Prescription for Improving Patient and Institutional Financial Wellbeing The Accelerating Importance of Data Analytics in Healthcare – Part 1 of 5. Data is the lifeblood of the next-generation health system, and innovative use of analytics will drive better outcomes and lower costs. Data analytics tools have the potential to transform health care in