The Arizona state government wants to improve outcomes for the people they serve. Part of their plan to improve those outcomes involves a robust state-wide Data Governance program to change the culture and elevate the state of Data Management for a hundred Arizona agencies. Jeff Wolkove – State Data Management Architect for the Arizona Department […]
Case Study: Using Data Quality and Data Management to Improve Patient Care
Mismatched patient data is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States, according to healthIT.gov, and a 2016 survey by the Poneman Institute revealed that 86 percent of all healthcare practitioners know of an error caused by incorrect patient data. Patient misidentification is also responsible for 35 percent of denied insurance claims, […]
Data Governance Program Success: Vanguard and the DGPO Best Practices Award
“You can start a Data Governance Program well,” said Michele Koch, the VP of Membership at the Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview about the finalists of the 2017 DGPO Best Practices Award. “It’s sustaining the program that is very hard to do.” The three finalists for the 2017 DGPO Best […]
The Case for the Data Management Maturity Model
The CMMI Institute announced its Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) back in 2014 to enable organizations to improve Data Management practices across their entire business. Some two-and-a-half years later, the technology-independent model continues to help organizations optimize their data assets is being successfully used by organizations across all industries to meet many Data Management objectives. […]