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The use of data analytics to fuel digital transformation has gone far beyond a trend. This practice has become ubiquitous as healthcare organizations embark on digital transformation journeys.
According to a 2021 report by Sage Growth Partners, 85 percent of healthcare organizations said that having real-time, harmonized data is extremely important to their organizations for making informed operational decisions.
Why? Effective use of data analytics delivers valuable business outcomes – including improved efficiency in clinical workflow, increased productivity, reduced costs and an improved patient experience – that provide a competitive business edge.
To enable effective use of data analytics, many organizations are employing modern data platforms, which offer features such as nearly unlimited flexibility for data collection, clear visibility into data sets, and data democratization to make analytics available to users across an organization. provide capabilities. But perhaps the most valuable capability provided by modern data platforms is data governance: the establishment of clear rules about access to and use of data, as well as the enforcement of those rules.
“Governance is the cornerstone of the modern data platform,” says Rex Washburn, head of modern data platforms for CDW’s data practice. “If you don’t have data governance, you don’t have a modern data platform.”
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Simplifies compliance with governance data regulations
The governance provided by modern data platforms sets them apart from older data architectures. A modern platform can simplify and unify a healthcare organization’s data environment, enabling streamlined governance and security. By providing clear visibility into an organization’s data, a modern data platform enables administrators to precisely control access, ensuring that authorized users can deploy analytics features while securing data from unauthorized compromise Are.
Effective data governance also simplifies and enhances compliance with data protection and privacy regulations. The healthcare industry is heavily regulated, but even some large organizations do not have formal data governance. The governance capabilities provided by modern data platforms can be especially valuable in a frequently changing compliance environment that often challenges organizations to keep pace.
“A modern data platform helps organizations flexibly manage their data,” says Washburn. “As the rules change around data, governance and compliance, they are able to comply with those rules.”
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Combining the benefits of data analytics and the cloud
Modern data platforms provide cloud-based management of a healthcare organization’s data, providing elastic scalability and modularity. When users can quickly and easily find the data they need, their analytical efforts become less cumbersome and more likely to yield the results they’re looking for.
“We want to design the platform so that we can move data to business at the speed of business,” Washburn says. “We need to be able to provide them with what they need when they need it.”
The ability to provide data analysis capabilities to all users in an organization – not just data scientists or IT staff – is an essential element of a modern data platform. But if organizations are going to make data available to all users, they need to ensure that the right data governance rules are in place and that those rules are enforced. Modern data platforms achieve this objective.
Christopher Markolis, head of analytics and data governance, says, “The technology is advanced enough that an IT team can open up an entire data store to anyone, while ensuring they don’t have access to data they don’t want.” want to see.” for CDW. “It creates a very open and collaborative data landscape where people can really evaluate things.”
Ultimately, a modern data platform enables a healthcare organization to align its analytical efforts with its business strategy, embed analytics into processes and clinical decision making, and enable the organization to more effectively achieve its operational goals. can help.
next: Learn how modern data platforms can boost health care agility.
