What Is the Role of Data Governance in Healthcare?

The World Economic Forum has estimated that the average hospital produces at least 50 petabytes of data each year. It’s widely accepted that roughly 80 percent of healthcare data is unstructured, which means that it must be normalized and standardized in some way to be machine-readable.
These factors make it critical for healthcare organizations to look holistically at how they manage data through a process known as data governance. Getting data governance right ensures that end users across the organization, regardless of their role, can readily access the data they have permission to use,…