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As the UPMC Health System builds out its analytics capabilities, an initiative now in its third year, it's started a formal data governance program, according to an article at Healthcare Informatics.
Although the health system has been collecting a wealth of information in its data warehouse, much of it was in "note bloat," Vivek Reddy, M.D., chief medical information officer in UPMC's Health Services Division, says in the article. That note bloat makes it hard to define the prevalence of clinical conditions, which creates problems in trying to use the data for research and personalized medicine, he adds.
To fix that problem, UPMC created a...