Combining the Benefits of Data Analytics and the Cloud
Modern data platforms provide cloud-based management of a healthcare organization’s data, delivering elastic scalability and modularity. When users can find the data they need quickly and easily, their analytics efforts become less burdensome and more likely to yield the results they’re looking for.
“We want to design the platform so that we can push data to the business at the speed of business,” Washburn says. “We need to be able to get them what they need, when they need it.”
The ability to provide data analytics capabilities to all users in an organization — not only data scientists or IT staff — is an essential element of the modern data platform. But if organizations are going to make data available to all users, they must ensure that the right data governance rules are in place and that those rules ae enforced. Modern data platforms achieve this objective.
“The technology is so advanced that an IT team can literally open up the entire data store to anybody while making sure they don’t have access to data they’re not supposed to see,” says Christopher Marcolis, head of analytics and data governance for CDW. “It creates a very open and collaborative data landscape where people actually can evaluate things.”
Ultimately, a modern data platform can help a healthcare organization align its analytics efforts to its business strategy, embed analytics into processes and clinical decision-making, and help the organization more effectively achieve its operational goals.
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