A recent engagement with a health organisation had me thinking about the amount of data that’s generated by a single patient as they move through the continuum of a hospital’s system. According to AIHW, over 20,000 people a day present to the ED at public hospitals across Australia. And WA has one of the highest rates (~53 percent) of ED presentations resulting in a hospital admission. It’s hard to fathom just how much data is generated. But more importantly, how’s that data being managed and what business intelligence opportunities are being derived from all that data? Enable your business with robust data governance and a single source of truth Disparate systems and lack of interoperability Like any large organisation, a hospital has many information systems. Even in the same building, different information systems might be used for different service delivery activities – such as ambulance, emergency, admissions, pharmacy, inventory and so on. But these systems don’t necessarily talk to each other. A perfect scenario for creating data silos. The value of data silos is limited A data silo is a repository of fixed data that remains under the control of one department and is isolated from the rest of the organisation....