Data Administration Proposal

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Data AdministrationProposal

• April 22, 2004

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The Proposal

• Support Data Management Prgm
• Support Data Integrity Prgm
• Support Data Quality

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Agenda

• Why Data Administration
• Business Descriptions for Data
• Data Quality

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Data Management Policy

• Establish accountability for Data Data Quality
• Define roles and responsibilities

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Organization forManaging Data Quality
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Expectationsof Data Custodians

• Provide business metadata for the I.T. systems
  database tables and columns
• Assist with data quality assessment and
  improvement initiatives for I.T. systems

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Value of Business Metadata

• Preserve Corporate knowledge about data assets
  and business rules
• Foster understanding and appropriate use of data
• Essential information for building new I.T.
  systems
• A prerequisite for determining the quality of
  the data

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Example
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Data Quality Review

• Analyze data quality reports and compare actual
  data content to metadata in the EMR
• Determine the overall quality of the metadata and
  identify other data quality concerns
• Notify the Data Steward when corrective action
  for the data itself is needed

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Summary

• Establish a Data Governance Policy
• Define a set of processes for Data Quality
• Create the metadata
• Measure the cost of process failure
• Periodic reviews of data quality

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Questions/Comments ?