A Revolution in Data Governance and Metadata Management at NDCHealth.

NDCHealth's Information Management division is a data factory. Accumulating, Cleansing, Packaging and Selling data is our business. We take in 10 million pharmacy transactions per week and produces sales, marketing and research knowledge for pharmaceutical companies. The challenge faced, was that with years of legacy systems and over 70 terabytes of data warehouse data, would we be able to meet the growing HIPAA and contractual requirements of managing data access and distribution? This is the story of how over the past year we revolutionized data governance. A little more than a year ago, NDCHealth was faced with two large seemingly insurmountable challenges. (1) The operational impact of ever growing HIPAA compliance requirements. (2) The more granular contractual requirements of data service providers and customers. As newer members of the NDCHealth Information Management team, Pamela Hulse & Paul Dyksterhouse faced technical, process, and people challenges to address data access and distribution requirement in a changing business environment.

Outline:

• Business Overview
• The great healthcare knowledge opportunities in mining pharmacy transactions.
• Problem
• The challenge of new data access requirements on old infrastructure and processes.
• The Solution: Start a Revolution in People, Processes, and Tools.
• The Roadmap
• How we met the challenges in the communication, timing, packaging, and delivery of the solution so as to not interrupt new product development nor overly hamper business margins.

For more information you can contact Paul Dyksterhouse at paul.dyksterhouse@acxiom.com.

Also, the URL provided with credit for help on the Data Governance program had a typo. It should be www.sox-online.com or www.datagovernance.com