Your EHR, CRM, and digital front door all touch the same patient record now. None of them catch it when that patient shows up under a different name, address, or phone number. Governance built for fewer systems can’t keep up.
This checklist gives data, IT, and compliance leaders a practical way to audit patient data governance across five areas: standards, quality, stewardship, compliance, and oversight. Work through it with your team to see where governance holds up, where it’s fragile, and what to fix first. Anything left unchecked is your starting point.
This two-page guide gives health system data, analytics, and AI leaders 10 concrete steps to cut duplicates at the source, not just clean them up after the fact. It covers the whole path, from agreeing on one definition of a duplicate to tying duplicate rate to the numbers leadership already tracks. Work through the steps in order, or start wherever your team already is.