Master Data Management in Health care

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Master Data Management (MDM) is the practice of cleansing, rationalizing and integrating data into an enterprise-wide “system of record” for core business activities (1). It is a discipline used to bring order and control to our data. Master Data is the core business data that is state driven and not event driven. This data is foundation to all business activities. Master Data can be divided into two categories:

1. Identity Data - such as patient, provider and location identifiers 2. Reference Data - which includes common linkable vocabularies such as ICD-9, Order Sets,

References

  1. MDM in the Context of Data Governance for Healthcare Management http://www.damachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/DAMA-Spring2013-DG-and-MDM.pdf
  2. Master Data Management in Healthcare: 3 Approaches https://www.healthcatalyst.com/master-data-management-in-healthcare-3-approaches