Advocate’s CDO offers tips from experience for integrating post-acquisition data assets

Amid a trend of hospital and health system mergers, the importance of data integration cannot be understated for operational success. Advocate Health, the result of a mega-merger, offers insights into the process of data migration and integration. In the short term, standard integrated reports allow performance monitoring, while in the long term, a modern data platform helps democratize and curate integrated data. Working in tandem with data teams is crucial to effective data aggregation and visualization across a newly combined entity.