This presentation provides the scenario and challenges faced when establishing a data quality program and discusses some approaches taken in the past and pitfalls to avoid. It will provide guidelines on how other organizations can jump-start their data quality initiatives and increase awareness and organization maturity through data quality and literacy workshops. Finally, it provides some success metrics that can be gathered to measure the benefits of this approach for the organization.

Speaker: Anjita Shetty

Data Quality Portfolio Lead, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Anjita is a Data Management professional focused on establishing a Data Quality program at CHOP. Her work is focused on creating a governance framework for data policies, standards, and measures, as well as monitoring data quality and ensuring organizational adherence to the standards. She works closely with clinical and functional area leadership to improve quality of core data assets. Prior to joining CHOP, she lead similar Data Quality and data management efforts in Health life sciences and Retail. Anjita holds a master’s degree in Digital computing from Monash University in Australia and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science. She holds various certifications for data and project management and is a self-proclaimed data geek.