The CIO may be solely responsible for defining the business requirements and project plan for the company’s IT business intelligence. But regardless of the IT executive teams’
make-up, the governance framework should align current IT infrastructure and objectives with the health system’s overall organizational strategies.As a caveat relevant to the dawning age of EHR data mining, the data scientist who creates the high-level, complex analytical algorithms may best be placed in the C-suite as either a chief data officer (CDO) or a chief analytic officer (CAO).And although a CIO could morph into either one of these roles, the CIO position will likely concede data control in order to fully focus on the oversight of IT infrastructure, applications and vendor sourcing responsibilities.
The momentum for analytical data executives is mounting:Since 2012, the number of CDOs has doubled each year across all industries, and by this year, the Gartner group predicts that
25 percent of large global organizations, mostly in the U.S.,will have appointed CDOs.