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Every healthcare data warehouse eventually fails a HIPAA audit, produces a wrong HCC score, or generates a failed HEDIS submission — and traces the problem back to a missing or inconsistent data dictionary. Here is how to build one that actually gets used.
A data contract is a formal agreement between the team that produces data and the teams that consume it — specifying schema, quality rules, SLAs, and ownership. In healthcare, where a schema change in the claims pipeline can break downstream HEDIS calculations, data contracts are a stability mechanism, not a formality.
SOC 2 Type II is increasingly a vendor requirement and a customer expectation for healthcare data platforms. Here is what engineers need to implement — beyond what the auditors tell you.
The 21st Century Cures Act is not just a compliance checkbox — it mandates specific technical capabilities around open APIs, information blocking prohibition, and patient data access. Here is what your data architecture must deliver.
CMS-9115-F and its successors are not just policy — they are architectural requirements. Patient Access API, Provider Directory API, payer-to-payer exchange, and prior auth APIs each require specific technical capabilities your data team must build.
Data stewardship and data ownership are two distinct roles that most healthcare organizations conflate — until a governance failure makes the difference obvious. Here is how to define and assign both.
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