OUTDOOR AWARENESS

Trusted data must lie at the core of every business.  Too often, data's vastness and the complexities surrounding it creat roadblocks and prohibitive costs, making it difficult to extract the value sought from simple improvements.  But when data can be trusted, it provides workforces and customers alike confidence in the data and insights they need. 

Implementing data quality tools and processes to build trust in data.

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Creating a data hub or marketplace as a single source of truth that can be easily navigated.

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Demonstrating ROI while propelling your data initiatives and projects.

Information may be one of the most crucial and differentiating resources in the health insurance industry.  Advances in big data technology provide a great opportunity to effectively respond to member inquiries and anticipate health care needs.  It can also increase the timeliness and accuracy of provider reimbursements and more efficiently integrate all participants within health care delivery.  In this presentation, Andy Ashta, Executive Director, Information Architecture and Data Management at Health Care Service Corporation, will discuss how the organization has strategically integrated big data technologies into their data topology, heavily leveraging streaming data to connect applications and services, notifications, and alerts to improve the customer experience.

The purpose of this advisory board is to tap into the best minds for organizational transformation guidance, best practices and global trends. 

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The greater availability, accessibility, and usability of data creates greater corporate responsibility to protect and guard that data.  In this environment, data leaders need to be prominent stakeholders and participants in developing a multi-layered data security strategy.

Different structural components associated with company data and how to apply your data strategy throughout these structural layers.

How to advocate for adaptations that can change cultural and organizational norms.

What factors should be included in your consideration, e.g. on-premise/cloud infrastructure, regulatory responsibilities, etc.?

The 2018 National Summit is the premier Blue Cross Blue Shield conference of the year, assembling professionals from across the Blue Cross Blue Shield System to share best practices, ideas for growth, gather insights from keynote addresses and breakout sessions and much more.  Blue Cross Blue Shield Plan attendees come to learn from the best speakers, and to discuss issues and challenges with industry experts to learn about the latest solutions.

The business and technology teams within a health insurer must align the company's central data platform with its data strategy.  That requires substantial organizational alignment.  Hear the firsthand perspective from Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the largest customer owned health insurance company in the United States.  The speaker will cover how they integrated membership information, regulatory compliance, and the general ledger, to improve overall healthcare management.  At HCSC, the strong alignment between executive leadership, business portfolio direction, architectural strategy, technology delivery, and program management have helped create leading-edge capabilities which help the company respond nimbly to a quickly evolving healthcare industry.