Tag: data-governance

You do exams all day. Here’s one for the practice — ten minutes on AI, ten on data, ten on encryption — and what a passing score actually looks like.

A new sparkle icon appeared in your practice-management system after last month’s update, and it’s already summarizing patient notes. Nobody chose that. Here are four things that changed when your vendor added AI, and the questions to ask before you keep using it.

Most practices never delete anything, and it feels like the safe choice — until every old record becomes something you have to protect, back up, and disclose in a breach. Here’s what a retention schedule you can actually follow looks like.

“IT handles that.” “The vendor handles that.” “The office manager handles that.” In most practices, nobody actually handles that — and the owner-doctor finds out at the worst possible moment. Here are three roles that need a name next to them.

Ask your office manager where patient data is stored and count the pauses. The honest list is a lot longer than the practice-management system. Here are the places it hides — and how to build a data map in one afternoon.