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The document discusses metadata management and outlines its benefits, such as improving data quality and accuracy of patient matching. Metadata is classified into three primary categories: business, operational, and technical. It also defines business data and rules, and emphasizes the importance of implementing business rules as metadata for flexibility and reducing system maintenance.

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MetaData Management

The document discusses metadata management and outlines its benefits, such as improving data quality and accuracy of patient matching. Metadata is classified into three primary categories: business, operational, and technical. It also defines business data and rules, and emphasizes the importance of implementing business rules as metadata for flexibility and reducing system maintenance.

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METADATA MANAGEMENT

Establish the processes, standards, and infrastructure for specification of well


organized, comprehensive and accessible information about the data assets under
management.

An organization that develops its patient demographic metadata will realize a


number of direct and indirect benefits, as metadata reduces data risks and is
essential for:

• Improving data quality through common understanding and agreement about


names, definitions, values, ranges, and formats;
• Improving the accuracy of patient record matching and identifying duplicates;
• Tracing the origin of data and assessing impacts across the lifecycle;
• Building an accessible knowledge base for stakeholders across the
organization;
• Determining when to archive a record; and
• Mapping data from multiple sources for integration and sharing.

Metadata is usually classified in three primary categories: Business Metadata,


Operational Metadata, and Technical Metadata.

Business Data Definition

Is information that is used to plan and operate an organization. This includes


source data that a business collects and data that has been processed such as
calculated metrics and forecast Business data can be stored in database that are
machine readable or represented as information intended for human consumption
such as a user interface, document or report. The following are common types of
business data.

• Leads & Opportunities – List of Potential customer.


• Customer – Customer details such as name and address.
• Transactions – Records of commercial transactions such as customer
purchase.
• Interactions – Records of interactions with customer and other stakeholders
such as investors, employees and the media. For example, records of visits to
your websites.
• Social Media - Data regarding your target market or reputations that is
collected from social media sources.
• Product – A product catalog that captures the specifications of your products.
• Employee – Employee data such as skill inventories, salary and performance
management data.
• Knowledge – information created by employee and partners that is stored as
documents and media.
• Communications – Communications such as business emails and records of
customer inquiries.
• Process – Information that pertains to business process such as
manufacturing products, fulfilling orders and supporting customers.
• Supply chain - Supply chain data such as tracking your inventory in storage
and transport.
• Partner – Partner information’s such as data that is used to monitor the
performance of suppliers.
• Risk – Data that is used ot identify, analyze and manage rish such as a
database of historical constructions projects that is used to estimate
contruction project risk.
• Market – Market data such as information about price offered by competitors.
• Industry – Idustry data such as market size and market share data for product
category.

Importance of Business data

Data help you understand and improve business processes so you can


reduce wasted money and time. Every company feels the effects of waste. It
depletes resources, squanders time, and ultimately impacts the bottom line. For
example, bad advertising decisions can be one of the greatest wastes of resources
in a company.

What is Business rules?


Business rules have been defined as both "directive(s) intended to influence or guide
business behavior" and "constraints on a business”.

According the Business Rules Group……

• I/S Perspective: A statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the


business. It is intended to assert business structure, or to control or
influence the behavior of the business.
• Business Perspective: A directive, intended to influence or guide business
behavior, in support of business policy that has been formulated in
response to an opportunity, threat, strength, or weakness.

Business rules may be any of the following:

• Definitions of business terms


• Data integrity constraints
• Mathematical and functional derivations
• Logical inferences
• Processing sequences
• Relationships among facts about the business

Implementing business rules as metadata is the most rigorous and, at the same
time, most flexible approach to business rule implementation.

This is in contrast to other implementation approaches.

• Process-driven approaches can be rigorous, but they are by no means


flexible. In any process-centric approach, implementing the business rules
is fairly straightforward, but, because they are typically implemented in
code, changing them can be difficult and labor intensive.
• Procedure-driven approaches, characterized by manuals and checklists,
are certainly flexible, but they are not rigorous. Procedures can be
changed very easily. However, procedures are only as rigorous as their
users choose them to be. People can and will ignore procedures.
Advantages of Managing Business Rules as Metadata

• Allows maximum flexibility


• Reduces system maintenance
• Simplifies system design, development and implementation
• Rules can change without affecting implementation
• Ensures that systems fully support business needs
• MIS personnel don't need to learn the intricacies of the business

Business Rule Techniques and Best Practices

Documenting and implementing business rules as metadata is fairly simple.


However, any approach, no matter how excellent or useful, can still be performed
poorly. This is particularly true when the approach seems to be simple. To ensure
that business rules are captured correctly and implemented effectively, requires
using a few techniques and best practices.

There are three basic characteristics of good business rules:

• Explicit expression - Any statement of business rules needs an explicit


expression, either graphically or as a formal (logic-based) language.
• Declarative nature - A business rule is declarative, not procedural. It describes
a desirable, possible state that is either required or prohibited.
• Coherent representation - A single, coherent model for all the kinds of
business rules is desirable.

Algorithm

• A log-structured merge-tree (LSM tree) is a data structure typically used


when dealing with write-heavy workloads. 
Data Lineage and Impact Analysis

What is data lineage?

Data lineage uncovers the life cycle of data it aims to show the complete data flow,
from start to finish. Data lineage is the process of understanding, recording, and
visualizing data as it flows from data sources to consumption. This includes all
transformations the data underwent along the way how the data was transformed,
what changed, and why.

What is the Purpose of data lineage?

Data lineage helps users make sure their data is coming from a trusted source, has
been transformed correctly, and loaded to the specified location. Data lineage plays
an important role when strategic decisions rely on accurate information.

Data lineage shows the full context of your data including the source of the data, how
data sets are built and aggregated the quality of data sets, and any transformations
along the data journey. This helps ensure that accurate, complete and trustworthy
data is being used to drive business decisions.

Why is Data Lineage Important?

Just knowing the source of a particular data set is not always enough to understand
its importance, perform error resolution, understand process changes, and perform
system migrations and updates.

Knowing who made the change, how it was updated, and the process used,
improves data quality. It allows data custodians to ensure the integrity and
confidentiality of data is protected throughout its lifecycle.

The Best Open-Source Data Lineage Tools

 Apatar
 CloverETL
 Dremio
What is impact analysis?

impact analysis is a detailed study of business activities, dependencies, and


infrastructure. It reveals how critical products and services are delivered and
examines the potential impact of a disruptive event over time.

According to Arnold and Bohner, there are three main types of impact analysis:

Traceability Impact Analysis

Traceability impact analysis captures the links between requirements, specifications,


design elements, and tests, analyzing their relationships to determine the scope of
an initiating change. Manually determining what will be affected by a change can be
extremely time-consuming in complex projects, which is where requirements
management software comes in (more about it later in this article).

Dependency Impact Analysis

This type of impact analysis is used to determine the depth of the impact on the
system.

Experiential Impact Analysis

Taking into account the prior experience of experts in the organization, experiential
impact analysis studies what happened in similar situations in the past to determine
what may happen in the future.

How to Conduct an Impact Analysis?

1. Prepare

2. Collect Information

3. Evaluate the Collected Information

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