Healthcare organizations depend on information systems to collect data from daily operations and turn it into useful information for managers and executives.

This report looks at how a healthcare organization can use data and artificial intelligence in a way that improves decision-making while still protecting privacy, security, and data quality. The readings for this week show that an effective data strategy must balance data defense, which focuses on protecting and governing information, with data offense, which focuses on using data through analysis, reporting, and visualization to improve performance.