Chapter 17
Components of the Data Mapping Process
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
–Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986), Hungarian biochemist and 1937 Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine
Healthcare is a trillion-dollar industry. The amount of electronic claims data for just one region of Medicare claims can reach multiple terabytes of text-delineated content. This is a large amount of data to process and decipher. To tackle large quantities of data in any audit and investigation, the process begins with data mapping. A comprehensive and well-outlined data map serves as a solid foundation to see everything, often for the first time, and then think what no one has thought.
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