“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley.” Robert Burns wrote that in 1785, and it holds up remarkably well as a description of post-acquisition data migration. Last year, healthcare provider Northwell Health acquired Nuvance Health, its 21st acquisition since Northwell was…
When you are evaluating an acquisition, initial discovery reveals systems and licenses: which ERP, which CRM, how many seats. What it doesn’t show you is what’s actually inside the data underlying those systems: years of workarounds, customizations, and decisions baked in by people who left…
Epic is not just winning the electronic health record (EHR) market anymore. It is becoming the default. When two health systems merge today, the odds are good that both sides were already on Epic, or one of them was about to be. It would be…
First in a series on the challenges of post-acquisition data migration. Day 40 usually looks fine. Leadership is aligned, the branding refresh has shipped, and the all-hands meeting went well. Everyone feels good about where things stand. Day 90 tells a different story. Finance is…
I have participated in and led enterprise-scale data migration projects for the financial services, real estate, homebuilding, and healthcare industries for the better part of three decades. I’m curious about ways to leverage AI to help improve outcomes in these large projects, particularly when they…