#data-governance

#data-governance

More than three million Californians are expected to lose health coverage in the next several years due to federal Medicaid cuts. At the same time, over half of Californians say they have skipped or delayed care because of rising costs -with nearly half in that group saying their health got worse as a result. As leaders of health organizations serving Alameda County, Santa Cruz and the Central Coast, we can say unequivocally that these are the two greatest health challenges we've faced since the pandemic:

Successful organizations aren't just aligning marketing and IT - they're building systems of collaboration that last.

The leap from chatbot to AI agent is not just about adding automation - it's about architectural transformation, embedding reasoning and action in context.

We heard from our customers and large organizations that managing data access at scale has become a really big problem,

In the past 30 years, advances in data management have been driven by Moore's Law, yet the basic architecture of analytics remains unchanged since 1992.

As I like to say, this path to agentic 'AI heaven' goes through some form of data hell, and that's the grim reality.

We need to move beyond the Babylonian confusion surrounding agents. Some people talk about conversational assistants or chatbots, while others refer to real agentic AI.