Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin transforms patient experience with Collibra

Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin (nine hospitals, 2,000+ physicians, 45 health centers, 1.5 million outpatients) had data siloed in SharePoint and spreadsheets, with no agreement on metric definitions and clinical/business leaders treating data as purely an IT concern. It deployed Collibra to build "Data 360°," a centralized repository now covering 45+ databases, 850+ metrics, and 3,240+ views used by 1,330 people, adding a metric-approval voting workflow and a hub-and-spoke governance model with implementation partner Dadata Consulting. The finance team achieved 50% faster data analysis — cutting tasks that took five to ten minutes down to seconds — and the organization established clear definitions for metrics like Length of Stay, Readmission Rate, and Mortality, giving it a "single source of truth" combining clinical and financial data.

Collibra is a data-governance and catalog platform used to keep data trustworthy, traceable and compliant enough to support an AI initiative.

This sits in the Design & Stress-Test stage of the AI use-case lifecycle: Named examples from the tools pharma teams use to scope, prototype and benchmark an AI use case before committing to build it — data-catalog, sandbox and evaluation platforms.