Database Auditing

I'd like to take this opportunity to call attention to Dana Blankenhorn once more, as he provides some excellent insight into an emerging database auditing business.

He has situated his observation within the context of the recent Ingenix settlement esulting from a fraud case filed last year by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo.

"But there is another issue here, a tech issue. That is the need to regularly audit key databases, and the increasing risks companies run for relying upon them. We’re talking here about more than security audits here, but audits of the accuracy of information a database contains. The problem is especially acute for databases that include value judgments, like quality of care. Doctors as well as patients are going to be heading to court far more often, challenging medical databases."

And the solution?

"Potentially a giant new industry in database content auditing is about to spring up. Law students might want to take a few database management courses if they want to make the big bucks."

Is Mr. Blankenhorn on to something? Have any of the larger research firms performed any market sizing or landscaping exercises on this niche?