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other, related technologies that support EMRs, including data integration and data quality software, could also benefit from the increased investment in healthcare-related technology.
"Data management is definitely going to play a big role [in the emergence of EMRs] for a lot of reasons," said Ray Wang, an analyst with Forrester Research who covers both data More... Apr 3, 2009
Increased regulation, according to healthcare users, has hit their industry hard. Harder, most estimate, than regulations in other industries where businesses are more used to staying on top of trends in IT.
In fact, most of the healthcare users SearchStorage.com spoke with had only made the move from DAS systems last year, and then only grudgingly in More... Jan 4, 2006
nothing."
The hospital used to measure some things -- pulling data from its mainframe to create and distribute paper reports, mostly financial statistics. By the time managers got the reports, however, the data was often two months old and some of the reports were "absolutely wrong," Mehyou said. That didn't exactly inspire confidence -- or improve productivity. Jul 20, 2006
complained they weren't getting a unified view of patient data.
And it wasn't for lack of technology. The Norfolk, Va.-based healthcare provider operates hospitals, nursing homes, assisted care facilities and physicians' offices in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. It had provided doctors with patient information electronically, first More... Jun 20, 2006
For years, industry analysts, vendors and users alike viewed data warehousing -- with its promise of a unified view of an organization's most crucial data -- as the holy grail of business intelligence (BI) data sources. "[Unfortunately] it just hasn't played out that way," said Forrester Research's Jim Kobielus. Data warehousing's failure to become the be-all and end-all of BI More... Mar 30, 2009
Technologies Inc. has unveiled new support for Universal Data Models in its ER/Studio data modeling tool.
The San Francisco-based software vendor says the data models, which were designed by data modeling expert and author Len Silverston, improve consistency while reducing data model development and maintenance time. The company also hopes that the new More... Nov 8, 2007
unemployment rate continues to inch up, demand for certain data management professionals, including data warehousing pros and business intelligence (BI) analysts, remains high, according to a new report.
Information and data architects, those who design data warehouses and data marts and set organizations' data management and governance policies, are More... Aug 26, 2008
of its OEM partners to add semi-structured and unstructured data integration capabilities to its PowerCenter platform.
Informatica will pay approximately $55 million in a cash transaction to acquire privately held Itemfield Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based data transformation vendor with a research and development team in Israel. Itemfield's technology enables More... Nov 27, 2006
products in actual production environments. Continuous data protection (CDP) is so new that most vendors were extremely hesitant to offer user feedback. Storactive Inc. and Revivio Inc. proved to be pleasant exceptions -- quickly arranging input from a variety of their product users. We hope to publish other case studies of CDP use as other vendors provide customer
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IBM this week released a new set of data management software and services as part of its Information on Demand initiative, which aims to help companies make better use of data throughout the organization. Among the offerings are 18 industry-specific "Information Agenda" guides and in-person workshops designed to address the most common More... Sep 4, 2008
Prior to its recent BI initiative, UHN was using a homegrown data warehouse of its own, but, like anything homegrown, it had been developed in an ad hoc fashion. A network of three teaching hospitals –Toronto General Hospital, Toronto West Hospital, and Princess Margaret Hospital – all located in downtown Toronto, the data warehouse lacked important data More... Feb 21, 2008
Fla. -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City had a real data governance problem on its hands a few years ago.
Due to mounting pressure from competitors, the well-known insurance provider realized it needed to get better information and self-service capabilities to its customers, including its insured members, employer groups and healthcare providers, many More... Oct 30, 2007
expand to disparate locations, and ultimately merge, data redundancies that threaten not only the efficiency, but ultimately the good legal standing, of a business inevitably occur. That is why having consistent and reliable data is no longer a luxury, it is a requirement. Enter customer data integration.
We define CDI as the process of consolidating and More... Feb 16, 2006
different approaches to the same goal
Financial data management tool eases compliance pain Financial data management software vendors claim to reduce compliance costs via workflow and data quality tools. Users say the software helps them save money -- and sleep soundly. Regulatory compliance and the DBA: What you need to know DBAs need to understand More... Aug 4, 2006
usage. These regulations affect a number of industries from healthcare to financial services.
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A report by CitiFinancial earlier this week, that personal data on 3.9 million customers had been lost by a UPS courier, made a splash on newswires -- but users said implementing the correct security solution isn't easy. CitiFinancial was the latest in a growing list of companies that have found their data security compromised in recent months, including Bank of More... Jun 15, 2005
computers from a branch office holding customers' private data, touching off an in-depth audit and flurry of lawsuits from victims.
"Physical theft is one of the last things people think about," said Watts, president of NetFusion Inc., a Los Angeles-based network support and security consultancy. "Prevention is so much cheaper than thinking 'It won't happen to me.'" He More... May 5, 2005
tape there. With the daily horror stories about compromised data, customers and employees are demanding that companies get their data security houses in order.
Customers should be burning mad, say experts. Companies that hand personal information over to third parties, such as public accounting firms, are responsible for preventing that data from getting into More... Sep 20, 2006
edge, early adopter. Certainly not when it comes to master data management (MDM).
But as MDM gains traction in industries like financial services and pharmaceuticals, among others, more federal and state agencies are beginning to test the waters, implementing MDM systems to improve their identity management capabilities. Public sector agencies are using MDM to More... May 15, 2008
We've learned a lot about customer data integration (CDI) in 2006. CDI is now widely recognized as a subset of the master data management (MDM) discipline, and the CDI software market is maturing, according to Gartner's Magic Quadrant. But as companies deploy CDI, they're also finding that there's much more to it than technology. Data governance More... Dec 13, 2006
When it comes to customer data, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Gartner Inc. now refers to customer data integration (CDI) software, which helps companies consolidate data from disparate sources to gain a "single view of the truth" about customers, as master data management (MDM) for customer data. But, whatever you call More... Aug 6, 2008
EMC Corp. will introduce a new product this week for data classification of files that stitches together components from its acquisitions of Legato, Documentum and Smarts and aims to help users get a better handle on managing unstructured data.
Two years in the making, Infoscape borrows the discovery engine from Smarts, which finds all file servers and More... Sep 19, 2006
kind of storm, this one involving the privacy of personal data belonging to the many residents forced into shelters. When nearly 2,000 residents of New Orleans were rushed into the George R. Brown Convention Center and 25,000 into the Superdome in Houston, they readily gave up personal information to the Red Cross, expecting it to be used by officials to help
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kind of storm, this one involving the privacy of personal data belonging to the many residents forced into shelters.
When nearly 2,000 residents of New Orleans were rushed into the George R. Brown Convention Center and 25,000 into the Superdome in Houston, they readily gave up personal information to the Red Cross, expecting it to be used by officials to help More... Oct 13, 2005
to talk about the single version of the truth," Hostmann said.
Data demons Data quality is a major inhibitor of BI projects, which can cause user distrust and abandonment of the system, Friedman explained. Flawed data can also have dire effects on a business. "Bad data truly does breed bad decisions," he said. Potential solutions include implementing tools and More... Apr 7, 2006
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