Archive for November, 2009

What’s Needed for Entity Resolution Success?

Entity resolution technology can provide huge benefits to tracking persons of interest for law enforcement or intelligence purposes. But what makes a good entity resolution solution?

Using Relationships to Improve Patient Care

Knowing key relationships among data can improve patient care. Providers must understand when and where data needs to be routed while identifying the status of a caregiver acting on the patient’s behalf.

Entity Resolution 101

Identifying and tracking down persons of interest is one of our greatest challenges. But as we’ve recently been reminded, threats can come from anywhere – including from citizens.

Data Governance Principle #1: “Win Early”

“Win Early” is what happens when MDM generates results, eliminating inefficiencies and redundancies, streamlining complex and error-prone business processes and saving the organization money… and doing so in a way that gets noticed by executive sponsors and stakeholders. It’s essential to your data governance efforts.

Immigration and Border Control – Keeping Out the Bad Guys

Entity resolution helps Immigration and Border Control manage the flow of data to ensure timely border crossings while also helping ensure the bad guys don’t slip through the cracks.

Getting the Most Out of Your MDM Initiative

Let’s say your MDM initiative is underway, and you’re making good progress. You’ve implemented your MDM hub, and made several data quality and data governance changes. But what’s next?

Poll: What type of electronic patient data is toughest to share?

What type of electronic patient data is the most difficult to share across all points of care?

Integrating MDM into the Data Warehouse

Organizations that really want to take advantage of a higher performance, more agile and lower cost data warehouse architecture should implement master data management (MDM) to improve data quality.

Extending the Business Impact of EMPI

Healthcare organizations are trying to maximize the value of existing technology and improve financial and clinical performance under tight fiscal constraints. If you’re already using an EMPI, it’s time to figure out how to do more with existing assets and infrastructure.

Blank Data Management – Just Like “The Match Game”?

It seems like with all the popularity these days, people everyone are putting in front of Data Management, resulting in an entirely new alphabet. Regardless of how you fill in the blank, there are three keys to remember.