Archive for October, 2009

Taking a Sensible Approach to “Meaningful Use”

Drastic measures, like scrapping existing systems or locking in with a single vendor to achieve “meaningful use” are expensive, resource intensive and won’t necessarily get you where you need to be by 2011. What will?

Poll: Your Greatest Challenge for Health Information

What is your greatest challenge in maintaining health information across your enterprise? Take our poll!

Part 9: The Business Case Analysis

A business case analysis must always come first when working on your multidomain MDM strategy. What are the first questions that your enterprise architect should answer?

Accuracy – How Come No One Talks About It?

I find it interesting that despite the fact that an organization’s most critical business processes depend on high quality master data, vendors don’t really talk about the “accuracy” of their MDM solutions in enabling that master data to be accurate and complete.

A Document Registry for Patient Data Sharing

The capability to locate and link documents and images that comprise a patient’s medical history is critical to the foundation of interoperability and clinical data exchange. What’s unique about Initiate’s document registry?

Data Governance: “What’s Important Now?”

“Governance” is a social and political problem, more than a technology problem. So, in order to meet the social and political dimensions of data governance, your technology and IT strategy must be accompanied by a parallel business and political strategy.

The Problem with Data Warehouse Ecosystems

Most data warehouses have been implemented using an overly cumbersome and brittle architectural approach, relying on too many tightly-coupled parts which need to operate on ever-increasing quantities of data of dubious quality.

Improving Border Security with Proactive Intelligence-Based Risk Profiling

Border security agencies are challenged to determine passenger intent to accurately identify threats. Working with limited data, however, agents assemble risk profiles based on a combination of attributes to help make this determination.

Building an MDM Glossary

We’re starting a glossary of terms related to master data management. Have we missed anything? Please include your input in the comments.

National Instrument’s MDM Project Links Worldwide Customer Data

National Instruments launched a customer data integration project to address business issues resulting from duplicate and disparate customer data. Learn about their experience and success to date.