Archive for December, 2009

Gearing Up for Data Governance

Are you planning to start new data governance initiatives soon? We’ve recently launched a series of webinars to give you all the fundamentals you need to start your project right.

Challenging Your EMPI to Do More

In this economy, it’s all about doing more with the resources you already have. Healthcare organizations are challenging their embedded EMPIs to do more to improve patient care – and the bottom line.

Unraveling the Knot

Often, authorities have a lot of information about a given person of interest. However, when each piece of data is tied to a different application, how do you unravel the knot to enable information sharing?

MDM as a Technique to Prioritize Data Quality Problems

Don’t get stuck in an endless loop of analysis and paralysis. Learn how to leverage MDM as a tool to address – and prioritize – your organization’s data quality problems.

More Nuts and Bolts for Entity Resolution Success

When evaluating entity resolution, what must you take into account? This is part two of Jonathan McDonald’s list of the tools you need to succeed.

DCIPA Fulfills Vision of a Connected Healthcare Community

DCIPA needed a highly secure and reliable patient identification system to integrate its more than 60 individual practice management systems and other disparate health and clinical information sources across the single-chart electronic health record enterprise.

Principles for Building Data Governance Policies

MDM is a great place to start, improve or re-energize your data governance initiative. But success requires a focused plan. These principles are a good guide for building your data governance policies.

Agencies Sharing Information with Entity Resolution

One of the largest entity resolution implementations to date is the FBI’s National Data Exchange (N-DEx) Program – a criminal justice information sharing system that will provide nationwide connectivity to disparate local, state, tribal, and federal systems for the exchange of information.

Series: How MDM Helps Data Quality and Governance

With all the discussion around the relationship between MDM, data quality and data governance, perhaps it’s time to step back and evaluate whether we’re asking the right question. This series aims to examine how these important tools and methods should best be leveraged to achieve your business initiatives.

Three Essential Keys to Transforming Health IT

For any hope of successful implementation and adoption of Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology, there are three essential keys: reliability, integration into workflows and cost effectiveness.