Archive for January, 2010

Making a Case for Provider Registries or Directories

Historically, little federal or state policy level attention has been paid to managing provider identifies. One exception is the National Provider Identifier (NPI) called for under the HIPAA legislation and promulgated by CMS. Many use cases were envisioned by the organizations, as well as the workgroup members during their open discussion. Let’s briefly look at this heightened demand from a federal and state perspective.

Data Governance Street Cred: Who Has It?

When it comes to influencing your organization’s data governance strategy, nothing succeeds like success. In matters pertaining to data governance, just who has the Street Cred in their organizations? I can recall three examples among Initiate customers who were able to leverage their MDM technology investments to enhance the credibility of their initiative within their organization.

Introduction: Building a Business Case for MDM

Still a business case for MDM remains a significant challenge for many organizations. Many MDM initiatives are entertained and discussed for years and fail to get started because key stakeholders are not able to develop a common vision and reach a consensus on the business case for MDM and justify the investment. This series will explore the challenges, solutions and benefits, drivers and how to estimate value and ROI.

Series: Building a Business Case for MDM

This series explores the components necessary for building a successful business case, the processes involved, and the benefits and ROI.

Does Google Connect the Dots?

Data integration, along with entity resolution and complex event processing, should play a key role in counterterrorism and relieve some of the burden of manual processes that are required today to connect the dots. But can a search engine like Google handle the task?

Keeping Up With Initiate

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What Matters Most?

Ask yourself how often discussions of data governance turn into discussions about data models, data dictionaries, metadata, unified search, uniqueness, enterprise IDs, MDM, BI, etc? How many business leaders care a whit about these topics? Not too many, in my experience. So what really does matter most?

Data Governance Principle #2: “Credibility Matters”

The second principle of data governance is, “Credibility Matters.” While it may seem like stating the obvious, there are three factors in data governance that make your individual (and your team’s) professional credibility especially important in influencing the organization’s overall direction.

Conclusion: Resolving the Confusion of MDM vs Data Quality

Many companies initiate master data programs as part of more generic enterprise data management, enterprise information management and enterprise data quality programs. But how do all these pieces fit together? Larry Dubov sums up his Data Quality vs. MDM series.

Initiate & Accenx – Onwards towards HIMSS

Initiate Systems’ recent acquisition of Accenx will help extend healthcare organizations’ view of patients beyond their facilities’ walls. Michelle Blackmer explains how.