Archive for May, 2010

The Yellow Pages of Healthcare: Registries

How does the XDS Registry fit into a health information exchange? How does it work in concert with a PIX/PDQ Manager to resolve patient identities? Bill Klaver equates an XDS Registry to your local yellow pages.

Measuring What Makes the Business Tick

You must be able to monitor and measure the progress you’re making in improving data quality. But while you need to establish goals for data quality improvement and track your progress, you must also ensure that they reflect the organization’s corporate goals.

Building an MDM-Powered Customer On-Boarding Solution

The first few months of your relationship with a customer are critical. Sales has set high expectations for your firm to close the deal, and now the customer will be getting their first impression of your operations. Karl details how to leverage MDM to build an on-boarding solution that can improve your customers’ experience.

Four Different Perspectives Align on Healthcare Reform

After attending a panel discussion on healthcare reform, Penny reflects on how competing organizations agree on four common goals. The panel called for innovation and cooperation to improve patient care and discussed several interesting ideas.

Letting Go: Decommissioning Systems and Applications

Since MDM is often considered in part to increase efficiencies and streamline processes, you should also consider removing or excluding systems and applications as part of your MDM implementation. Larry explains how to ensure you’re including a strategy to remove obsolete systems in your MDM roadmap.

A Roundtable Discussion: Roadblocks & Strategies for Improving HIE

We recently hosted our 4th Executive Summit with our partners Allscripts and dbMotion. The resulting roundtable discussion proved very interesting, as executives shared their roadblocks and strategies for improving health information exchange and, ultimately, patient care.

The Technology Behind the Solution: PIX/PDQ to the Rescue!

Once you understand the theory behind building an HIE solution, you must begin to understand the technology itself. How do you get content creators to share data with content consumers? Bill Klaver explains how a PIX/PDQ Manager can bridge the gap.

Measuring What Matters

Marty responds to recent chatter about how much data quality really matters to the average business. Specifically, how do you find out what data is actually used? Who feels responsible for the data? And how can we articulate the need for data quality?

Entity Resolution Taken One Step Further: “Spot The Difference”

Jarrett Goldfedder breaks down entity resolution into terms even his 7-year-old can understand. Can you spot the difference between ponies? If so, you can understand and apply the basics of entity resolution.

See You at DoDIIS

We’re very excited about one of our favorite conferences – DoDIIS, which begins next week (May 23-27) in Phoenix. Jeff Huth previews Initiate’s activities at DoDIIS – we hope to see you there!