Archive for April, 2011

Measuring Education Success with Longitudinal Data Systems

How can you use data to determine which children are more likely to graduate from college or drop out? Can you use that same data to predict whether students in accelerated programs will succeed in the workforce? Alex Eastman explains the challenges faced by educators, and how longitudinal data systems can help.

Detecting Fraud with Insights into Identity Data

Rick explains how InfoSphere Identity Insight can help detect fraud by offering insight into your data. Find out how you can move beyond MDM by answering three key questions about identity: Who is who? Who knows who? And who does what? MoneyGram is already doing this and has demonstrated a 72% drop in consumer complaints about fraud.

Overcoming the Challenges of HIT Data Exchange

How can we establish the value of data exchange for healthcare? Lorraine Fernandes shares a recent interview with HIT Exchange.

Analytical MDM in Daily Life: Making Data Work For You

How can you use analytical MDM to make the most of all your personal data? Stephan examines ways to set up workflows and reports – and offers a vision for future energy consumption that saves money.

Changing Healthcare: How the Privacy Discussion Must Evolve

I’ve done a lot of reading about privacy over the past few days as I prepare for a webinar, “From Sea to Shining Sea: The Healthcare Privacy Discussion – California and National Perspectives.” My health information colleague, April Robertson, and I are presenting this April 28 webinar for the California Health Information Association (CHIA). In [...]

Good Ideas, Natural Language and the Speed of Thought

Jarrett explores how natural language processing can free up our minds to focus on bigger problems, improving our speed of thought.

What’s Harder: Starting or Sustaining MDM?

What’s more difficult for an enterprise to tackle: starting an MDM initiative, or sustaining one after the initial enthusiasm and budget have waned? Larry Dubov examines both sides and looks for your feedback.

Webinar: Combining OLTP & Extreme Data Warehouse Performance

Join InformationWeek for a complimentary webinar on April 14 and learn how you can combine OLTP with extreme data warehouse performance to achieve cost-effective warehouse scalability and performance.

Keeping the Momentum: Analytical MDM

Analytical MDM is a living thing that will continually evolve as your organization’s needs change. But what happens when the momentum wanes? Stephan has strategies for keeping aMDM rolling.

Conclusion: Quantifying Assets

Larry offers concluding thoughts on how to quantify information assets as part of a comprehensive information governance initiative.