Archive for September, 2011

Addressing U.K. Health IT Post-NPfIT: 4 Key Components

Now that the UK’s National Health Service has announced it is dismantling its Programme for IT, how can healthcare and government organizations collaborate to successfully treat patients? John Crawford recaps four key components from a recent King’s Fund conference.

Martin Hubel: DB2 Availability in a Faster, Global World

IBM Champion for DB2 Martin Hubel discusses how DB2 and databases have evolved to meet increasing availability and performance demands. Listen to the podcast, part of our ChampionSpeaks series.

Improving Cloud Security with Data Masking

If I asked you what IT mandate is keeping you up at night, chances are, you would mention something about the cloud and then quickly joke that there is no sunshine in the forecast. Take comfort in knowing you are not alone. Organizations are struggling with this. Depending on who you talk to, cloud computing [...]

Engaging Health Providers for Exchange

Health systems must engage providers to ensure they have the right information about patients. But how can they overcome numerous barriers to exchange? Chad Cosper looks at the infrastructure for managing provider identities to enable better sharing.

The Business Case for Information Governance at Health Plans

Health plans have a lot to gain from information governance, but it can be tricky to articulate the benefits, especially when they’re “soft” and hard to quantify. Sunil Soares and Bob Leo offer guidance on building a business case, offering examples from their extensive experience with health plans.

Security, Privacy and Openness

Data security and privacy continue to converge as they share the common goal of protecting data from unauthorized access. But how do you reconcile the need for security and privacy while ensuring necessary information is shared quickly to those who should have access to it? Bryan looks at the challenges of protecting data through an example of data redaction.

Customer Information Governance Improving Retail Operations

How can information governance improve retail operations in the retail environment? Sunil Soares and Kurt Wedgwood share five great examples.

Customer Motivation Management 101: Householding

Stephan explains how the holy grail of MDM is to become “Customer Motivation Management.” The first step to achieving CMM is Householding: capturing social and commercial relationships among groups of individuals to identify patterns.

Creating the Right Dashboard: Ced Bufton

IBM Champion for Information Ced Bufton knows that a dashboard alone isn’t the answer to data management ills. We interviewed him about how the healthcare industry can proactively leverage data to actual make things better.

Oil & Gas: The Business Value of Information Governance

The Oil & Gas industry has barrels of data to manage critical parts of the business and keep the oil flowing. Sunil and Arild preview their ECIM session on how the industry can use Information Governance to improve their data quality while making smarter use of the data.