by Andrew White | May 2, 2013 | 1 Comment
Print edition, Wall Street Journal, May 2nd 2013: Poor Prognosis for Privacy. Fascinating article that can be summed up with one quote: “ “The reality is, our ability to exchange electronic information is already well beyond our ability to control it,” says John Leipold, CEO of Valley Hope Technology in Norton, Kan., which makes electronic [...]
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by Andrew White | November 28, 2012 | Comments Off
I had no presentations today but I had a near full schedule of 1-1s and inquiries (clients offsite). One question that popped up in several vendor 1-1s this event concerned Master Data Management and Big Data: What is the impact of MDM on Big data or big data on MDM? What is the connection between [...]
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Category: Data Governance Data Stewardship Healthcare Information Governance Information Trust Master Data Management MDM-Summit-NA Tags: MDM-Summit-NA
by Andrew White | September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
This program was meant to have provided for a “fully integrated electronic care records system across the NHS”. As reported today in ComputerWeekly.com, it seems this was just too hard to do. The decision was to cancel the national program and encourage each regional GP’s to choose their own IT systems. Ouch. So one central [...]
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by Andrew White | June 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
My colleagues at Gartner are always keen to remind me that structured data represents only about 5 to 10 per cent of an organizations information, the rest is made up of “unstructured” data. But a quick call with my colleague, Mark Beyer, will show that there is no such thing as unstructured data. For any [...]
Category: Content Management EHR Healthcare Master Content Management MDM Metadata Management Tags: Master Content Management, MDM, Metadata, Metadata Management
by Andrew White | June 21, 2011 | Comments Off
I was reading my monthly Health Data Management magazine and two articles fell into my lap. One concerning PCAST “universal exchange language” that promises to provide informational interoperability across the healthcare systems, and the other concerning electronic health records. PCAST published a report (Report to the President Realizing the full potential of Health IT to [...]
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Category: EHR Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Healthcare PCAST Tags: EHR, Healthcare, PCAST
