by Jack Santos | December 27, 2010 | Comments Off
One of the healthcare IT hallmarks of the last 2 years has been the increase in regulatory reporting requirements for healthcare providers, not only because of the 2009 HITECH act, but also because of jurisdictional reasons (FTC reporting versus HHS reporting) and reporting at the state and local level. In fact, just a glance at [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management IT Governance security Tags: culture, Healthcare, information, management, security
by Jack Santos | December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
“Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour” Matthew 25:13 For only the second time in my short 15+ year internet life, I have found myself to be the target of a hacker, and dealing with a serious personal security breach. I post the details here, in the hopes it helps others [...]
by Jack Santos | December 17, 2010 | Comments Off
A few weeks back a friend pointed out that many people are confusing the use of “coherence” and “congruence”. (Not me, I hope!). So on this anniversary of William Safire’s birth, let’s review the basics (definitions from Encarta). Coherence: to be logically or aesthetically consistent so that all the separate parts fit together and add [...]
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by Jack Santos | December 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Our Data Management guys in the Gartner IT1 offering do a lot of research on data – in all its forms. They are looking at things like “Big Data” and “Data Clouds” and “MODS” (the Methodology for Overcoming Data Silos). My cohort, Mike Rollings, passed along this link: http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/. It really is very interesting, and [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Information Management Tags: Cloud, consumerization, data management, information, Predictions, Strategy, UI
by Jack Santos | December 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
OK. I’ve succumbed. A week ago I said to myself “avoid, at all costs, commenting about the Wikileaks story – especially on the blog”. That was before 249 internal emails on wikileaks (and counting). There is just so much in this event that our research has foretold, or that has proven our advice to clients [...]
Category: Externalization Future governance Information Management management Managment Predictions Strategic Planning Tags: Cloud, consumerization, culture, information, management, Predictions, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | December 7, 2010 | Comments Off
The last 15 years of the evolution of online communication mimics the transformation of advertising over the past 60 years. Advertising seems to have gone from 2 minute commercials to 60 second to 30 second, to 5-10 second. Online, we seem to be emphasizing documents less (long form), email is on the outs (its for [...]
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Category: Information Management management Managment Tags: culture, management
by Jack Santos | December 3, 2010 | Comments Off
As the repercussions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) begin to hit the street (during many company’s 4Q benefits enrollment period) it’s often that I am hearing complaints over the complexity of employer healthcare plans. Well, to borrow a cliché: IT practitioner, heal thyself. I wonder if the complexity in healthcare plans is due in [...]
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Category: Healthcare Information Management Tags: Healthcare
