Jack Santos

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Entries Categorized as 'Information Management'


Data Quality for Hospitals: if you can get it

by Jack Santos  |  October 13, 2010  |  Comments Off

One of the themes of our Data Management Strategies group is around Data and Information Quality.  We (Gartner IT1) sponsor and participate in the annual MIT Information Quality Symposium.  That’s what makes IT1 a bit different among the Gartner offerings – not only do we target our research at the practitioner, but we also feels [...]

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Category: Healthcare Information Management IT Governance Managment     Tags: ,

Data Breaches and Clothes Closets

by Jack Santos  |  September 16, 2010  |  Comments Off

A friend of a friend of a friend passed along a 500 Mb thumb drive the other day.  It came through a series of hands (starting with a cleaning lady), and was looking for someone that might understand the implications of this find. As it turns out, it’s a data breach.  Or what we in [...]

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All the news…

by Jack Santos  |  August 3, 2010  |  Comments Off

One of my research efforts these days is around information quality – we are actually going through client (and non-client) interviews on the state of information quality within organizations.  A conversation at our recent Catalyst conference highlighted the amount of information that we actually need to keep – and manage the quality of.  It goes [...]

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Category: Fun Information Management     Tags: ,