“The EHRs are designed to be digital replications of the hard-copy, paper health records commonly in use today. They are also engineered to be easily transferable among different doctors and hospitals so as to eliminate the creation of duplicate or disparate records among different health care providers, thus allowing any health care office to access a patient’s complete medical record at each visit.”
“‘There’s an awful lot of talk about it and there is consumption of cloud,’ said Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC. But ‘organizations don’t simply make change because they can. There has to be good justification.’ Harry Weller, a general partner at New Enterprise Associates, said start-ups and new businesses will likely be among the first to move to the cloud. A need to hold down costs is often an overriding factor in their decision, he said.”
“I don’t think anyone knows what product is the best match engine, because I don’t think that all match engines have been benchmarked with a representative set of data.”
“It’s important to realize that SOA is really a rather loose collection of best practices. It’s not necessarily a well-defined list where you have some checklist of things to do SOA and if you miss one, you’re not doing SOA. What’s happening is architecture teams are incorporating SOA best practices into various other initiatives.”
“The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is on track to assume watchlist matching from all U.S. carriers by the end of May, only slightly behind its March 31 U.S. implementation target for the Secure Flight passenger prescreening system, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. The Secure Flight program also calls for TSA to assume watchlist matching from foreign carriers, and the agency already is working with 19 airlines outside the United States to do so. Five of those carriers are fully functional within the program, and an additional 14 are testing, GAO reported.”
“Currently 80 to 90 percent of all medical records are stored on paper. The goal is that have an electronic health record for everyone in the U.S. by 2014. Electronic health records are expected to greatly reduce the number of medical errors, which is significant. Each year in the United States, as many as 100,000 people die in hospitals because of such errors. That’s the equivalent of one major airline crash every single day of every single year.”
“Investing in business intelligence is important for a company now more than ever, agreed Bill Barberg, president of Insightformation and an expert in Balanced Scorecard methodology. Sound business intelligence helps companies make fact-based decisions as they try to navigate in today’s stormy economy, he told CRM Buyer. “Business intelligence can help companies make much better decisions,’ he said.”
“In Part 3, you will continue your adventures by using a combination of field values and field formats to begin your analysis of the following fields: Birth Date, Telephone Number and E-mail Address.”
“Increasingly, organizations are designing SOA into the MDM architecture from the beginning, says Dan Power, president and founder of consulting firm Hub Solution Designs Inc. in Hingham, Mass. This creates challenges in meshing the real-time realities with the need to keep the data accurate.”
“Linda Kloss, AHIMA CEO, said many vendors have not focused on developing legally defensible EHR systems. In addition, health care providers have not created a demand for such functionality.”
“Let’s face it - There are technology limitations. Operational BI (Lack of real-time data access), Guided analytics (Lack of comprehensive business metadata), Information as a Service (Lack of SOA based BI architecture) are some of those technology limitations that come to my mind.”
“Some 72 percent of respondents said they have seen an increase in organized retail crime (ORC), and 52 percent said they had experienced a rise in financial fraud. Paul Jones, vice president of asset protection for RILA, noted that the increase in ORC should set off alarms not only within the retail community, but also within the business and law enforcement community. Organized retail crime typically involves organized groups of criminals operating shoplifting rings which have networks to fence their stolen goods, which may also appear on Internet auction sites like eBay, as well as at flea markets.”
“So now is the time to examine your driver’s license or passport to see that your first name, middle initial (if you use one), and last name appeared exactly the same across all of your identification. If you need a new photo for your driver’s license, now is the time to get it. Being consistent with your name also means that all of your bookings - including air, hotel, and car rental - must be consistent.”
[Jim Harris] “Enterprise Data World is the business world’s most comprehensive vendor-neutral educational event about data and information management. This year’s program was bigger than ever before, with more sessions, more case studies, and more can’t-miss content.”
“In my March 25, 2009 post “The Myth of Matching,” I discussed the confusion between entity resolution and matching as in record de-duplication. Matching is a necessary part of entity resolution, but it is not sufficient.”
“‘I think we will see a growing number of applications that use data from the public Web as background knowledge to offer better search capabilities and to augment local content with additional content from the Web of Data.’”
“‘Many of these were the types of cases where the lottery investigator would need to ‘make the case,’ ‘ the report said. ‘Most of the time they didn’t even try.’ The report also said that even when the lottery discovered cases of fraud or theft by retailers, the retailer wasn’t held accountable.”
“We don’t have to choose between security and liberty. In order to be effective, intelligence activities need to be narrowly focused on real threats, tightly regulated and closely monitored.”
“Sometimes, the business comes forward and says “we’ve got to have the single view of the customer”. Sometimes, IT sees it as a way to become more agile and to reduce system maintenance costs. It is pretty clear, though, that MDM initiatives are more likely to succeed when they’re driven by the business, even if it may have been originally initiated by IT.”
“In a previous post I talked about the two sides of entity resolution - locating and merging. Before continuing the discussion on entity extraction, let’s briefly revisit the issue of merging, in particular the popular misconception that matching or record de-duplication is the same as entity resolution. Matching is a necessary part of entity resolution, but it is not sufficient.”
“The additions to the Transportation Security Administration’s ‘cleared list’ reflect an influx of requests from people asking to be removed from the watch list. The watch list database has expanded 32% since 2007, to more than 1 million entries. The cleared list has grown because about 99% of the fliers seeking to be removed from the watch list were never on it…”
“SOA in and of itself holds little value to an organization unless it provides the capability to open up information to the enterprise. As is the case with SOA, successful MDM is a silo-breaker, invoking collaboration across the enterprise. MDM helps assure that the information populating SOA-based services is accurate, timely, and consistent.”
“The introduction of free flowing information open to all in the form of a blog is a great way to communicate and share information and ideas. I especially appreciate the opportunity to push ideas and concepts around in an open forum, in agreement or disagreement.”
“We received a comment on our recent post that contrasted identity resolution with data matching that I can’t let go unanswered. Here’s what the respondent said…”
“Let’s not allow Master Data Management (MDM) to become just another silo of data! MDM and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) together, create a strong partnership in your enterprise architecture.”
“Hagen is a Gulf War veteran who also worked for police departments in Edison and Point Pleasant. In February 2007, he filed a worker’s compensation claim for a knee injury that he purported to sustain on Oct. 27, 2006, by slipping off a curb while on patrol that day. In reality, he admitted in court Friday, he hurt his knee while playing a pick-up basketball game at the Mountain Lakes YMCA.”
“Lopez, a former van driver and chiropractic assistant for Kaplan Chiropractic Corp. on Sutton Street in North Andover, is considered the mastermind of at least a dozen accidents being probed by the task force, according to investigators. Clinic operator Michael Kaplan, of Hampstead, N.H., was indicted with Lopez several months ago by a special grand jury probe initiated by the state attorney general’s office.”
“By 2010, 20% of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via software as a service (SaaS) as a standard component of their BI portfolio. Information aggregators will increasingly rely on SaaS to deliver domain specific analytic applications built from industry data they collect and shift the balance of power in the BI platform market in their favour.”
“In reflecting about 2008 in this last post of the year, it’s been great to see identity resolution (aka entity analytics or entity resolution) grow into a unique, identifiable market. We started developing identity resolution technology in 1996.”
“As to employee fraud, there is a relatively small amount involved in the individual claim when compared to employer fraud, which potentially involves hundreds or thousands of fraudulent transactions. The wider the net, the more the fraud. When thousands of employers across the country intentionally fail to pay required workers’ compensation premiums or misrepresent the job classification of employees who are covered, the fraud perpetrated on the system vastly exceeds the dollar amount of employee fraud.”
“Using the figure of 60,000 sellers (from the OLG’s court testimony), together with the spending factor of 1.5 (from the Fifth Estate and CRA surveys), we would expect that, in the absence of fraud, lottery sellers would win about 57 of the major prizes between 1999 and 2006 — far less than the 200 they actually won.”
“Still, software spending will grow by 6.6% in 2009 to $244.3 billion, Gartner predicts, revising downward its previous forecast of 9.5% growth. Companies will delay or even cancel SOA projects, but software aimed at optimizing how organizations are run, such as business process management and master data management will fare better, Gartner says.”
“A Woodbury man who authorities say misrepresented his wage by doubling it when applying for disability payments was arrested Friday. Nicholas P. DeGrazia, 59, of Pilgrim Trail was arrested on a warrant charging him with workers’ compensation fraud, according to a press release from the state division of criminal justice.”
“Applying generic algorithms to data attributes with wildly varying characteristics simply can’t match the accuracy of applying a family of deterministic analytics, each built around specific characteristics of a particular attribute type.”
“So it appears that the data itself plays a crucial role in the lack of an integrated customer view. Or more accurately, the better the data - the better the customer view. And the better the matching of customer records across separate systems the better the integrated customer view. So Data Quality and Matching (Identity Resolution) determine in large parts the quality of the integrated customer view and the added value that it delivers.”
“Investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, posing as gun enthusiasts, twice visited SMS. Those visits consisted primarily of small talk about guns and ammo. McGraw discussed some pistols that he had recently sold and invited one of the investigators to bring in an allegedly defective gun, telling them he would ‘take a look at it.’”
” Rather than trying to remodel the data warehouse to accommodate fresher and more detailed operational data (near real-time activity in operational systems, process logs, etc.), these data sources will operate in parallel (or horizontally, whichever word you like) as complementary feeds to analytics. It takes too long and is too expensive to expand the data warehouse concept to do this.”
“Horton is charged with making false statements and submitting false testimony to the Workers’ Compensation Board to receive benefits. She claimed that an April 2006 back injury she suffered while she was a health aide prevented her from working or attending school. Investigators learned that she was attending school full-time.”
[Andrew White] “Clearly, if every SOA-based application interaction had to incur the costs of data reconciliation, mapping, clean up etc, then the cost of building and maintaining that SOA-based application would exceed what it costs today without SOA. The bottom line: SOA needs MDM to help with the evolution of the information infrastructure.”
“Since January 2007, the fraud unit has received 1,703 case referrals for review from those in the insurance industry and private citizens. After reviewing the referrals, field investigators have been assigned 397 cases to pursue. During that time, [West Va. Insurance Commissioner Jane] Cline said, 292 criminal cases have been referred to various prosecuting authorities, as well as in-house prosecutors who have been assigned to the unit on a full-time basis. Further, the fraud unit has secured indictments on 84 individuals for 294 felony counts and successfully obtained 73 convictions, including 45 in 2008.”
Infoglide Software provides entity resolution and analysis solutions for retail, banking, insurance, government, and law enforcement. Without the need for data cleansing or warehousing, Infoglide Software's Identity Resolution Engine™ (IRE) analyzes all of the information relating to individuals and/or entities from multiple sources of data and then applies...
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