Data + Intelligence

I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago about patient-powered research and I want to follow it up with a focus on population health. Population health efforts are intensely data-driven and require more data than is captured between the walls of hospitals or clinics. I’m working on an initiative right now to plan out […]

System interoperability and integration is critical to healthcare organizations. Their ability to coordinate care across the continuum with integrated data solutions and streamlined data sharing supports population health management initiatives and makes accountable care a reality. Using Informatica Powercenter/ Powerexchange for Mainframes as an ETL tool, Perficient has helped healthcare organizations achieve enterprise-wide ODS’ for […]

As companies transform their businesses to be data-driven and leverage the benefits of Big Data, they quickly realizing that lack of Big Data centric data scientists and wranglers is blocking their value attainment.  One of the limiting factors in Big Data resources, are the skills that have typically been required to leverage Big Data.  Java and […]

In a blog post earlier this year, I discussed the increasing role data security is playing in the world today.  As mentioned in the article, 2014 was dubbed the “Year of the Data Breach”.  Around the time of the post, Sony had just been hacked.  Subsequently we learned there was credible evidence the cyber-attack was […]

I was at the Population Health Colloquium this past week presenting with @LesliAdams from Oracle’s HSGBU Strategy Team discussing the age old question of “Who champions the EDW in a hospital setting?” Our presentation explored four types of change (Evolutionary, Disruptive, Imposed and Deliberate) and how all are needed in Healthcare. Group polling revealed that […]

How do we engage patients, coordinate care, improve quality, lower costs and share savings all at once? A group of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) will be in Baltimore this week discussing this and other topics on establishing and sustaining ACOs. One of the challenges of forming and sustaining ACOs is establishing shared goals and shared […]

I was pleased to see that Healthcare Cost Management was a hot topic in the healthcare agenda for the Oracle Industry Connect event this past week. The agenda was packed with experts from Providence Health & Services, Ascension Health System and Kaiser Permanente discussing how they are all leveraging technology for automating and evolving their […]

With an Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) subscription, you get accesses to two instances: Test and Production. The test instance can be the initial playground where the upfront development work is carried out before pushing the developed components to the Production instance. The development work may entail creating tables in the Oracle Cloud Schema […]

I recently got published in the Special Big Data Edition of CIO Story (see page 20), where I talked about the “six” essentials for transforming into an Information-driven organization. Information is a hot commodity. Research suggests that in the next two to three years, businesses will begin to apply monetary value to their information assets […]

All of this focus on the Internet of Things (IoT) is really about the “Internet of Me” (IoM). From social media sites to smartphone apps and GPS systems, loads of data are being generated today about individuals – their interests, their travels, their behavioral patterns, their purchases, and so on. No one in this digital […]

Advanced analytics has a home in banking and financial services, but it transcends the traditional use of Excel and OLAP to run trend-lines on revenue and cost as they affect the classic Profit and Loss statement.  While macro trends are important to the financial services professional, two more important challenges involve: understanding the customer at […]

The field of process control has changed radically over the last 20 years. Back in the day, it was not uncommon to view process control as simply the exercise of reading a time trend line to see if a defect rates were rising or falling based on outlier activity around the classic Shewhart control chart.   […]