Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-08-10
By the Infoglide Team
statesman.com: Austin takes step toward regional law enforcement database
“The Austin City Council voted Thursday to spend up to $200,000 in federal grant money to renovate part of a Texas Department of Public Safety building to house the Austin Regional Intelligence Center, a central databank of information shared by local law enforcement agencies to help with investigations.”
nbc12.com: ‘Secure Flight’ forcing stronger security measures at airports
“With secure flight you’ll need to provide your name exactly as it appears on your identification, your date of birth and gender. The TSA will use that information to keep passengers safe. ‘They are going to have this information and be able to run it against like five different lists like no fly lists ahead of time so they can stop people from boarding that shouldn’t,’ said Mark Turkelson, owner of Travel Leaders.”
resource shelf: Electronic Health Record Resources Added to Special Queries
“The US Department of Health and Human Services defines an electronic health record as ‘An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one health care organization.’”
Kimball University: Eight Recommendations for International Data Quality
“For the most part, IT organizations are simply reacting to specific data problems in specific locations, without an overall architecture. Is an overall architecture even possible? This article examines the many challenges surrounding international data quality and concludes with eight recommendations for addressing the problem.”
