Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-04-11
By the Infoglide Team
Liliendahl on Data Quality: What is a best-in-class match engine?
“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.”
ITBusinessEdge: SOA Spending on the Rise. Surprised? Here’s Why
“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.”
[video] KENS5.com: UT Health Science Center helps bring medicine into computer age
“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.”
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