Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-07-20
By the Infoglide Team
“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.”
Washington Post: Firms slow to embrace cloud computing
“‘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.”
Detroit Free Press: Arrests made for Medicare fraud
“Many of the charges involved home health care companies that billed Medicare for equipment or treatment that many patients didn’t need or never received. In several cases, people who worked for the companies were paid to recruit patients to participate in the scheme. Some persuaded elderly people to sell their Medicare identification numbers, which were used to rip off the system.”
Liliendahl on Data Quality: Data Quality is an Ingredient, not an Entrée
“Fortunately it is more and more recognized that you don’t get success with Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Master Data Management, Service Oriented Architecture and many more disciplines without starting with improving your data quality. But it will be a big mistake to see Data Quality improvement as an entrée before the main course being BI, CRM, MDM, SOA or whatever is on the menu.”
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