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Informatica World Healthcare Path
Join us this year at Informatica World!
We have a great line up of speakers and events to help you become a data driven healthcare organization… I’ve provided a few highlights below:
Participate in the Informatica World Keynote sessions with Sohaib Abbasi and Rick Smolan who wrote “The Human Face of Big Data” — learn more via this quick YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5d9ArRLJE&feature=player_embedded
With more than 100 interactive and in-depth breakout sessions, spanning 6 different tracks, (Platform & Products, Architecture, Best Practices, Big Data, Hybrid IT and Tech Talk), Informatica World is an excellent way to ensure you are getting the most from your Informatica investment. Learn best practices from organizations who are realizing the potential of their data like: Ochsner Health, Sutter Health, UMass Memorial, Qualcomm and Paypal.
Finally, we want you to balance work with a little play… we invite you to network with industry peers at our Healthcare Cocktail Reception on the evening of Wednesday, June 5th and again during our Data Driven Healthcare Breakfast Roundtable on Thursday, June 6th.
See you there!
Zoom in to zoom out: The big picture in information management
We’ve been spending a lot of time here at Informatica preparing for Informatica World. That means taking a big step back to take the broader view of all the change happening in the world of information management and data integration today. New data sources and new data technologies are emerging almost daily, and the pace is only accelerating. Our mission is to help our customers and our market not only cope with all this change, but to harness it for competitive advantage.
But even as we’re putting together the latest take on the big picture, we’re also zooming in on the technology “secret sauce” which makes it possible to manage all this change. Informatica has the “secret sauce”– it’s what makes our architecture unique, and it’s what allows us to deliver the most value to our customers.
I’m not going to tell you what the “secret sauce” is now– you have to come to Informatica World to find out. Our executives including Sohaib Abbasi, Ivan Chong and James Markarian will be laying out the big picture, as well as revealing the “secret sauce.” And I’ll be diving in to more details in my Informatica Platform overview breakout session.
I hope to see you in Vegas next month. (by the way, the special hotel rate ends this Friday May 3rd, so register today!)
A Big Hairy Audacious Vision
Integration technologies have been around for 20 years (as long as Informatica has been in business) and have proliferated in corporate IT. We are now at an inflection point in the business needs and maturity of integration best practices which we can call Next Generation Data Integration (DI). If we’re going to talk about the next generation, then first we need to put a stake in the ground to describe the current, or prior generation. Furthermore, for it to be a “generational” change, it needs to be a significant step-function improvement in how the work is done and in the business value generated by data assets. Or as Jim Collins said in Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, we need a Big Hairy Audacious Goal. (more…)
Great Interview with Ochsner Health System
HISTalk published a recent interview with Ochsner Health System CIO, Chris Belmont. Chris and his team are great Informatica clients and I really like how he conveyed the benefits of making Informatica the data backbone of their Epic implementation. I can’t say it any better than Chris already has so I’ve extracted a few take-always below and you can read the entire interview here
On the importance of migrating legacy data into the new EMR: “Informatica was critical in getting us there. We learned on the first site. We thought it was a good idea to go in there with an empty slate and say, let’s just build it all from scratch and start with a clean slate. Let’s make sure the record’s in good shape. We quickly realized that was a bad idea. Not just in the clinical areas, but in the registration area.”
On the value of Application Retirement: “That’s going to be a big win for us. In fact, we’re targeting about $13 million in operational benefit when we turn off those legacy platforms. Informatica is going to allow us to get there.”
On not ever being 100% Epic: “We’re watching it, but frankly it will be a while – and I would argue never – that we’ll be 100 percent Epic. A lot of the data that we have that Informatica allows us to get our hands on and load into our warehouse is non-Epic data.”
On the nuggets Informatica is helping them to uncover: “We’re correlating a lot of data, not just from Epic, but I think right now we have like 25 different systems that we’re running through Informatica and into our warehouse. The gold nuggets that are coming out of that data are just tremendous.”
On challenges and opportunities: “It’s going to be, how do we do more with the data we have…having that data in a format that’s easily, quickly, and very accessible is going to be key. Gone are the days where you can throw an army of analysts in a room and say, “Give me this report” and you wait three weeks and they give you something that’s less than optimal. I think the days of, “Tell me what I need to know before I even know that I need to know it” — I think those are the days that we’re looking forward to. With the tools we have with partners like Informatica with their tools, I think we can achieve it.”
Meet Chris and his team in Informatica Booth 5005 during HIMSS 2013.
HIMSS 2013 — right time, right place, it’s on!
Learn How Ochsner Health System is Unlocking the Potential of Data in Booth 5005
Nothing tells a more compelling story than a happy customer. This is why we are excited to have Ochsner Health System join us during HIMSS. Jonathan Stevenson, Director of Analytics and Data Management, will be in Informatica booth 5005 sharing the Ochsner Health System accountable care plans, the analytics vision, success to date and lessons learned.
Ochsner Health System is Southeast Louisiana’s largest healthcare delivery network with eight hospitals, thirty eight health centers, over twelve-thousand employees and hundreds of applications. This data resides in disparate clinical and operational data silos. This is a challenge for an organization that has been chosen to be one of the early shared savings program participants. The requirements for success include knowing what’s happening with patients outside of the four doors of Ochsner, forming community best practices and knowing where patients are seeking care. (more…)
Data Chaos: Public Enemy Number One
This year marks the 20th anniversary for Informatica. Twenty years of solving the problem of getting data from point A to point B, improving its quality, establishing a single view and managing it over its life-cycle. Yet after 20 years of innovation and leadership in the data integration market, when one would think the problem had been solved, all data had been extracted, transformed, cleansed and managed, it actually hasn’t — companies still need data integration. Why? Data is complicated business. And with data increasingly becoming central to business survival, organizations are constantly looking for ways to unlock new sources of it, use it as an unforeseen source of insight and do it all with greater agility and at lower cost. (more…)
Some Things Change and Some Things Stay the Same
I joined Informatica five months ago — it didn’t seem like the “I’m new here card” kept things slow for very long and now, being four weeks from HIMSS, I’m in the middle of a familiar flurry activity. Each year, I am reminded that times change, the location changes, where I am working may shift but some things stay the same. At the top of the stay the same list is the passion we all have for healthcare IT… oh, and the familiar faces I look forward to reconnecting with!
Let me tell you a bit about what we have planned for HIMSS 2013. In the coming weeks, we will make exciting product announcements so watch this space. As a precursor, download our latest whitepaper on Healthcare Data Management.
Next, and probably the highlight that I am most excited about, we have one of our customers joining us during the conference. With a prominent NOLA presence, Jonathan Stevenson, Director of Analytics at Ochsner Health System, will be in our booth. Jonathan will share the Ochsner analytics vision and accomplishments. Ochnser relied on the Informatica Platform to migrate data from 38 clinical applications into Epic and then designated Informatica as their enterprise integration platform. As they enter the next phase of their analytics journey, the platform plays a key role in enabling business, clinical and IT collaboration with the ability to streamline development and improve confidence through improved data quality.
We are also excited to increase our booth presence this year and with two partners joining us to exhibit their solutions. The first being HighPoint Solutions and the second being announced closer to the show. Together we will demonstrate joint offerings and examples of innovations in healthcare.
HIMSS would not be complete without social events. One in particular that I want to mention is a meet and greet reception, Monday, March 4th 6:00pm-8:00pm; we are co-sponsoring with dbMotion. If you’d like to attend, contact us via jshafer@informatica.com. If you can’t meet us at our booth, please let us know and we’ll be happy to arrange a separate time to meet.
Watch this Ochnsner YouTube video and then stop by booth 5005 and learn how Informatica can help you to unlock the potential of your data. Stop by to find out how you can win daily cash prize giveaways.
As always, please feel free to post comments or questions.
Big Data is Your Data – Are You Ready?
What is big data? Simply put, it’s data that is big, it’s your data when it gets big. And for most of you, that’s already happened or inevitable. Regardless of how you define big data, a more important question is “Are you ready for big data?”. Without some careful consideration of your data architecture, when faced with big data challenges you may find yourself writing some big checks as you scramble to address the new demands on your business. Fortunately not all is lost. As many Informatica customers have already learned, next generation data integration can help arm you to handle big data without ripping and replacing your existing data integration architecture. (more…)
Top Seven Favorite Quotes From Lean Integration
The Kindle has a nice feature that is virtually impossible with paper books; it combines the highlighted sections of text (in essence an electronic yellow highlight marker) from all readers and identifies the passages with the greatest number. The View Popular Highlights function shows you passages that are meaningful to the greatest number of people. Here are the top seven highlighted quotes from Lean Integration[1] as of the end of 2012. (more…)
Evolution: The General Store to the Individualized Shopper
The retail industry has seen a major transformation since its evolution. Tracing back to the 18th century where the concept of retail was limited to a “general store” the industry has now grown to the concept of the “individualized shopper.” Initially, the power lay with the merchants, then it was shifted to “brands” and then to “big-box chain stores.” Today the power has shifted squarely to the consumer. This new consumer is empowered – primarily through online and social channels – with nearly limitless options on their path to purchase. The industry is beginning to recognize that the experience they offer, whether in store or online, must be centered on this new consumer reality. (more…)
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