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Five Reasons Why You Can’t Miss Informatica World 2013
There are many reasons why you can’t afford to miss Informatica World 2013, and below we have selected five to highlight. Let us know which is your top reason for joining us at Informatica World 2013 in the comments below:
Get in the “data integration” know. See and hear about the latest solutions and product updates, including the Informatica Roadmap and see live demos of our latest offerings before anyone else!
Gain face time 1.0. Informatica experts will be standing by in our “Hands on Lab” offering free advice and consulting.
Make your ‘mark.’ 90% of past attendees said that what they learned at Informatica World has an immediate and positive impact on their job and their organization’s success.
Networking. Network with your peers. Informatica World has attendees from around the world.
Rick Smolan. Learn from the author of The Human Face of Big Data how big data makes a difference in your everyday life.
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Next week we are giving away a copy of Rick Smolan’s The Human Face of Big Data on the Informatica World Facebook Page. Check back daily for your chance to win!
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.
Expert Advice for ACO Success: Gain Consensus on Metrics and Use High Quality Healthcare Data for Better Patient Care
It’s amazing how often Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are in the news. This Fierce Healthcare article, Maps of 2012 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations, states that ACOs are “the biggest change to Medicare in decades.” This Forbes’ article, Obamacare’s Accountable Care Approach Reaches 1 in 10 in US, reveals that “more than 2.4 million Medicare beneficiaries will be receiving care from more than 150 ACOs that have signed up to participate.”
Join a discussion with healthcare industry experts about gaining consensus on ACO metrics and using high quality healthcare data for better patient care.
But what do ACOs need to deliver on their promise of giving coordinated high quality care to Medicare patients at the right time, avoiding unnecessary services and preventing medical errors?
Healthcare industry experts agree on two basics required for ACO success. At a minimum, physicians, hospitals and healthcare providers need:
1) consensus on ACO success metrics to measure performance, and
2) access to timely, high quality healthcare data to better manage patient care and track performance.
Without an agreed upon set of ACO success metrics and better healthcare data management, how can ACOs better manage patients and identify and monitor at-risk patients? Without these basics, how can they improve patient experience, outcomes and healthcare costs?
Bridging the gap and reaching consensus on ACO metrics is one of the greatest challenges for ACOs. The good news is there are experts who can help. Please join us on Wednesday January 23rd for a live Let’s Talk Healthcare Webinar: Bridging the Gap: Reaching Consensus on ACO Metrics. Three healthcare experts:
- Senthil Balasubramanian, Manager of Decision Support at University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Maury DePalo, Director of Edgewater’s Healthcare Practices
- Richard Cramer, Informatica’s Healthcare Strategist
will talk about gaining consensus on ACO metrics, monitoring metrics, making adjustments as needed, and leveraging high quality healthcare data to better manage patient care, healthcare costs and performance.
This is the third live webinar in a three-part series: Let’s Talk Healthcare with Informatica and Edgewater:
- On-demand Let’s Talk Healthcare Webinar #1 Analytics for Accountable Care
- On-demand Let’s Talk Healthcare Webinar #2 High Quality Data: the Key to ACO Success
- Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/INFAHC
Queensland Police Service Case Study: Use Your Bad Data To Build A Compelling Data Quality Business Case
Some might think that building a data quality business case is difficult and complicated – but it doesn’t have to be.
Graeme Campbell, former manager of the client services group at Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia
At InformaticaWorld, I had the pleasure of meeting Graeme Campbell, ex manager of the client services group at Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia, where he delivered a compelling presentation titled, Queensland Police Drive Out Crime with Informatica. My key takeaway: build a simple, business-focused and results-oriented business case that inspires action. (more…)
Data Quality Goes Green in Colorado, and on the Informatica Marketplace
A recent trip to a supermarket in Telluride, Colorado struck me as a funny place to find an analogy for data quality, but there it was. You see, supermarkets here require you to bring your own bags to cart your groceries home. Those brown disposable plastic bags are banned here – the town has made a firm commitment to the philosophy of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. By adhering to this environmental philosophy, data integration teams can develop and deploy successful data quality strategies across the enterprise despite the constraints of today’s “do more with less” IT budgets.
In the decade that I’ve been in the Information Management space, I’ve noticed that success in data integration usually comes in small increments – typically on a project by project basis. However, by leveraging those small incremental successes and deploying them in a repeatable, consistent fashion – either as standardized rules sets or data services in a SOA – development teams can maximize their impact at the enterprise level.
Maximize Return On Data Through Data Governance
Are you delivering measurable business value (e.g., compliance/risk reduction; efficiencies/cost reduction; growth; strategic differentiation) from data management programs and investments? Hopefully many of you can say that yes, through traditional investment in data management best practices, skilled resources and enabling technologies you have provided business value. But for many, the business value delivered is often less than promised or anticipated – and it’s even more difficult to get the necessary funding and prioritization to scale the solution to deliver greater value. Why does this business value ceiling exist and why is it so difficult to break through?
Prevalent data management initiatives (i.e., data integration, data quality, data archiving, data masking, master data management, data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics) when managed as tactical, IT-driven efforts often deliver solid returns within the targeted environment or business area. But efforts to scale these solutions to support cross-enterprise objectives often crash and burn. To break through this business value ceiling – and maximize your return on data – senior business leaders must finally accept accountability and establish sustainable data governance practices within the organization. (more…)
Social, Mobile, Cloud, Big Data and … Agile BI
I just came back from MicroStrategy World. There were many conversations about social, mobile, cloud and big data. There was strong interest in cloud, clear adoption of mobile, and some big data adoption. eHarmony had a great presentation about how they handle big data with Informatica, and how they’re starting to use Hadoop with Informatica HParser running on Hadoop for processing JSON.
But that wasn’t the number one conversation. The one topic that everyone was interested in – and I talked to nearly 100 customers and partners over four days – was creating new reports faster, or Agile BI. (more…)
(Data) Champions Are Everywhere
I recently had the opportunity to meet with the board of directors for a large distribution company here in the U.S. On the table for discussion were data quality and data governance, and how a focus on both could help the organization gain competitive advantage in the market. While I was happy to see that this company had tied data quality and data governance to help meet their corporate objectives, that’s not what caught my attention. Instead, what impressed me the most was how the data quality and data governance champion had effectively helped the rest of the board see that there WAS a direct link, and that with careful focus they could drive better business outcomes than they could without a focus on data at all. As it turns out, the path to success for the champion was to focus on articulating the link between trusted data — governed effectively — and the company’s ability to excel financially, manage costs, limit its risk exposure and maintain trust with its customers. (more…)
Cloud-Enabled MDM Comes of Age: Cognizant Delivers First SaaS Solution Built on Informatica MDM
The industry’s first cloud-based solution for master data management (MDM) has arrived, signaling the emergence of a new architectural model for MDM that can offer rapid time to deployment without substantial capital expenditures.
Cognizant, a leading provider of IT and consulting services, is rolling out a solution called Cognizant MDM-in-the-Cloud for Life Sciences. Built using Informatica MDM at the core technology, it’s designed to help pharmaceutical and medical device companies to realize a complete, accurate view of monetary gifts and in-kind transfers made to physicians, including gifts, entertainment, consulting fees, meals, research funding, and more.
Why Lean Integration Is HOT
Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach To Business Agility is nearing its one-year publication anniversary and is already in its third printing – not to mention all the copies distributed through the various eBook formats. The question is why? (more…)