A large problem with value based repayments is not just a patient care problem, it’s a technology problem. At the core it’s really a data problem. Healthcare organizations continue to face challenges with record matching. New York’s Medicaid program is working to overcome challenges with it’s value-based payment models at the…
California Data Privacy Law and What That Means
May, already? Time flies. Industries are continuing to move forward and data is growing, the same as it has been in recent years. With that data, legislation and regulation around it is also progressing, as most recently seen by the California Data Privacy Law that goes into effect in 2020….
Our Team Published a Book Chapter
Spring time update, we’re running forward here at Black Oak Analytics. As regulation increases and interoperability in health care continues to be a growing concern, we’re taking a moment to look back at last year. Testing in Hadoop MapReduce Black Oak Analytics co-founder Dr. John R. Talburt, lead data scientist…
2019 Challenges in Patient Record Matching (and Entity Resolution)
GAO says there’s problems with patient record match quality. We’ve been saying this for a while. Here at Black Oak Analytics, we are interested in all things related to entity and identity resolution, across a variety of industries. We recently came across a PEW article from January, 15, 2019 “GAO…
Happy New Year! Identity Resolution and Upcoming Regulations
Welcome to 2019 everyone. Here at Black Oak Analytics, we focus on entity resolution software, which means resolving entities and determining which ones on are the same and which aren’t. For example, are two pieces of fruit both apples? Or an apple and an orange? Even more specifically, HiPER…
Essential Trends in Data Integrations
Data integration is a critical component in modern information management- here’s why. Whether you are a leader, manager or end user, you want to access data across multiple sources stored in disparate silos to get a complete picture of the organization. What developments create outside risk? What patterns can you…
High Performance Entity Resolution for for Retail [VIDEO]
The retailers that we deal with are, again, Fortune 500 companies. They have multiple lines of business. They have optical, they have a money store, money transfers, money orders. They have their regular retail, they have their online retail. A challenge that they have is each one of those systems…
Data Driven Solutions for Credit Reporting [VIDEO]
Credit reporting agencies use identity resolution and matching to figure out what really belongs to your credit profile. It’s not as simple as just taking a social security number and saying, “These are the purchases you’ve made.” Another example that impacts us all on a day to day basis, whether…
High Performance Entity Resolution for Mergers and Acquisitions [VIDEO]
In a bank mergers and acquisition, there is always the customer overlap. That becomes a regulatory compliance, customer service issue, and customer retention issue. Also there is always redundancy in the product lines. So what products from bank A that is acquiring bank B should survive the merger? Which products…
A Closer Look at Black Oak Analytics [VIDEO]
We founded Black Oak about a decade ago to address the challenge of large, complex data sets and the ability to link all of those records together. In the mid-80’s, I ran a mortgage banking operation and one of the things that we did was buy loans from multiple suppliers….