The above video presents popular baby names for US states from 1910 to 2014, starting with girl names. In 1910, the records show that Mary was the top female name and this continues to 2014, where Emma reigns supreme. Unsurprisingly John is the #1 name in 1910, but by…
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Why the Most Successful Healthcare Organizations Take Identity Matching Seriously
Did you know that as much as 30 percent of the data in healthcare information systems is incorrect? Identity matching in healthcare is tricky because names change, people move, and there may be duplicate records for one person. According to a study from Just Associates in Centennial, Colorado, these types…
Implementing a Data Governance Program Starts with This Crucial Step
Newsflash: the amount of machine-generated data will balloon to more than 15 times current levels by 2020. You are swimming in deep pools of data, but your data governance program may not be keeping pace. The critical step in implementing a data governance program is choosing the right tool, and…
When Premium Patient Care Comes Down to Data Quality
Providing premium patient care is as much about providing sound medical information, diagnosis and treatment as it is about data quality. When data quality management is lacking, there are issues that may call data integrity into question. In this respect, data quality management is a best practice that any modern…
Take Our Word for It: Deduplicating Data Points Becomes More Important as You Grow
You have reams of data few people have looked at, no time allocated to clean it and not enough space to store it. Does this sound familiar? If you own or work in a small, growing company, these may be challenges you face every day, and they are only going…
Entity Resolution or Identity Resolution? Here Is How We Distinguish the Two.
By Dr. John R. Talburt Does your organization use data for analytics? Are you trying to? Does your company use internal and/or external data for marketing campaigns, cross sell opportunities or customer analysis of any kind? If your business, institution, or organization is involved in the process of data management…
The Top 5 Questions We Get Asked the Most About Master Data Management
If your company collects data about your customers, your sales, or your marketing efforts, master data management (MDM) should be on your to-do list. Challenges like security leaks and imperfect MDM systems are probably holding you back—but if you are not sure how to manage your data, here are answers…
4 Facts About Entity Resolution That Should Keep You Up at Night
Entity resolution is the vital process of identifying, grouping, and linking digital records. For example, you may have several different versions of your name, address, and phone number in different locations. Entity resolution software for big data simplifies this information. Yet the process is not easy, and can easily go…
Newsflash: Data Governance Is Not Just an IT Problem
Poor data can affect an organization at every level. Supply-chain management, e-commerce, enterprise systems and CRM all rely on accurate and complete data to operate at a high level. But often, data governance strategy is perceived to be an IT tool. In reality, poor data affects every department. Poor data…
5 Critical Components of MDM in EHR
Master data management (MDM) is a clear necessity in the healthcare industry—accuracy is paramount where health is concerned—but that does not mean that just any MDM system will do. There are two types of data management in healthcare: identity data, which looks at patient and provider information, and reference data,…