Black Oak Analytics Announces Strategic Agreement with Equifax Relationship will allow Black Oak Analytics’ HiPER Reference for Healthcare product to now feature referential matching using Equifax consumer insights. Little Rock, Ark., January 6, 2020 – Black Oak Analytics, an identity resolution and patient matching software company, has entered into a…
Patient Attribution and eMPI, the Foundation on which Interoperability is Built
The amount of healthcare data being produced on a daily basis is staggering. It is estimated that approximately 30% of the entire world’s stored data has been generated by the healthcare industry. A single patient typically generates close to 80 megabytes annually in imaging and EHR data. IDC estimates that healthcare…
Value Based Care and Patient Attribution
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…