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…
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…
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,…
How Can You Know if HiPER Is Right for You?
Choose Right Proprietary Data Management System Today, implementing the right clinical data management solutions is critical. But how do you know what those are? High Performance Entity Resolution (HiPER) software is an advanced entity resolution solution that can provide configurable and accurate data management. When you evaluate HiPER, we will…
Why We Aren’t Writing a ‘2017 Big Data Trends’ Think Piece
Moving Past Trends If you are looking for theory and conjecture concerning your data, you can find it quite easily. There is no shortage of people claiming to know the “latest big data trends of 2017.” But do they really help you in moving forward with your data in 2017, or will…
Do You Know How Many Customers You Really Have?
Without proper customer master data management, it can be difficult to determine the scale and type of client that you have or that you wish to acquire. One of the major problems with tracking customers is trying to determine how to improve poor data quality: without data that is clean…
The Biggest Problem in Data Quality Management Today
As data-driven companies attempt to create a single view of customer interactions across a wide variety of platforms, many chief data officers are encountering a serious data quality management problem. The three components of master data management (MDM)—entity resolution, entity identity information management, and master data systems of record—must work…
Master Data Management Strategy: 3 Essential Components
Every data point that your company has at its disposal can either be an asset or a liability. When used in a well-planned master data management (MDM) strategy, the records you collect and associate with patients, clients, or customers become actionable metrics that can spur growth. However, if your data…
Black Oak Analytics Hosted HiPER Training At UALR’s Institute for Chief Data Officers
On September 29, 2016, Black Oak Analytics hosted a hands on HiPER training at UALR’s Institute for Chief Data Officer’s (iCDO) first offering of Course CDO-1: Foundations for Chief Data Officers. The first three days of training included lectures on essential knowledge for CDOs including current research, data technologies, data…