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May 05, 2013
The 18th annual Executive War College for lab managers was held last week in New Orleans. Attendance was at its highest ever and the speakers and sessions were again top notch in sharing best practices, industry trends, and emerging technologies. Two consistent themes emerged. The first was accountable care, and how labs must exhibit their value within an ACO. The second was how labs must compete for the fastest growing segment of the testing business, the outpatient practices.
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Apr 28, 2013
Liaison Healthcare’s EMR-Link team members are headed to New Orleans for the 18th Annual Executive War College on Lab and Pathology Management. Pat Wolfram and Jim Sheils will be there to share their perspective on solving business challenges that clinical laboratories are facing during 2013.
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Apr 23, 2013
CMS and ONC recently released a joint fact sheet that describes progress made as part of HITECH act. According to the fact sheet, eligible hospitals and physicians have participated in the EHR incentive programs in record numbers.
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Apr 17, 2013
When companies look for a Master Data Management (MDM) solution, traditionally, they think of an on-premise software solution. However, this is changing as the amount of data that needs to be managed is exploding in terms of velocity, volume, and complexity (think semi-structure/unstructured data). As more companies begin to leverage cloud-based solutions to take advantage of a cost-model that has scale and elasticity built-in, software vendors are trying to follow suit and move into this space in terms of solution offerings. The net effect of this is a reduced customer experience, in what I like to term “MDM-Lite”. I’ve seen it time and time again in terms of data integration and data management. Companies scramble to retrofit their on-premise offering to fit a cloud-based or SaaS model, and in doing so, the customer is left with only a subset of the product capabilities.
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Apr 09, 2013
As technology and business trends continue to converge, companies are beginning to rethink their IT infrastructure and how best to integrate on-premise with cloud-based services and enterprise applications.
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Apr 08, 2013
Greetings from Beantown and Medical Informatics World 2013!
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Apr 02, 2013
In an Experian study, “Securing Outsourced Consumer Data” produced by the Ponemon Institute it was revealed that 46% of organizations do not evaluate the security and privacy practices of vendors before sharing sensitive or confidential information.
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Mar 31, 2013
In recent years the IT industry has been confronted with the convergence of several highly disruptive trends that are irrevocably changing the technology landscape. Mobility and the rise of consumer-owned devices entering the business IT environment, social media, and the commoditization of information assets have all played a role in the transformation of the industry. But perhaps no shift has been more seismic than the ascendance of cloud and SaaS based applications in the enterprise, and that expansion has, in turn, created unprecedented demand for solutions that can help streamline the integration of these new solutions. Indeed, according to a recent report by analyst firm MarketsandMarkets, the global Cloud Brokerage Services (CSB) market is on track to grow from $1.57 billion in 2013 to $10.5 billion by 2018, a compound annual growth rate of more than 45% over the five year period.
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Mar 26, 2013
Industry analysts predict that in 2013 mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide and that by 2015 media tablet shipments will reach around 50 percent of laptop shipments. A new era of development is on the horizon, particularly in the area of data integration. As the consumerization of IT fully dominates the enterprise IT landscape, many CIOs are concerned with how device proliferation will impact data integration and cloud-based enterprise apps.
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Mar 19, 2013
Information is becoming a critical asset for organizations across the globe. As it increases in value, so too do the number of threats, as well as the number of protocols and regulations from regulatory authorities designed to ensure that businesses adopt the solutions necessary to ensure that information is protected. While a comprehensive, compliant information security initiative does not come cheaply, there are solutions that will help keep costs down even as the challenges associated with protecting this critical business asset continue to grow.
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Mar 12, 2013
Integrating and managing data in enterprises requires people with different skills, knowledge, and vested interests to work together. People build things, not tools; and people make decisions, even if data guides the decision. At Liaison Technologies, as our name implies, we realize how essential the human is for managing and integrating data.
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Mar 06, 2013
Data integration is becoming increasingly challenging for enterprises. While cloud solutions are opening up new opportunities and efficiencies across all segments of the enterprise, integrating data across cloud applications, and between cloud and on-premise applications, must become a priority for enterprises if they hope to leverage the efficiencies of cloud and keep data secure.
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Mar 05, 2013
Data integration, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), is becoming more and more important to SMBs and enterprises when it comes to developing a successful e-commerce strategy, a key area that these businesses are focusing on in hopes to match up with the big name enterprises like Amazon.
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Mar 03, 2013
The G2 Volume to Value Conference is where laboratory managers meet to share best practices in running a lab test business. You’ll see pathology labs, hospital labs, and reference labs represented there. The G2 theme for Spring 2013 was “Redefining Lab Services in a Changing Market” and indeed their market is changing.
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Feb 27, 2013
With an optimistic outlook for merger/acquisition (M&A) activity in 2013, dealmakers are looking for ways to expedite successful transaction outcomes and reduce risk. Data integration and master data management (MDM) should not be underestimated as an enabler for success at every juncture in the M&A process — from the preservation of business continuity to a driver for post-transaction innovation. A successful MDM strategy can even lower the barrier on future M&A activity.
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Feb 22, 2013
No doubt about it, the complexity of integrating IT systems is proliferating. More regulations, diversification and federation of data, and growing security considerations, coupled with the diaspora of on-premise and hosted software, infrastructure, and platform offerings have made efficient integration a challenge.
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Feb 21, 2013
Just a few years ago, “Cloud” was the hottest buzz word around, but if you asked many people – even those who touted themselves as Cloud providers – what “the Cloud” was, they had a hard time coming up with a clear, concise answer. As we move into 2013, however, the Cloud is increasingly approaching maturity in the market as enterprises understand how these services can streamline their IT infrastructure and applications when integrated strategically with on-premise solutions.
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Feb 19, 2013
Since I started Ignis Systems in 1999 as a one-person software consulting organization, I have tried periodically to look at “what comes next”, as difficult as that is when in the middle of running a business.
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Feb 15, 2013
Combination of Claims and Clinical Data is the Holy Grail for ACO Analytics? Direct from Naveen Sarabu from eHealth's Annual Conference, 2013
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Feb 15, 2013
Whether you’re building a network of solution vendor partners to deliver streamlined data and systems integration to your customers, or working with upstream or downstream partners for successful manufacturing and production output, procurement, logistics, risk mitigation strategies, sourcing, financial operations, packaging and distribution, and transportation, understanding your channel and what it means for customers is critically important. The reality is that most businesses today rely on channel partnerships to help them deliver successful outcomes.
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