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Feb 14, 2013
Hype, Trend or a Fad? From eHealth Initiative 2013 by Gary Palgon - direct from eHealh's Annual Conference, 2013
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Feb 07, 2013
Data security is everything to businesses, and protecting critical data at the source is one of the best ways to keep your business secure, instead of relying on firewalls and access control alone. In addition to focusing efforts on encryption and key management, businesses should also consider tokenization.
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Jan 28, 2013
Some companies reorganize so often that it seems they can't get their act together. Yet some of those companies keep doing well, often really well. Perhaps those companies reorganize because they outgrew their previous structure and think that reorganizing will let them grow more.
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Jan 24, 2013
According to Gartner’s newly released Competitive Landscape: Integration Brokerage (IB) report, the worldwide market for integration brokerage services was expected to hit $1.5 billion by the end of 2012, and the five-year compound annual growth rate from 2011 through 2016 will be in the double-digits. Driving this record growth is the increasing appetite among IT users for functionality from their service providers that goes far beyond just B2B transport, to integration between cloud services, as well as between cloud services and existing on premise systems.
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Jan 22, 2013
With data security top of mind for many companies these days, Liaison is proud to announce that our Protect Token Manager solution has been named a finalist the Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards in the Innovation in Enterprise Security category. According to Info Security “the Global Excellence Awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.”
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Jan 10, 2013
In October I blogged about the role that data requirements are playing in driving new ACO spending, a key metric in evaluating how quickly ACOs can achieve their ultimate goal of better, cost-effective healthcare delivery. Recently, the Commonwealth Fund released a report that included healthcare data management in its list of factors that assess ACO readiness.
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Jan 08, 2013
As we enter 2013, the healthcare industry will continue to see great emphasis on value-based care and the exchange of health information. Here are three healthcare trends and three life sciences trends to watch for in the upcoming year.
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Jan 08, 2013
Thomas Kuhn, in his classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, showed how innovation often comes from outsiders, from people not entrenched in the thoughts and practices of a group. Virginia Postrel suggested that innovation comes from "the margins", from the boundaries of two or more things. In the world of entrepreneurs, the idea has been further refined to suggest that at the start of something new the market realities are not known, and that at times an organization needs to pivot, to change the value propositions it offers in the market.
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Dec 20, 2012
My wife and I were in Vegas recently on a little R&R getaway when I sat down at a slot machine. After a few minutes, I started thinking about the evolution of the slot machine and how that reminded me of changes in how applications are hosted and share data.
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Dec 19, 2012
There are few technologies that have the power to impact a business or industry more than business intelligence (BI) software. Yet, it wasn’t long ago that BI was unattainable for all but the largest IT budgets. The on-premise tools were expensive — costing as much as $1 million to install and bring online — and usually required an ongoing commitment to consultants to maintain. Furthermore, these costs didn’t include the resource burden required to transform “intelligence” into measurable outcomes.
Times have changed.
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Dec 17, 2012
During the course of my career, I’ve seen many predictions made over the years. One trend I continue to see having ripple effects each year is the increasing complexity, specifically for integration of systems and the resulting data management challenges. Over the past decade we’ve seen complexity grow across a variety of dimensions, from privacy regulation related to healthcare and financial data, to the timeliness of data needs from distributed supply chains. With data volume, variety, velocity and therefore complexity increasing, companies are beginning to realize that their integration and data management needs are at the heart of their IT architecture.
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Dec 14, 2012
Knowing why something went well last time is a tremendous asset for succeeding next time. When something doesn’t go well, growth comes from figuring out the reasons why. As my uncle Neil says, “If you aren’t failing 10% of the time you aren’t trying hard enough.” But if you don’t learn from that 10%, you are throwing away a better future.
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Dec 11, 2012
With an expected 1.2 billion mobile devices in the hands of consumers next year, working on the go from a mobile device is the new norm. Married with this increased mobility is also the customers’ need for increased visibility into their network, with accurate and detailed information available on the go. At Liaison, we’ve embraced this and are proud to announce that we’re making our Liaison Enterprise Navigation System (LENS) available for the iPad and iPad mini.
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Dec 10, 2012
Could you or your colleagues be the weakest link in your organisations efforts to improve security?
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Dec 06, 2012
Paul Dottle, CIO of American Express Company, wrote an insightful article "A New Way to Assess Software Risk" in today's CIO Journal. For instance, he discusses automation to analyze source code complexity before an application is tested, rather than measuring quality by how a program runs.
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Dec 05, 2012
You know it's going to be a day filled with interactive dialog when the opening speaker says "Healthcare today is all about brand, money and ego and that needs to change". We need to get more competitive on technology transfer (get innovations to the bedside quicker), need to create a safe environment for doctors to practice where they don't fear lawsuits in everything they do (or don't do) and have courage to stay hungry in making change (there's lots of barriers to overcome).
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Nov 27, 2012
While speaking before the Commonwealth Club in California, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said that his audience should think about data in new ways, but that first required setting the data free. After the meeting, he referenced companies offering to integrate and manage data from different healthcare providers, creating easy-to-understand data packages for doctors, patients, and healthcare innovators. If the data is set free from its different silos, it can be much more useful.
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Nov 19, 2012
As my family begins preparing for this week’s Thanksgiving feast, I noticed today the vast complexity that is required to pull off a successful gathering. From precisely integrating the correct ingredients at just the right time, to accounting for all of your guests’ dietary preferences, Turkey Day is not easy. Much like planning for your upcoming holiday gathering, B2B integration can be a complex and burdensome task for many organizations. Especially when it comes to integrating on-premise and cloud-based systems with business process automation across systems, maintaining applications and business rules can get tricky.
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Nov 12, 2012
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA have issued the results of their survey, revealing how organisations feel about the “cloud”.
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Nov 09, 2012
It's Day 2 at the Bristol-Myer Squibb IT 12th Annual Symposium in Princeton, NJ and while many people here are still without power from Hurricane Sandy and we had 4+ inches of snow from the Athena Storm last night, it's not enough to scare people away from the great presentations and discussions going on. The conference theme, Connecting the Drive Inside, is meant to inspire the attendees to match the realities of what they do to the visions of where they want to be.
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