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Background Issues on Data Quality

People live in an era of unprecedented data abundance and aggregation. The sheer variety of new information available on the Internet, in databases, and from other sources has changed the way people conduct business, undertake research, and communicate. Most of the changes are positive. Yet, increased reliance upon networked data...

Tags: Data Quality, Aggregation, Abundance, Markle Foundation, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-04-01

Additional Resources

Google's medical push

Google’s Adam Bosworth is on a mission, a medical one, evangelizing that “increased and more targeted use of technology will help improve healthcare for all.”Since December, Bosworth, Vice President, Engineering, has been making a Google case for empowering consumers via health information technology.Below is a summary.“Connecting Americans to Their Health...

Tags: Search, Google Software Applications, Google

Blog posts 2007-04-03

Google's unhealthy medical plan

Google's unhealthy medical planDo we really want our medical data in such a centralized database?Other than convenience of storage and retrieval, I don't see any real advantage for the patients, but major problems.One hacker can bust in to get, potentially, [i]everyone's[/i] data. That kind of breach can make the...

Tags: Benefits, patient, Google Inc., medication

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

Google's unhealthy medical plan

Google audacity never ceases to amaze. What is the great Googleplex conjuring up now?Google is on a medical mission, but it is an unhealthy one.Google wants to create nothing less than individual, dedicated, online databases, to record and store every piece of private and personal data pertaining to “every single...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Google, Culture

Blog posts 2006-12-08

Are we our workers' keepers?

Last week I had dinner with Omid Moghadam [below left] and Anne Chapman of Intel. They had just had an interesting day meeting with a variety of would-be supporters in Washington: The Wall Street Journal had just broken – a week early – the news of a new coalition...

Tags: PHR, Uncategorized, health

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Public getting antsy about laptop thefts

Many years ago, before Web 2.0, web services and XML, Sun proposed the idea of a Net computer, a thin client that would interact with web-based applications and data stored on remote servers. Responding to concerns about storing personal information on a disk controlled by another company, Bill Joy held...

Tags: laptop computer

Blog posts 2006-06-22

PC Forum: Healthcare and IT clash

The Healthcare panel at PC Forum dealt with the challenges using IT as a cure for what ails the system. Carol Diamond of the Markle Foundation lamented that IT hasn't made it to healthcare. She said only 5 percent of physicians and 20- to 30 percent of hospitals currently use...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, health care, open source, information technology

Blog posts 2005-03-21

FBI's technology woes

In June 2002 I wrote about the FBI's technology woes, and the problems in deploying modern business systems persists. A recent NYT story, "F.B.I. Sees Delay in New Network to Oversee Cases," lays out the difficulties with deploying the Virtual Case File system--part of the $500 million Trilogy project--that is...

Tags: FBI

Blog posts 2004-06-27