Data is the lifeblood of the modern economy. Thousands of data points generated by each person are helping many industries deliver better products and services—online retailers suggesting and shipping ...

Standardizing patients’ last names and address information in EHRs can lead to more effective matching of an individual’s health records, according to a paper published in the Journal of the American ...

For scientific investigation, observational and instrument-derived data is the lineage of information which provides knowledge that enables managers to make strategic and tactical data-based decisions ...

The open data movement has grown in leaps and bounds during the Obama administration, but efforts to standardize that data are only in their infancy, experts say. Waldo Jaquith, former director of the ...

Getting a number of vendors to talk to each other, let alone align, is no easy feat. Adding academics and researchers does not necessarily make things easier. Now try adding to the mix a fragmented ...

Product standardization is a key method hospitals and health systems can use to improve efficiencies and cut supply chain costs. However, it must be approached strategically. One way healthcare ...

Many, if not all, highly regulated sectors comply with reference standards that are cited by legislators but developed, updated, and peer reviewed by teams of industry experts. This means that these ...

ccountants spend too much time moving data from one financial reporting spreadsheet to another, leaving less time for analyzing information to enhance reporting integrity and improve management’s ...

Data underpins the Pentagon's CJADC2 concept, but experts say cultural barriers stand in the way of the services sharing their data. (Alejandro Peña/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s ...