As discussed in my last post, The Quality and Communication Critical to Patient-Centered Care, one of the main technology barriers to providing patient-centered healthcare is the painfully common conundrum that patient data is often housed in a number of disparate systems across multiple locations. To ensure the quality of care mandated by healthcare reform requires close communication and collaboration among all stakeholders across the patient’s continuum of care. However, as we recently saw

I met with a friend of mine the other day who, when it comes technology subjects, I like to say – “she knows enough to be dangerous.” During our lunch she asked me about Hadoop and if I could explain it to her because in her mind it was like teenage sex – “everyone is talking about it but very few people are actually doing it.”

I couldn’t help but laugh at the analogy and on one level I think she is right.  I participate in a lot of meetups around Dallas/Fort Worth and many of these

Over the years, I have often considered how my doctor sees me. His questions always seem narrow and never truly focused on anything beyond the moment. He will often list facts and stats, but none that really seem relevant to me. After a recent visit, it occurred to me that our relationship was based on a demographic “picture” he had of me. This picture allowed my physician to hypothesize about my health and habits – without real facts. And, as it turns out, by relying on his

Over the years, I have often considered how my doctor sees me. His questions always seem narrow and never truly focused on anything beyond the moment. He will often list facts and stats, but none that really seem relevant to me. After a recent visit, it occurred to me that our relationship was based on a demographic “picture” he had of me. This picture allowed my physician to hypothesize about my health and habits – without real facts. And, as it turns out, by relying on his

I recently attended the webinar When Relational Databases Aren’t Enough. Hosted by MarkLogic’s Matt Allen, and his guests, John Myers Managing Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Jim Driscoll, principal technologist at MarkLogic – this insightful webinar was targeted toward attendees of Oracle Open World 2014 and anyone else, myself included, curious about the differences between RDBMS and Enterprise NoSQL. According to John Myers, relational databases aren’t