“Think about our big data projects. We know that in the same way that the National Weather Service or the development of GPS and satellites created entire new ways that people organized their lives, that in healthcare, for example, there are going to be transformations taking place because of the ability to collect and analyze data and then transmit it in a very individualized fashion …”

– President Barack Obama to Fast Company

In a recent article in Fast Company magazine, President

I recently had a chance to catch-up with Bill Fox, MarkLogic’s new Vice President of Health Care and Life Sciences, to ask for his thoughts on a special Healthcare IT briefing he recently attended at the White House. According to Bill, the Administration is calling on technology companies to get involved in the development of fast, nimble apps that can be deployed quickly across underserved health populations …

National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved

Bill Fox received an

Language discrepancies like these are but two examples of how clinical notes may differ from practitioner to practitioner – let alone facility to facility. Further, one facility may identify patients through a number system – while another system may use a combination of letters and numbers.

These are just two examples of why sharing patient records is a healthcare nightmare in general – but it is far more pressing for

This week we had the privilege of being a sponsor at the Security Through Innovation Summit in Washington DC, presented by our friends at Intel Corporation. This event brought together Government IT and industry leaders to discuss topics related to Cybersecurity, Big Data, Cloud, and Virtualization, among others.

Jonathan Bakke, our Senior VP of Global Services, participated in a panel discussion on the topic of Maximizing the Value of Big Data Analytics, with government executives from