Flexible, modern database technology will play a crucial role in the advancement of integrated, consumer-centric healthcare delivery.

In my last blog post, I discussed my plan to attend the 2016 HIMSS16 conference in Las Vegas. I wasn’t disappointed. This year’s HIMSS event, like those of the past, provided an energetic and educational platform for patients, physicians, payers and Health IT professionals to explore and evaluate the technological advances of today and on the horizon of

Relational Data And The Lagging Healthcare Revolution

For over two decades we’ve been told about a coming revolution in healthcare – but it never seems to arrive. Relational databases may play more of a role in preventing the revolution than anyone suspects.

In Part I, I wrote about healthcare IT’s reliance on decades-old relational database technology. In Part II, we look at why the relational database makes

With the goal of enabling clinicians to capture the richness of narrative clinical documents and making them actionable at large scale and in real time, M*Modal currently supports over 1,000 hospital systems, thousands of concurrent users, 36,000 queries and millions of transcription documents each day. Built entirely on MarkLogic, M*Modal innovatively leverages our agile new generation database technology to improve the satisfaction of both physicians and patients alike. By utilizing

For over two decades we’ve been told about a coming revolution in healthcare – but it never seems to arrive. Relational databases may play more of a role in preventing the revolution than anyone suspects.

When I first joined a healthcare consulting practice in 2010, our team leaders were incredibly excited that health data would usher in a new era of improved care and clinical innovation. Data, they felt, was the key to unlocking a healthcare revolution. Data would turn mere patients into smart

From outcomes-based payments and mHealth to EHRs and massive mergers, patient self-service portals and data-driven innovation, HIMSS16 is the place to learn and exchange knowledge on all of today’s challenges and solutions in Health IT.

The inexorable march of technological innovation has blazed a trail through every industry in its path over the past decade. Healthcare is undergoing a technology revolution making it a