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Lack of EHR standards hampering healthcare data analytics
Today is the first day healthcare organizations can report meaningful use data to the government for electronic health records (EHR) systems reimbursements. So you might think that with all this newly digitized patient data, it shouldn’t be long until doctors and clinicians start applying data mining and predictive analytics to improve patient care. Well, sort ...
It’s Time to Bring Unstructured Content in from the Cold
For too long, unstructured content has played the role of neglected stepchild in the world of business intelligence (BI) and data analytics.
U.K. government says ‘no thanks’ to free data analytics services
It’s hard to believe that a cash-strapped government would refuse free data analytics services that could potentially help it save significant taxpayer money and improve its credibility with the public. But that’s just what the British government has done. First, some background. Not unlike the U.S., Britain is grappling with yearly budget deficits and a ...
Open Source, Support Services Key to Big Data Deployments
Big data is all about storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of distributed, unstructured data. It is also, at this point at least, all about open source. Hadoop, the open source distributed computing file-system for big data storage and processing developed by Doug Cutting at Yahoo!, is now part of the Apache Software Foundation community. ...
Cloudera’s upgraded data management platform brings Hadoop a step closer to the mainstream enterprise market
Just because a technology is largely open source doesn’t mean a vendor can’t build a (lucrative) business around it. Just ask Sun Microsystems. </aJust because a technology is largely open source doesn't mean a vendor can't build a (lucrative) business around it. Just ask Sun Microsystems. Cloudera is attempting to do just that with Hadoop, ...
EMC: ‘Big Data’ More Than Just Data Analytics
The ability to analyze large volumes of unstructured data, it turns out, is just one of the benefits of the big data era. The ability to actually use unstructured data – including audio and video content – is pretty important too. Last week, for example, Apple announced it was purchasing 12 petabytes worth of storage ...
ClickFox Applies Analytics to Map the Customer Experience
Integrating social media data analytics with customer relationship management (CRM) software has been getting a lot of attention lately, the latest development being Salesforce.com’s acquisition of Radian6. But an Atlanta-based company called ClickFox is betting on a different type of CRM-related analytics it calls customer experience analytics. While social media analytics aims to help companies ...
Let’s Talk About Data Security…Please!
I’d be remiss if I didn’t touch on the massive data breach at online marketing firm Epsilon. Obviously, this is a big deal for the company and for its customers, JP Morgan, Walgreens and Target among them. It’s a public relations nightmare for them and Epsilon, in particular, will forever be associated with what could ...
Metadata, at the Heart of Microsoft’s Complaint Against Google, Key within the Enterprise, Too
When you hear the words metadata, your eyes might be tempted to glaze over. Don’t let them. While not as sexy as predictive analytics, enterprise search and other advanced data mining techniques, metadata management plays a key role in the world of big data. Need proof? Microsoft today said it plans to file a formal ...