According to this Healthcare Finance News article, about $280 million in hospital readmissions penalties will be paid by 2,213 hospitals this year.  This is a result of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  It’s also a killer use case for data integration. “The key to effective [...]

  Recently I paged through the Channel Marketer Report, and found an article by Lance Speck, VP and General Manager, Integration Products, Pervasive Software. He had some sound advice around the strategic use of data integration technology that’s worth repeating and expounding upon. He and I are clearly kindred spirits. “What is your data integration [...]

While the reasons vary from enterprise to enterprise, most in IT must deal with new challenges now, and in the coming years.  These challenges include data compliance, the rise of cloud computing, and the emerging use of Big Data, just to name a few.  As existing challenges remain, and new challenges emerge, it’s time we [...]

Big Data is the hyped buzzword around the growth of data analytics.  However, data analytics grew quickly over the last 10 years, and the movement to Big Data technology was more of a catalyst than an enabler.  Indeed, we’ve been on a path to getting much better at data analytics in recent years, driven largely [...]

Many in IT don’t understand how much better data integration software has become in recent years, and how this technology is much more cost effective.  The close comparison would be the advances and cost reductions made in consumer electronics.  These days you can buy a 40” flat screen for about $400 from any Costco, when [...]