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A Security Framework Deadline Passes with Little Notice

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Hydrakos

Another data disclosure fiasco is in the news now. Data from fitness monitors is apparently giving away troop and base locations around the globe. It is somewhat surprising given the frequency of disclosures like this that a fairly significant deadline concerning information security just passed

Posted in Governance, Strategy

ARE DATA STANDARDS ABOUT TO TRANSFORM EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY?

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Hydrakos

A while back I commented on the lessons the Financial Services industry data standardization process might offer to the Healthcare industry. Since then I’ve become actively involved in another standardization effort, this time in K-12 education. At the recent annual summit of the Ed-Fi Alliance,

Posted in Governance

BIG DATA BASED METRICS ARE REPLACING TRADITIONAL MEASURES

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Hydrakos

The landscape for gathering information around public health and public opinion has seen some dramatic changes. Some of them are obvious, that Twitter reflects in real time virtually any event that is happening, for example. Some are less so because they involved an evolution from

Posted in Trends

SOCIAL MEDIA SENTIMENT MEASURED IN REAL-TIME

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Hydrakos

The trend watcher, Dan Burris, can usually be counted on for an observation that will cause a number of seemingly unrelated data points that have floated amorphously on your radar to coalesce into something concrete. Such was the case recently when he pointed out that

Posted in Trends

ONC’S HEALTHCARE IT VISION: ON COURSE OR ALONG FOR THE RIDE?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Hydrakos

Last June the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a report called “Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure.” Its vision for the future is of an “interoperable health IT

Posted in Strategy

DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF BIG DATA

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Hydrakos

In his book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread, Alex Pentland, sets his sights on, among other things, “entire cities” as targets for solutions based on Big Data. Pentland defines Social Physics this way: “social physics seeks to understand how the flow of ideas and

Posted in Governance