With increased mergers and acquisitions, hospitals, hospital systems and Integrated Delivery Networks face significant challenges to aggregate and compare colossal datasets, identify problems, and ...

A key theme that has emerged concerns the need for the public safety community to figure out ways to harness the tremendous amount of data that could be available to emergency responders. As recently ...

Simply defined as the “transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information for business purposes,” business intelligence (BI) is critical for your company to understand where it stand ...

Since Hillary Clinton’s spearheading of what she called a “gender data revolution” in 2014, numerous initiatives have been launched to generate more and better data on the lives of women and girls. We ...

Data silos are a government efficiency and cybersecurity killer. Agencies that operate in silos lack cross-department collaboration and experience data fragmentation, both of which can result in ...

What can big data do for health care? And does it hold the same promise of new insights that it holds for other industries? A new Optum™ infographic shows what big data is and isn’t. And it shows that ...

Chief marketing officers (CMOs) agree that successful brands use customer data to drive marketing decisions; moreover, 87% of marketers report that "capturing and sharing the right data is critical ...

When Americans make decisions — like whether to pack an umbrella or prepare for a hurricane — they rely on clear, timely, and ...

According to an HBR article, marketers depend on data for just 11% of all customer-related decisions. While it’s hard to assess what this number actually means (i.e., what were the types of decisions ...

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are dangerous. Sepsis, for example, which can result from an HAI, is the leading cause of death in hospitals, accounting for nearly 270,000 deaths in America each ...