Achieving HITECH Meaningful Use and Certification for Data Management Professionals

What Healthcare Data Architects, Developers, and DBA’s need to know about achieving HITECH Meaningful Use and Certification

The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Stimulus Bill passed in 2009, establishes 25 major “Meaningful Use” (MU) requirements that all electronic medical records systems must implement in order to have their users qualify for billions in government incentive money. These MU requirements will change existing and future implementations, affecting nearly all healthcare architects, developers and DBAs developing these information systems.
Join healthcare IT expert, Shahid Shah, for an insightful webinar on the impacts of meaningful use, certification of electronic health record systems, and what this means to data management professionals.
Date: Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern

In this one hour webinar, you’ll learn:

• What ARRA, HITECH, Meaningful Use (MU), and Certification mean
• How technical personnel such as data architects, DBAs and developers will be affected by MU
• The best ways to determine the MU gaps that might be found in existing systems
• Additional expertise technical personnel may need to meet MU.
• How quickly systems will need to be modified and deployed to meet MU rules

Registered webinar attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of Shahid Shah’s white paper, “How Meaningful Use Impacts Healthcare Data Management Professionals”.

Register today!
About the Presenter
Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential healthcare IT thought leader who is known as "The Healthcare IT Guy" across the Internet. He is a consultant to various federal agencies on IT matters and winner of Federal Computer Week's coveted "Fed 100" award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 20 year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross's electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he's built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he's designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH's SBIR/STTR program helping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications.

Shahid runs three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org he writes about architecture issues, at http://www.healthcareguy.com he provides valuable insights on how to apply technology in health care, at http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists, and at http://www.hitsphere.com he gives a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.

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Embarcadero Webinar: Fast-Tracking Data Warehousing & BI Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling with Claudia Imhoff

SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 15, 2010 — Join Embarcadero Technologies on Wednesday, January 20 at 11 a.m. PDT for a live one-hour webinar. Business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse expert, Dr. Claudia Imhoff will explore intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior BI faster.

It takes more than desire and pressure to fast-track data warehousing and BI projects. Key stakeholders, architects and database professionals need intelligent data modeling to speed comprehension and collaboration on enterprise data sources, processes and systems.

During this free webinar, Dr. Imhoff will discuss:
• The characteristics and benefits of intelligent data modeling
• How to promote the use of data models to fast-track data warehouse and BI projects
• Three key ways to use data models to streamline collaboration, design and implementation of superior BI solutions
• How to avoid the four biggest traps that hinder BI projects

Registered webinar attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of Dr. Imhoff’s white paper, “Fast-Tracking Data Warehousing & BI Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling.”

To register for this webinar, visit:

http://www.embarcadero.com/fast-tracking-data-warehouse-projects.

About the Speaker:

A thought leader, visionary and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy, Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., is a popular and dynamic speaker and internationally recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence and the infrastructure to support these initiatives – the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly-regarded books on these subjects and writes monthly columns and articles (totaling more than 100) for technical and business magazines. She has served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA organization to receive the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards. She is an advisor and a faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute and serves as an advisor for several technology and commercial companies. Dr. Imhoff founded Intelligent Solutions, Inc. (www.IntelSols.com), a well respected business intelligence and CRM consulting and education firm in 1992. Her company has successfully implemented over 150 CIF architectures in all industry areas.

About Embarcadero Technologies

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

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WEBINAR NEW Innovative, Time-Saving Features for the Busy DBA

Discover all the new time-saving features for busy DBAs in DBArtisan 8.7. Enhanced SQL editing, more object filtering options, faster data source management, Unicode, and more!

The new DBArtisan 8.7 offers many time-saving features for DBAs to use throughout the day to help them be more efficient in common tasks, such as SQL editing and data source management. Other features such as our new object filtering capabilities enable DBAs to better control their user interface and work more efficiently.

Please join this free webinar event with DBArtisan Product Manager, Scott Walz, and get a tour of these new DBArtisan features:

• SQL editor - “on-the-fly” syntax checking of both code and object names, full object look-up throughout the SQL statement, and code complete
• Object Filtering - three new features: simple, name-based filtering lets you hide objects based on naming, complex, user-defined object name filtering, node filtering is defined at the platform level.
• Data source management – now pre-populate the entire contents of the explorer tree with one click. Plus, new import and export features quickly capture registered data source information for backup or migration to other machines.
• Unicode - Full Unicode character support throughout the application, allowing you to work with data in different languages and display the text correctly on screen.
• And More - New enhancements for DB2 for z/OS, user interface and data editor improvements. 

We’ll also demonstrate some of DBArtisan’s more advanced features such as SQL debugging and profiling, performance analysis, capacity diagnostics, and storage planning.

Don’t miss this event!

October 8, 2009

11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT

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The Smart Way To Manage Database Changes

Please join us for a live webinar event, What’s New in Change Manager 5.1, and find out about features like data masking and how to automatically capture schema snapshots to quickly identify changes and correct problems in less time. Learn techniques on how to compare live databases or archives to track and report on change.

 

Change Manager offers:

• Schema “archive” capture, compare and synchronization
• Data compare and synchronization with custom mapping features
• Archive and compare database configuration settings
• Advanced alter script generation; handles object dependencies and preserves data
• Full Unicode Support
• Source Code Control (SCC) Integration
• Command-line API for scheduling jobs and event notification
• Data masking with shuffling and randomization

What’s New in Change Manager 5.1

TECHNICAL WEBINAR

How do you track and report on changes throughout your database environment? Roll out application updates? Comply with database audit and reporting requirements or protect data privacy? Or the real kicker… database performance tanked and it’s because someone tweaked the schema in Production and now YOU have to search through schema archives to find the problem and roll it back… ASAP.

The Smart Way To Manage Database Changes
Please join us for a live webinar event, What’s New in Change Manager 5.1, and find out how to automatically capture schema “snapshots” to quickly identify changes and correct problems in less time; compare live databases or archives to track and report on change; generate change scripts; compare, validate and synchronize schema and data within or across database platforms; and monitor database settings to ensure compliance with regulations and company policies.

And NEW in Change Manager® 5.1, you can:

• Protect Data Privacy - Data masking  features shuffle or randomize columns to de-identify data and then quickly migrate the masked data from Production into Test, QA or Dev environments
• Migrate schemas and manage change across DBMS environments - cross-DBMS schema compare and synch between Oracle <> SQL Server and Sybase ASE <> SQL Server
• Go Global – with full Unicode character support

Embarcadero Change Manager is the only change management tool that covers data, schema, and configuration management, and supports four major DBMS platforms (IBM® DB2® for LUW, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®, and Sybase®) – all from a single interface.

Limited Attendance. Register today!

July 16, 2009

11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT

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Customer Data Integration With Jason Tiret

Why is Customer Data Integration the hottest area of Master Data Management? Because the customer comes in so many forms today – retail stores, online shopping, bonus clubs, coupons... the list goes on.  What good is collecting all of the customer data if we cannot identify who that person really is? How old is the customer?  What trends can we identify by learning about the customer’s habits?   Remember when you used to get cards in the mail that would request info about your lifestyle?

Nowadays, companies automatically pull this information from various sources... at which point, CDI comes in handy!  Tune into this episode of DM Radio to hear special guest host Robert Abate, a seasoned CDI consultant, along with Jason Tiret of Emarcadero, Martin Moseley of Initiate Systems and Aaron Zornes of the MDM Institute. Attendees will learn: Best practices for identity resolution; The value of various architectural approaches; How to incorporate third-party data; Strategies for avoiding re-duplication; What you can accomplish without new software.

Data Masking | Change Manager 5.1

New in Embarcadero Change Manager 5.1: data masking features to help protect data privacy.  Simply run a data compare and synchronization job to shuffle or randomize sensitive data. This will protect the identity of the source when moving data from production into lower security databases like test or development environments:

 

Change Manager is a powerful set of tools to help you simplify and automate the database change management lifecycle.  Change Manager is a product of Embarcadero Technologies, a database tools and developer software company.

• Simplify and automate database change management
• Streamline development cycles
• Ensure availability, performance and compliance

Change Manager's schema compare and alter, data compare and synchronization, and configuration auditing capabilities report on database changes, roll out new releases, and pinpoint database performance problems that result from both planned and unplanned changes.

By comparing a live database to a schema, or configuration "snapshot", administrators can quickly identify changes and correct problems in less time. By monitoring configuration settings, DBAs can ensure compliance with regulatory policies and performance standards, and maintain overall database performance and availability. Change Manager supports IBM® DB2® for LUW, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®, and Sybase®.

Change Manager offers:

• Capture of schema archives, which provide a record of database schema at a point in time
• Live-to-live, live-to-archive, and archive-to-archive compare jobs
• One-to-many compare
• Advanced alter generation
• Manage user, server and system objects
• Cross-DBMS data compare and automated object mapping
• Archive and compare database configuration settings
• Source Code Control Integration
• Command Line API and notification

SQL Profiling and Tuning | Stress Testing with DB Optimizer

A great note from our friend Greg Nerpouni at Embarcadero Technologies:

Two short months after the release of one of Embarcadero’s award winning SQL profiling and tuning IDE database tools, DB Optimizer 1.5, I am proud to announce that DB Optimizer 1.5.1 is out and available to the public. It may strike you that because the version number is only slightly revised that this is simply a maintenance release, but while the development team has done a tremendous job in fixing some key issues they have also managed to include two new and powerful features, including a brand new Load Editor and the ability to launch a tuning job remotely via the command line API.  Here I explain a bit about both of these new features:

I am excited about these new features. With the Load Editor, you can stress test SQL code, getting immediate feedback on performance via continuous profiling while you test and fine tune your SQL leveraging the DB Optimizer SQL Tuner... a unique and powerful feature that should empower developers and DBAs to ensure poor-performing code never reaches production.

Customer Data Integration With Jason Tiret of Embarcadero

Tune into DM Radio Thursday, June 4^th to hear Embarcadero’s Jason Tiret wax on the world of customer data integration.

DM Radio

“Know Your Customer With Modern CDI”

Thursday, June 4, 1009 at 12 pm PT

Knowing your customer can make all the difference in the world. But the number of data sources these days makes the challenge increasingly difficult. From unstructured data in places like Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace and other such sites, to the highly structured world of enterprise data warehousing, the possibilities for knowing a customer are virtually endless... as are the potential pitfalls. Find out what your organization can do about it by tuning into this episode of DM Radio! We'll talk to Aaron Zornes of the MDM Institute, Jason Tiret of Embarcadero, Martin Moseley of Initiate Systems, and a special guest.

http://www.information-management.com/dmradio/-10015502-1.html

Managing Data Strategically

Data yields information when its definition is understood or readily available and it is presented in a meaningful context. Yet even the information that may be gleaned from data is incomplete because data is created to drive applications, not to inform users. Metadata is the data that holds application data definitions as well as their operational and business context, and so plays a critical role in data and application design and development, as well as in providing an intelligent operational environment that's driven by business meaning.

Managing Data Strategically

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Only by presenting data together with its definitions in a meaningful context together with the available online content, and supporting any random combination of queries and actions, can organizations fully harness and
exploit their data assets. These data semantics, effectively applied, enable smarter query and reporting functionality across the entire IT environment, and they enable the delivery of information, derived from structured data, that is meaningful and actionable for the user.

With a unified, global approach to enterprise data, organizations can ensure accuracy, manage regulatory compliance, and ensure that the data infrastructure constantly maps to business needs.