The process of developing an IDEA (Integrated Data Engineering Application) sounds like such a consummately technical task doesn’t it? Sounds like you might need some client side boffo cranking out an ungodly detailed MS project file that would then mesh with a WorldAPP Statement Of Work eight tomes thick.
Well, yes and no.
I just looked at a video that a colleague of mine, Matt Haney, jabbered over. It’s fascinating stuff. First, it’s on a larger theme that has always entranced me – the subject of how to correctly motivate a workforce.
But there’s more in this pudding than just these raisins.
It also reveals how incentives can become disincentives when the work task shifts from straightforward or mechanical tasks to those that require expansive lateral thinking. (Hat tip here to one of my all times heroes, Edward de Bono, the “father of thinking”.)
In the video, the presenter, Dan Pink, shows how it has been repeatedly proven that the bigger the pecuniary incentive for cognitively challenging tasks, the higher the fail rate. Hmmm…. I hope our CFO, Oleg Matsko, isn’t reading this. This means we should be cranking out IDEAS for our customers with a bunch of lateral thinking mavens from the client’s team matched with a bunch of rag-tag rightbrained geniuses on our side .…AND…if we want it to really work well…the success of the project should largely be uncoupled from its cost.
You can view this interesting lecture at http://bit.ly/F0gJu
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Personal Health Records (PHR) may drive data initiatives in healthcare
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
I just read an interesting article by Pat Speer in Information Management Magazine. The author points out that data integration initiatives around health care are hot topics today.
Certainly it is needed.
According to EMC, fewer than 10 percent of America's 5,000 hospitals and 17 percent of its 800,000 doctors have digitized their patients' records. The smaller the practice, the less likely an investment has been made in EHR (Electronic Health Records) technology.
I find this astounding. How will this transformation in healthcare take place? I believe the consumer (aka the “informed patient”) will be the spark plug that gets this behemoth moving forward. Health insurers, progressive HMOs and technology savvy medical practices will begin to recognize the convergence of easily accessible EHR and PHR (Personal Health Records) as their most valuable opportunity to become a trusted source to their members.
Speer points out that Aetna for example, with over 12 million members, is a poster child for this progressive movement. Aetna's health information management systems and electronic medical records are now fully integrated.
They started this initiative five years ago, according to their head of e-health product management Dan Greden. "At that time” Greden says, “we had 1 million members who had a PHR [personal health record] available to them. With the most rapid increase seen in the last 15 months, today we have close to 9 million members taking advantage of this program."
This is heady stuff. It’s an omen of a huge tectonic shift that’s about to happen around data integration within the healthcare industry. A space I fully expect WorldAPP to play a major role in.
Meanwhile I only have to walk into my local GP and be handed a sheaf of redundant forms to fill out and immediately I can see a whole bunch of IDEAS (Integrated Data Engineering Applications) that would make this fragmented health care process run better.
Can't wait!
http://www.information-management.com/issues/2007_59/health_care_third_party_data_management_warehousing-10015489-1.html
Certainly it is needed.
According to EMC, fewer than 10 percent of America's 5,000 hospitals and 17 percent of its 800,000 doctors have digitized their patients' records. The smaller the practice, the less likely an investment has been made in EHR (Electronic Health Records) technology.
I find this astounding. How will this transformation in healthcare take place? I believe the consumer (aka the “informed patient”) will be the spark plug that gets this behemoth moving forward. Health insurers, progressive HMOs and technology savvy medical practices will begin to recognize the convergence of easily accessible EHR and PHR (Personal Health Records) as their most valuable opportunity to become a trusted source to their members.
Speer points out that Aetna for example, with over 12 million members, is a poster child for this progressive movement. Aetna's health information management systems and electronic medical records are now fully integrated.
They started this initiative five years ago, according to their head of e-health product management Dan Greden. "At that time” Greden says, “we had 1 million members who had a PHR [personal health record] available to them. With the most rapid increase seen in the last 15 months, today we have close to 9 million members taking advantage of this program."
This is heady stuff. It’s an omen of a huge tectonic shift that’s about to happen around data integration within the healthcare industry. A space I fully expect WorldAPP to play a major role in.
Meanwhile I only have to walk into my local GP and be handed a sheaf of redundant forms to fill out and immediately I can see a whole bunch of IDEAS (Integrated Data Engineering Applications) that would make this fragmented health care process run better.
Can't wait!
http://www.information-management.com/issues/2007_59/health_care_third_party_data_management_warehousing-10015489-1.html
What is a WorldAPP IDEA?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
An IDEA is term we have created at WorldAPP to describe an Integrated Data Engineering Application.
Specifically, WorldAPP defines an IDEA as the development and deployment of any unique sequence of data events to solve a particular business process problem.
Though WorldAPP coined the IDEA acronym, the real demand for IDEAS has come from our customers and prospects. It is an organic real business need that WorldAPP is being asked to solve.
A little history.
WorldAPP began in business almost a decade ago by selling online survey and forms applications. It has been an excellent business and WorldAPP continues to grow rapidly in the marketplace. We have earned a position on Inc Magazine's Top 100 Fastest Growing Software Companies list for the last two years running.
On the path however, WorldAPP has discovered a need for more complex solutions than a standalone survey or forms tool. Moving to web-based data collection has become a pressing initiative for millions of companies today. And WorldAPP is continually being asked to modify, augment and integrate our data collection technology to work with existing applications and databases.
Thus we have come up with the easy-to-remember acronym "IDEA" to represent this concept of an Integrated Data Engineering Application - a custom designed data collection and data engineering solution shaped around the unique ways an organization currently does business.
The key here is that companies don’t have to adapt to IDEAs …instead IDEAs adapt to you.
Specifically, WorldAPP defines an IDEA as the development and deployment of any unique sequence of data events to solve a particular business process problem.
Though WorldAPP coined the IDEA acronym, the real demand for IDEAS has come from our customers and prospects. It is an organic real business need that WorldAPP is being asked to solve.
A little history.
WorldAPP began in business almost a decade ago by selling online survey and forms applications. It has been an excellent business and WorldAPP continues to grow rapidly in the marketplace. We have earned a position on Inc Magazine's Top 100 Fastest Growing Software Companies list for the last two years running.
On the path however, WorldAPP has discovered a need for more complex solutions than a standalone survey or forms tool. Moving to web-based data collection has become a pressing initiative for millions of companies today. And WorldAPP is continually being asked to modify, augment and integrate our data collection technology to work with existing applications and databases.
Thus we have come up with the easy-to-remember acronym "IDEA" to represent this concept of an Integrated Data Engineering Application - a custom designed data collection and data engineering solution shaped around the unique ways an organization currently does business.
The key here is that companies don’t have to adapt to IDEAs …instead IDEAs adapt to you.
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