scholarly journals Disparate Systems, Disparate Data: Integration, Interfaces, and Standards in Emergency Medicine Information Technology

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1142-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. N. Barthell
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Medicine Information ◽  
Disparate Data

The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Kintigh
Keyword(s):  
Data Integration ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Information Infrastructure ◽  
Structured Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
National Science ◽  
Disparate Data ◽  
Legacy Data

This forum reports the results of a National Science Foundation—funded workshop that focused on the integration and preservation of digital databases and other structured data derived from archaeological contexts. The workshop concluded that for archaeology to achieve its potential to advance long-term, scientific understandings of human history, there is a pressing need for an archaeological information infrastructure that will allow us to archive, access, integrate, and mine disparate data sets. This report provides an assessment of the informatics needs of archaeology, articulates an ambitious vision for a distributed disciplinary information infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure), discusses the challenges posed by its development, and outlines initial steps toward its realization. Finally, it argues that such a cyberinfrastructure has enormous potential to contribute to anthropology and science more generally. Concept-oriented archaeological data integration will enable the use of existing data to answer compelling new questions and permit syntheses of archaeological data that rely not on other investigators' conclusions but on analyses of meaningfully integrated new and legacy data sets.

Using health information technology to manage a patient population in accountable care organizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances M Wu ◽  
Thomas G. Rundall ◽  
Stephen M. Shortell ◽  
Joan R Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Health Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Patient Population ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Accountable Care Organizations ◽  
Accountable Care ◽  
Electronic Health Record Data ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the current landscape of health information technology (HIT) in early accountable care organizations (ACOs), the different strategies ACOs are using to develop HIT-based capabilities, and how ACOs are using these capabilities within their care management processes to advance health outcomes for their patient population. Design/methodology/approach – Mixed methods study pairing data from a cross-sectional National Survey of ACOs with in-depth, semi-structured interviews with leaders from 11 ACOs (both completed in 2013). Findings – Early ACOs vary widely in their electronic health record, data integration, and analytic capabilities. The most common HIT capability was drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks, with 53.2 percent of respondents reporting that the ACO possessed the capability to a high degree. Outpatient and inpatient data integration was the least common HIT capability (8.1 percent). In the interviews, ACO leaders commented on different HIT development strategies to gain a more comprehensive picture of patient needs and service utilization. ACOs realize the necessity for robust data analytics, and are exploring a variety of approaches to achieve it. Research limitations/implications – Data are self-reported. The qualitative portion was based on interviews with 11 ACOs, limiting generalizability to the universe of ACOs but allowing for a range of responses. Practical implications – ACOs are challenged with the development of sophisticated HIT infrastructure. They may benefit from targeted assistance and incentives to implement health information exchanges with other providers to promote more coordinated care management for their patient population. Originality/value – Using new empirical data, this study increases understanding of the extent of ACOs’ current and developing HIT capabilities to support ongoing care management.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Digital Literacy Skills among Thai University Seniors

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piatip Phuapan ◽  
Chantana Viriyavejakul ◽  
Paitoon Pimdee
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Medicine Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
University Seniors ◽  
Sampling Survey

Digital literacy and the associated skills are becoming the basic and essential skill set of any employer that wishes to survive in a highly competitive world. Given the global importance of these skills for many sectors including education, medicine, information technology, tourism, etc., the researchers sought to determine which digital literacy skills were most important in using digital technology, communications tools, and/or networks to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information in order to function in a knowledge society. From a multistage random sampling survey of 400 second semester university seniors finishing their degrees in 2014 at 9 Thai public and private universities, it was determined that the ability to evaluate was the most important skill indicator in the development of digital literacy. Analysis was conducted by use of LISREL 8.72.

scholarly journals THE SEER AND THE SEEN: A SURVEY OF TOPICS FOUND IN PALANTIR PATENTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew James Iliadis ◽  
Amelia Acker
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Technology Firms ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legacy Data

Palantir is one of the most secretive technology firms in the US. The company supplies information technology (IT) solutions to governments, nonprofits, and corporations, focusing on data integration and surveillance services. To investigate Palantir’s opaque technology practices, this article presents findings from a topic modeling of Palantir patents (n=155) filed from 2006-2019 in the US, Germany, Australia, UK, and EU. This approach follows recent literature that uses patents as data for researching opaque IT firms. We begin by summarizing scholarship on Palantir and IT for policing, intelligence, and security. Our findings show that Palantir’s IT produces infrastructural layers of meaning/context via metadata that are wrapped ‘on top’ of previously held legacy data. We thus use the concept of infrastructuring to understand Palantir’s practices, where information standards like metadata are theorized as phenomena for structuring social worlds. The paper ends by offering action items for future research into opaque IT firms.

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