IT Predictions for 2013

Before we continue with our discussion regarding how to develop Conceptual Models, we're going to pause for a moment and look at the year ahead. In many ways, Enterprise IT seems to move a bit slower than the overall tech sector - that's often because the nature or mission of Enterprise Information Technology is the application of new technology rather than its invention (in most cases). Even still, the last two years have seen some fairly...

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When to Create Conceptual Data Models

Why are Conceptual Data Models Important? Not everyone does them - especially in situations where many aspects of the data architecture has already been defined by default because commercial software is involved. Also, those folks who do use them don't always build the same way. Yet - perhaps there is more to the Conceptual Data Model (CDM) than many people realize. Moreover - how does the CDM fit into the larger realm of architecture or...

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Coming up on Technovation Talks...

This is preview of the posts and presentations you'll be seeing on the Technovation Talks Blog over the next month: An Introduction to IT Architecture How to create Conceptual Data Models Using Joomla as an Enterprise CMS solution The Top 10 IT breakthroughs of 2012 Evaluating the Adobe Creative Cloud and MS Office 365  Top 5 challenges in Project Architecture IT Predictions for 2013 Principles of Natural Intelligence 5 Ways...

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Agile Data Architecture

Traditional data architectures are not by nature Agile. It may be time for us to reconsider some of our previous assumptions regarding data integration. For decades, we've presumed that the best method for managing data was through strict conformance and control – we viewed the enterprise as static, remaining stable once properly defined. What we've discovered is that quite the opposite is true. Today we are facing more complexity...

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The Healthcare Portfolio

Today's post is a continuation of the discussion from yesterday's post: Medical Charts & the EHR  “Nearly all existing EHR systems are built with an explicit domain model– a common approach in current EHR software development practice. This means that the hard coded medical domain knowledge in the system results in higher cost when new requirements in clinical documentation routines occur.” Weber-Jahnke, J. & Price, M. (2007).    One...

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Medical Charts & the EHR

Today's post is a continuation of the Intelligent Healthcare theme. We're going to talk about the current relationship between Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) and the practice of using medical charts. Intelligent Healthcare Scenarios Intelligent Healthcare Capabilities What is Intelligent Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare: EHR Assumptions Intelligent Healthcare and Integration Federal Healthcare IT Initiatives The Intelligent Healthcare Manifesto Understanding...

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The Semantic COP Motivation

The number one challenge associated with the entire domain of Information Technology is data overload. This problem is not merely a matter of increasing complexity, because even as other areas within IT are becoming more integrated or manageable, the ability to effectively exploit the increasing quantity of available data is decreasing. There are a number of reasons why this is the case; those reasons include: ·       Traditional...

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The Semantic Common Operating Picture

One of the most important achievements in analytics during the 2000's was the development of what can be described as Common Operating Picture architectures or COPS. These solutions combine data fusion technology along with advanced reporting functionality and role-based dashboards to provide an integrated view of various types of data. COPs are often used in the DoD or Homeland Security to support threat analysis or other Cyber Security missions....

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Intelligent Healthcare Scenarios

In yesterday's post, we introduced a number of core capabilities that would facilitate deployment of enterprise-wide Intelligent Healthcare solutions. In today's post, we're looking at the core problems and specific scenarios under which those capabilities might be applied. Inter-operability is over-arching problem set behind most Healthcare related innovation There are a number of what might be considered ‘problems’ associated with...

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Intelligent Healthcare Capabilities

We introduced the concept of Intelligent Healthcare across several posts so far: What is Intelligent Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare: EHR Assumptions Intelligent Healthcare and Integration Federal Healthcare IT Initiatives The Intelligent Healthcare Manifesto Understanding Healthcare Inter-operability Over the next several months we're going to cover a number of related IH topics and we thought it would be worthwhile to capture some of what...

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Exploring Governance Process - part 2

Part two of the Exploring Governance post focuses on prototypical process steps. As noted in the previous post, this example relates to an enterprise-wide SOA governance initiative. Governance process can be applied to any number of areas or can be made available universally to all IT functions (e.g. Data, SOA, Security, SDLC/ALM). Each organization needs to determine for itself how lean or robust the process (and its steps) should be - those decisions...

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