Architecture, Data and Intelligence

A long time ago, I did some work for a client that had an out-of-date and inflexible billing system. The software would send invoices and mo...

Clinical trials are supposed to generate reliable data to support healthcare decisions and policies at several levels. Regulators use the da...

This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of data and information that must be addressed in a data strategy - rea...

@ bengoldacre provides some useful commentary on a BBC news item about statins. In particular, he notes a detail from the original research...

The TotalData™ value chain is about the flow from raw data to business decisions (including evidence-based policy decisions). In this post...

One of the key challenges with shared data and shared services is the question of data quality. Who is responsible for mistakes? @ tonyrco...

As @ tonyrcollins reports, a confidential report currently in preparation on the NHS Summary Care Records (SCR) database will reveal seriou...

In Talk to the Hand , Saul Caganoff describes his experiences of error entering his timesheet data into one of those time-recording systems...

My colleague David Sprott has just posted a critique ( Big Brother Database Dinosaur ) of the latest UK Government proposals [Note 1] for ...

In my previous post on Information Sharing , I discussed some of the problems of information sharing in a loosely-coupled world, with specia...

 Inconsistency may prompt a technocratic, moral or commercial response. Suppose a man is found to have inconsistent identity or characterist...