We were working with a client around Fraud, Waste and Abuse (FWA) recently and we needed to clean up the client’s Provider data to help us track longitudinal changes in fraud behavior. Some of the published reports suggest that FWA accounts for, minimally, $21B in Medicare payments that never should have been made. That’s a Read more…
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” When the Great Communicator made that proclamation, a wall fell. Within months, the world became a different place. In many organizations, a more resilient wall stands strong. Leveling the divide between business and IT is no mean feat. In fact, technology created and defined that divide. In somewhat of Read more…
Some companies limit data profiling to a tsunami of SQL queries by analysts. This ‘non-scalable’ approach consumes a lot of time and is a tedious and uninspiring activity for a skilled analyst. Most important, this approach does not enable the groupthink of data profiling reviews. For that, we need an accelerator – and a quorum Read more…
Do you wish your organization had more BI power users? BI power users build complex reports, drive statistical models, satisfy ever changing regulatory reporting, and drive sophisticated analysis for your management team. These folks do the heavy data lifting at your organization. They are the data gurus, good ones are hard to find, and they don’t work cheaply. Read more…
The best executed system testing happens prior to the project ‘test phase.’ If you think that’s a catch-22, you’re right. How can system testing happen prior to the completion of development, before the ‘test phase’ even begins? In fact, if you read my last six blogs and followed my lead, you already have the prerequisities Read more…
