The benefits of data standardization within the social sector—and indeed just about any industry—are multiple, important, and undeniable. Access to the same type of data over time lends the ability to ...

Data is the lifeblood of the modern economy. Thousands of data points generated by each person are helping many industries deliver better products and services—online retailers suggesting and shipping ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has standardized the vast majority of the high-priority datasets it’s transferring to two platforms that form the backbone if its Electronic Health Record ...

Standardizing patients’ last names and address information in EHRs can lead to more effective matching of an individual’s health records, according to a paper published in the Journal of the American ...

For scientific investigation, observational and instrument-derived data is the lineage of information which provides knowledge that enables managers to make strategic and tactical data-based decisions ...

The open data movement has grown in leaps and bounds during the Obama administration, but efforts to standardize that data are only in their infancy, experts say. Waldo Jaquith, former director of the ...

On Thursday, Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., jointly introduced the AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act, a new bill that aims to set standards for biological data so that it can be ...

When I took my first computer science courses in college, my professor often cited the old adage “Garbage in, Garbage out”. Most of the students in the classroom chuckled. For most of us, that was the ...

Many, if not all, highly regulated sectors comply with reference standards that are cited by legislators but developed, updated, and peer reviewed by teams of industry experts. This means that these ...

Getting a number of vendors to talk to each other, let alone align, is no easy feat. Adding academics and researchers does not necessarily make things easier. Now try adding to the mix a fragmented ...