Not All Data is Created Equal

January 17, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Not All Data is Created Equal

There is a lot of talk about data, the massive volumes of it and the speed at which it is multiplying. In this particular case, healthcare data is under the limelight – mHealth in particular. It is important to remember that data includes metadata ontologies, semantics and metrics, as well as their standards.

This post was inspired by the Forbes article, “Musings from the Mobile Health Summit with Carol McCall.” One of the biggest IT challenges being faced by everyone, healthcare and otherwise, involves the management of large and ever increasing amounts a data. Every aspect of that data should be reviewed for thoroughness and effective use. Sometimes data is assumed to be the same regardless of the source and format, and that false assumption can create storage issues as well as poor findability.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.