As technology and research continue to inspire great advances in patient care, healthcare organizations are under mounting pressure from multiple fronts—from patient care to profitability and everything in between. Patients are expecting organizations to provide higher levels of service and more personalized health care while stakeholders insist that they be more cost-effective, comply with complex…

Today’s healthcare organizations produce an overwhelming amount of data—from clinical decision support systems (CDSS), electronic medical record systems (EMR/EHR), and patient administration human resources, finance, insurance, government agencies and more. There is no end in sight. In fact, it is expected to continue its exponential rate of growth. The good news is that, buried within…