Nearly three years ago, PwC’s Health Research Institute dubbed 2016 the year of “merger mania” in healthcare. With so many shifts occurring across the industry, many health systems have looked to ...

There are two important, yet different aspects of integrity with respect to databases: database structure integrity and semantic data integrity. Ensuring that each database object is created, ...

One of the prevailing conversations around database systems lately revolves around ACID support. But not everybody knows what is meant by the term ACID. Oh, perhaps they know that it involves how data ...

The pharmaceutical industry’s approach to data integrity has been historically manual, leveraging physical documentation and potentially unreliable paper-based ...

Data governance, data integrity, and data quality are all widely used terms, but what do they actually mean and how are they connected? Nomenclature is important. Data governance, data integrity, and ...

During the 2017 ISA Food and Pharmaceuticals Industries Division Symposium, I attended an informative presentation, Data Integrity: A Partnership of Business Processes and Technology,- by Marcus ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. An organization ...