Comments on: The empire has less staff http://jtonedm.com/2008/07/29/the-empire-has-less-staff/ James Taylor on Everything Decision Management Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:03:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Frank http://jtonedm.com/2008/07/29/the-empire-has-less-staff/comment-page-1/#comment-10726 Frank Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:48:07 +0000 http://jtonedm.com/?p=518#comment-10726 Thank you James,   this helps a lot.   Indeed, this was the approach I took at the public health dept. where I was a contractor assigned to design and manage an EDM project.   The system, by itself, does not overcome the "silo" problem completely, but having a single source of millions of dimension integrated, individual records gets about 2,000 online users a day and saves the state over $400,000.00 a year in information access and data management costs.   Local (county) users are able to target specific populations and geographic areas to prevent diseases from asthma to STD's, reduce human suffering and costs to health system. Frank H. Millard Policy Analyst, Data Miner, Population Segmentaion Analyst and Predictive Health Modeler -- Contractor/Consultant 678-570-7510 (M) Thank you James,   this helps a lot.   Indeed, this was the approach I took at the public health dept. where I was a contractor assigned to design and manage an EDM project.   The system, by itself, does not overcome the “silo” problem completely, but having a single source of millions of dimension integrated, individual records gets about 2,000 online users a day and saves the state over $400,000.00 a year in information access and data management costs.   Local (county) users are able to target specific populations and geographic areas to prevent diseases from asthma to STD’s, reduce human suffering and costs to health system.

Frank H. Millard
Policy Analyst, Data Miner, Population Segmentaion Analyst and Predictive Health Modeler — Contractor/Consultant
678-570-7510 (M)

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