How Meaningful Use Impacts Healthcare Data Management Professionals

What Healthcare Data Architects, Developers, and DBA’s need to know about achieving HITECH Meaningful Use and Certification The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Stimulus Bill passed in 2009, establishes 25 major “Meaningful Use” (MU) requirements that all electronic medical records systems must implement in order to have their users qualify for billions in government incentive money. These MU requirements will change existing and future implementations, affecting nearly all healthcare architects, developers and DBAs developing these information systems. Join healthcare IT expert, Shahid Shah, for an insightful webinar on the impacts of meaningful use, certification of electronic health record systems, and what this means to data management professionals. Date: Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 Time: 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern In this one hour webinar, you’ll learn: What ARRA, HITECH, Meaningful Use (MU), and Certification mean How technical personnel such as data architects, DBAs and developers will be affected by MU The best ways to determine the MU gaps that might be found in existing systems Additional expertise technical personnel may need to meet MU. How quickly systems will need to be modified and deployed to meet MU rules Registered webinar attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of Shahid Shah’s white paper, “How Meaningful Use Impacts Healthcare Data Management Professionals”. Register today! About the Presenter Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential healthcare IT thought leader who is known as “The Healthcare IT Guy” across the Internet. He is a consultant to various federal agencies on IT matters and winner of Federal Computer Week’s coveted “Fed 100″ award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 20 year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross’s electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he’s built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he’s designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH’s SBIR/STTR program helping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications. Shahid runs three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org he writes about architecture issues, at http://www.healthcareguy.com he provides valuable insights on how to apply technology in health care, at http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists, and at http://www.hitsphere.com he gives a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.

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ER/Studio SIG – June 9, 2010

Please join us June 9th for our upcoming ER/Studio SIG at 11:00 am Pacific with George McGeachie.

Successful Information Management is critical for business success; Business Process Management, Web 2.0 and Service-Oriented Architecture can only succeed where there is a common understanding of the meaning, availability and provenance of data. How can your systems be integrated, if you can’t agree how long your account numbers are, how many lines there are in a customer’s address, or the mandatory data required when creating a customer? Reduce the risk and costs of integrating your business systems, by generating your XML Schemas from a canonical data model.

Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific
REGISTER HERE

Topics will include:

• Why you should use a canonical data model

• Which canonical model should you use

• What if you manage it all in XML

• What if you leverage your enterprise or other common business model

• A practical demonstration using a popular data modelling tool

• What other approaches are available for generating XSDs

About the Speaker: George McGeachie has worked in the field of modelling and metadata since the 1980s, in the UK and recently in Saudi Arabia. George’s first IT role utilized the ICL Data Dictionary System, which generated application systems and databases from a metadata repository. Has the world progressed since those days?

Healthcare IT Survey

Embarcadero is conducting a brief survey (5 minutes) to learn more about your healthcare IT projects and tools that are being used for them. We know your time is valuable. To thank you for your participation, we are offering a chance to win an Amazon.com gift certificate worth $250. And after the survey results are collected, respondents can access the report to see how you compare to your peers. All results and comments will be kept anonymous. Take the survey now at http://bit.ly/cIamgX Thank you, Embarcadero Technologies

 

ER/Studio Special Interest Group (ER-SIG) at Enterprise Data World (EDW)

The annual ER/Studio Special Interest Group (ER-SIG) at Enterprise Data World (EDW) in San Francisco will be on Wednesday, March 17 from 4:30-5:30 pm.

We’d like you to help us with the content for this year’s meeting and as we make plans to re-start the “Online ER-SIG Best Practices” webinar series.

Would you please take a few minutes to complete this survey?

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3B2VJ82

You should attend the ER/Studio Special Interest Group meeting if you want to:

• See demonstrations of key product features
• Learn new techniques you can apply immediately
• Hear how to get more value out of your data modeling activities
• Meet other ER/Studio users
• Overcome your hesitance to try more advanced features
• Discuss upcoming product releases
• Voice your ideas and suggestions on how to improve the product

Jump in on the discussion and exchange your own experiences in an interactive session. You won’t want to miss this fast-paced hour of best practices using ER/Studio!

New point release and updates to ER/Studio Data Architect, Business Architect, Repository and Portal Now Ready for Download

Product Family: ER/Studio

Announcement: New point release and updates to ER/Studio Data Architect, Business Architect, Repository and Portal.

Type: Point releases of ER/Studio Data Architect 8.5.3, ER/Studio Business Architect 1.6.1, ER/Studio Repository 5.5.1, and ER/Studio Portal 1.5.1

What’s New:

• Windows 7 Support – ER/Studio Data Architect and Business Architect now support Windows 7.
• Additional Teradata 12 Support – Teradata 12.0 is now better supported, including the WITH TIMEZONE property for TIME and TIMESTAMP datatypes.
• Windows 2008 Server – ER/Studio Data Architect, Repository and ER/Studio Portal also support Windows 2008 Server.
• Addition Support Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Now includes “rowversion” column datatype and the FILESTREAM storage option for vabinary (BLOB) dataypes.
• Improved Performance – Enhanced performance in the Portal synchronization
• General bug fixes – See the read me links.

Read Me Links:

• ER/Studio Data Architect 8.5.3 and Repository – http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/er_studio/erstudio8.5.3/ReadMe.htm
• ER/Studio Business Architect 1.6.1 – http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/ea_studio/erstudioBA1.6.1/ReadMe.htm
• ER/Studio Portal 1.5.1 – http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/er_studio_portal/erstudioPortal1.5.1/ReadMe.htm

You can now download the latest product version by logging into your Embarcadero Developer Network account and accessing the My Registered User Downloads page.

If you have previously registered an Embarcadero Technologies product using your EDN login and password, you can click on this link to upgrade that product:

http://cc.embarcadero.com/myreg/newb

If you have not registered your product with your EDN login and password, you cannot upgrade using the EDN account.  Your company License Administrator can provide you with the link to download the latest build, along with the required serial number.

If you cannot locate the upgrade version you want to download, please contact our support team for assistance at: http://www.embarcadero.com/support.

For More Information:

Jason Tiret Product Manager +1 415 834 3131 *300 Jason.Tiret@embarcadero.com

Josh Howard Product Marketing Manager +1 303 730 7981 *4 Josh.Howard@embarcadero.com

Webinar: Successful Modeling for Fast-Tracking DW/BI Projects

Successful Modeling for Fast-Tracking DW/BI Projects As an IT professional who may be involved with data warehouse or BI projects, we wanted to notify you of two important events that can help with your DW/BI initiatives. A couple of weeks ago, we hosted part one (I) of our DW/BI series with a webinar and white paper on “Fast-Tracking Data Warehouse Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling”. The presenter/author was renowned DW/BI expert, Claudia Imhoff. Both the webinar replay and white paper are available on demand. In Part two (II) of Embarcadero’s Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence series, we’re offering you a technical deep dive of conceptual, process, and data modeling practices with ER/Studio® — practices that can help you accelerate and maximize the impact of DW/BI projects. This live presentation will be hosted by Jason Tiret, Director of Modeling and Architecture Solutions at Embarcadero.   REGISTER NOW At this event, you’ll see and learn how to: Use conceptual and process models to communicate DW/BI  requirements with business stakeholders Drive logical model creation from a conceptual subject area model Document source/target mappings with Visual Data Lineage Use the data dictionary to share standard data elements, naming standards, and custom metadata properties between source models and dimensional models Leverage the ER/Studio® Portal to publish out models and metadata for the DW/BI environment The Changing Role of Metadata & Modeling The role of metadata and modeling in DW/BI initiatives is evolving. As DW/BI projects mature, leading architects are evolving their data modeling techniques to better develop and maintain these strategic assets. While most organizations rely on data modeling for planning and designing a data warehouse, there is much more to it than capturing data definitions and physical data models for DDL generation. Metadata related to stewardship/accountability, ETL logistics, privacy and information security, source/target mappings system of record, all need to find its way into data models. More importantly, it needs to be instantly communicated and accessible to the appropriate audiences to keep both IT and business stakeholders on the same page. Join us to see how you can leverage the changing role of metadata and modeling with ER/Studio to accelerate your DW/BI initiatives. Don’t miss this live event! Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Time: 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour REGISTER NOW
About the Speaker: Jason Tiret, Director of Modeling and Design Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies Jason has over a decade of experience in data modeling, metadata and database management and currently manages Embarcadero’s entire product line of award-winning modeling solutions. In this role, he has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies, published articles for various industry magazines and has been a frequent speaker on the topics of data architecture, metadata and data governance.
There are many ways to connect to the Embarcadero Community! Stay in touch and keep your profile current at the Embarcadero Developer Network Follow us on Twitter! Watch us on our YouTube Channel

More than Performance: The Strategic Role of Data Modeling

Don’t Miss Jason Tiret live on DM Radio Thursday, January 7 discussing data modeling.

Register online at http://bit.ly/4vqfnE 

More than Performance: The Strategic Role of Data Modeling

Date: January 7, 2010

Effective data modeling can help enterprise applications run very efficiently, both for operations and analytics. But the value of data modeling goes even deeper. By getting a handle on a logical model, companies can find efficiencies in the business itself, which can yield strategic value to the enterprise. Register for the first episode of DM Radio in 2010 to learn how data modeling can help your organization get off to a good start in the new decade. We’ll hear from Donna Burbank of CA ERwin, David Dichmann of Sybase, Bert Scalzo of Quest and Jason Tiret of Embarcadero. Attendees will learn: How data modeling can improve business processes; The difference between evolutionary and revolutionary approaches; The value of maintaining a comprehensive Information Architecture; How to avoid “media gaps” in your decision support systems.

Discounted Modeling Courses from DebTech International

DebTech International, a training and development company specializing in corporate onsite and public IT and data management education has three new public data modeling seminars coming up in February. All DAMA, MPO, IDMA and Embarcadero users are eligible for a special discount.

 

Seminars

Data Modeling for MDM
Malcolm Chisholm
February 1, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Clark, NJ

Data Modeling and Data Management in a SOA Environment
Tom Haughey
February 8, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Clark, NJ

Advanced Data Modeling
Alec Sharp
February 24-26, 2010
Marriott Courtyard, Orlando, FL

 

Visit DebTech International online at http://www.debtechint.com/ for registration or additional information.

ER/Studio Public Training Course

On the heels of the latest news from Embarcadero where we announced that we expanded our  flagship data modeling tool to include new UML modeling capabilities and enhanced reporting, ER/Studio partners, eModelers, have made an announcement of their own that they will be conducting a public training course on ER/Studio. The 3 day training course is open to the public and will be held at the Embarcadero office in downtown San Francisco on November 16-18, 2009. All attendees participating will be awarded with a free one hour consulting session with eModelers. You can read more online at ER/Studio Public Training or below. For registration, please contact Becky Baird at (209) 609-7195 bbaird@emodelers.com

Public Training – ER/Studio Data Architect and ER/Studio Repository

Date / Time:	November 16-18, 2009 (3 days) 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location:	Embarcadero Technologies 100 California Street, 12th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111
Instructors:	Dr. Nicholas Khabbaz, Senior Enterprise Architect and Instructor Dan Weller, CDMP, Senior Data Modeler and Instructor
Audience:	The class is targeted at a variety of audiences, including data modelers, business analysts, data architects, DBAs, data analysts, project managers, software architects, and software developers.
Topics:	Conceptual Modeling Logical Modeling Using ER/Studio Physical Modeling Using ER/Studio DDL Generation ER/Studio Repository Environment Introduction to ER/Studio Macros
Approach:	Provide a beginning to end data modeling process Incorporate data modeling and ER/Studio best practices Follow a consistent pattern throughout the material Describe a data modeling or ER/Studio concept Apply the concept to a case study (global equity trading system) Use ER/Studio hands-on practice to implement the case study
Benefits:	Stakeholder alignment around one solid data modeling process Alignment of data modeling concepts with ER/Studio features and functions Development of highest quality ER/Studio data models Effective stakeholder collaboration using ER/Studio Repository Effective use of ER/Studio within the larger enterprise architecture and SDLC contexts
Cost:	$1,995 per attendee; pre-payment required
Contacts:	For registration, please contact Becky Baird at (209) 609-7195 or bbaird@emodelers.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it // <![CDATA[ document.write( '' ); // ]]> For class inquiries, please contact Dan Weller at dweller@emodelers.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it // <![CDATA[ document.write( '' ); // ]]> For any other information, please contact Dr. Nicholas Khabbaz at nkhabbaz@emodelers.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it // <![CDATA[ document.write( '' ); // ]]>
Company:	e-Modelers, Inc. is an IT professional services company providing consulting and training in enterprise architecture, modeling and design. e-Modelers has been a partner of Embarcadero Technologies since 2000.

Post Training – Free one-on-one ER/Studio Consulting

Date / Time:	November 19, 2009 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. One hour slots (9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; etc.) will be made available for class attendees To book a time, please contact Dr. Nicholas Khabbaz at nkhabbaz@emodelers after registering for the class
Location:	Embarcadero Technologies 100 California Street, 12th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111
Consultant:	Dr. Nicholas Khabbaz, Senior Enterprise Architect
Purpose:	The purpose of the one-on-one consulting is to provide a class attendee with the opportunity to discuss with the consultant his or her specific ER/Studio related projects, plans, problems and challenges in their organization. The consultant will discuss, among other things, approaches, frameworks and ideas for solutions that have worked in the past.
Topics:	Enterprise data model development using ER/Studio Data Architect Data and business process alignment: effective use of the ER/Studio Data Architect and Business Architect Migration planning from ERwin or other data modeling tools to ER/Studio Developing a data modeling standards document Improving data quality with ER/Studio Data Architect Using ER/Studio Data Architect for dimensional modeling in a data warehouse environment Aligning the ER/Studio products with an organization’s enterprise architecture framework Using the ER/Studio products to support a service oriented architecture Other related topics, of interest to class attendees

Embarcadero Expands Flexibility for Data Modelers with ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5

Embarcadero Expands Flexibility for Data Modelers with ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5 – This Latest Release Adds UML and Enhanced Collaboration and Reporting Capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, today announced the general availability of ER/Studio® Enterprise 8.5. This newest version of Embarcadero’s leading data modeling tool combines process modeling, data modeling, application modeling and reporting into a comprehensive design and modeling solution.

The new enhancements now available in ER/Studio 8.5 help data architects streamline the model review process between developers and business users and automate the communication of data lineage between systems. The newest version also enables data architects to centralize process and data models, and document software architecture. The culmination of these advancements enable information and data architects to easily understand, design and communicate software, data and enterprise architecture across the organization for improved traceability, collaboration and data reuse.

“Reliability, performance and innovation matter with data modelers, and that’s why every day we see ERwin® users switching to ER/Studio,” said Michael Swindell, senior vice president of marketing and products, Embarcadero Technologies. “Architects need tools that are trusted to deliver results when time is at stake. Data management teams simply can’t afford downtime or loss of productivity using inferior and unreliable tools. ER/Studio 8.5 delivers new features and technologies that expand its enterprise architecture and UML capabilities, automate model reviews and data modeler feedback, and improve team and enterprise collaboration and communication.”

Additional features now available in ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5 include:

* Integration of ER/Studio® Business Architect with the ER/Studio® Repository and ER/Studio® Portal to understand and design process, conceptual, physical and logical models in a collaborative, integrated and secure environment
* New workflow communication facilities with Web 2.0 technologies like bi-directional commenting between ER/Studio® Data Architect and ER/Studio Portal to assist and streamline communication and model review with non-modelers
* Object labeling within the ER/Studio Portal to categorize and tag related content
* New UML modeling features for business and software modeling
* Update DBMS features for the latest editions of Oracle®, SQL® Server, DB2® LUW, InterBase® and Teradata
* Powerful and sophisticated reporting options enable users to create and share models and metadata in HTML, RTF, GIF, PNG and JPEG formats

ER/Studio remains the fastest growing database design and modeling tool on the market by expanding organically and attracting new customers from users of competing tools, such as CA ERwin, who are looking for modeling and design tools to resolve their complex data management challenges.

Embarcadero’s ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5 Modeling Suite

Embarcadero’s suite of modeling tools provides a complete environment for analyzing, designing, creating and maintaining business process models, conceptual models, logical models and physical models to meet the rigorous demands of data architects, developers and DBAs.

Embarcadero’s powerful modeling suite includes tools for data modeling and database design (ER/Studio), a server-side model repository for collaborative modeling and security, (ER/Studio Repository), a metadata search and reporting (ER/Studio Portal), business process modeling and conceptual modeling (ER/Studio Business Architect), and a brand new tool for  UML modeling (ER/Studio Software Architect).

Availability and Pricing

ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5 is available immediately and includes ER/Studio Data Architect, ER/Studio Business Architect, ER/Studio® Software Architect, ER/Studio Repository and ER/Studio Portal supporting both single-platform and multi-platform packages. Pricing in North America begins at $1,900 USD for single-platform and $5,100 USD for multi-platform. For more information, visit www.embarcadero.com/product/er-studio.

About Embarcadero Technologies

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

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