tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post6406382076482437809..comments2024-03-27T09:55:23.143-07:00Comments on Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier: Sending the Questions to the DataJohn Halamkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550236129132159307noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-61126225326058050902011-12-19T14:09:31.367-08:002011-12-19T14:09:31.367-08:00In thinking about the Query Health Initiative. I c...In thinking about the Query Health Initiative. I can see why; utilizing solutions based on traditional technologies, it would make sense to standardize the types of queries sent to a federated system of medical data repositories, but have to question the usefulness of such a solution. <br /><br />Maybe I'm misunderstanding the big picture, but my thought is that they're thinking that by limiting or restricting the types of queries being run, they'll be able to more effectively handle the solution from a computational perspective, and actually have queries returned in a reasonable time frame, as opposed to waiting hours and in some cases days for results to come back.<br /><br />The problem with that aspect of what's being proposed is that it leads one to question the ultimate utility of such a solution. The ultimate solution needs to be flexible enough to be useful to a broad group of users and organizations without sacrificing performance, and adding expensive hardware. <br /><br />Webmedx Quality Analytics (now Nuance) is a good example of the type of solution you're talking about here, BayScribe's Semantic Search is another. They have the ability to search against many multiple data repositories, work with both structured and unstructured documents, provide sub second query times across the board (even as data sets scale to over a billion records), and operate on only a fraction of the hardware that other like solutions require. <br /><br />I realize that the standardization of queries is likely just one aspect to the Query Health Initiative, but as a user, I'm looking for a solution that doesn't limit me in terms of the data I need to access.Kimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05494804988775832556noreply@blogger.com