By: David F. Zirkle, PhD | dzirkle@barlowmccarthy.com “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duell, Director of US Patent Office 1899 Population health management is a concept that has been around for quite some time, although...
By: David F. Zirkle, PhD | dzirkle@barlowmccarthy.com “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” – Mark Twain, American author and humorist Medical staff planning has traditionally focused on the number of physicians required to...
By: David F. Zirkle, PhD “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Big data is a broad term for information sets so large or complex that traditional analytical techniques are inadequate. While big data has...
By: David F. Zirkle, PhD “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” –Eleanor Roosevelt Market researchers call it “segmentation” – the process by which customers are divided into groups based on needs,...
By: David F. Zirkle, PhD “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” -John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 According to Intel, the quantity of information generated from the beginning of time until 2003 was approximately 5 exabytes...
By: David F. Zirkle, PhD Have you ever had the experience while reading an article of a single fact jumping off the page? I did the other day while reviewing a Pew Research Center report. The article states that the U.S. Census Bureau now projects the “Millennial”...
