David S. Read

For those of you spending time in Baltimore next week (May 19-21, 2014) to attend the Medicaid Managed Care Congress please stop by Blue Slate’s booth. Our MINI road trip begins Sunday as we head for Camden Yards and the beautiful inner harbor area. Our goal in attending? Having the opportunity to speak with you about your data challenges as well as your Medicaid journey.

We will be demonstrating what we mean by lightweight data federation and agile analytics as the drivers behind creating the Data Unleashed™ service platform. Given our extensive healthcare focus, we have deep experience working with companies on Medicaid initiatives, such as those involving dual eligibles, for instance the FIDA program in New York State.

Beyond data integration and analytics, we provide expertise for plans to: implement business process and business rule management solutions; prepare for site reviews and audits; and unify data from a variety of internal and cloud-based systems. More broadly beyond Medicaid, we work extensively in the Medicare and commercial healthcare space, leading transformative change for businesses such as Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and Blues plans.

We look forward to having a chance to learn more about your operational challenges and share with you our organization’s background and focus areas. Let’s get together and explore opportunities to advance your organization’s strategic goals around  improving quality of care and reducing costs.

I am thrilled to have been invited back to participate at the Semantic Technology and Business (SemTechBiz) conference. This is the premier US conference for learning about, exploring and getting your hands on semantic technology. I’ll be part of a Blue Slate team (including Scott Van Buren and Michael Delaney) who will be conducting a half-day hands-on workshop, Integrating Data Using Semantic Technology, on August 19, 2014. Our mission is to have participants use semantic technology to integrate, federate and perform analysis across several data sources.

We have some work to do to iron out our overall use case, pulling from work we have done with several clients. At a minimum we’ll be working with database schemas, ontologies, reasoners and data analytics tools. It will be a fun and educational experience for attendees.

I’ll post more specifics once the SemTechBiz agenda is published and we have finalized the workshop structure. I hope to see you this August 19-21 in San Jose for our workshop and the amazing learning opportunities throughout the conference.

For more information on the conference, visit its website: http://semtechbizsj2014.semanticweb.com/index.cfm