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Melissa Informatics Combines AI and Traditional Data Quality to Increase Insight into Electronic Medical Records

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Clinical Research Customer Case Study Featured at Bio-IT World Demo

Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – April 2, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, will offer a real-world look at how to clean, harmonize, and connect disparate content sources for clinical discovery at the upcoming Bio-IT World Conference. Melissa will share a clinical research customer case study to illustrate how traditional data quality methods effectively blend with ontology-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) for machine reasoning. Together these technologies improve data normalization and integration, powering new levels of insight into electronic medical records (EMR).

The case study features the Melissa Informatics Sentient™ (MIS) platform, an array of data quality solutions, datasets, and knowledge engineering resources applied to help the Parkinsons Institute and Clinical Center (PICC) extract, curate, normalize, integrate, and realize useful outcomes from EMR data.

“By blending AI and sophisticated data quality, PICC transformed data such as unstructured text, XML, tables, tsv and other data formats into a research quality, well-managed data resource,” said Bob Stanley, senior director, customer projects, Melissa Informatics. “The resulting clean, well-integrated data supports both clinical and business goals, including researching and publishing data discoveries, and driving revenue-generating, pharmaceutical research partnerships.”

For case study details, visit Melissa Informatics at booth 523 at the Bio-IT World Conference, April 16-18, 2019, at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston; click here if you prefer to set a briefing appointment. To connect with Melissa Informatics or members of Melissa’s global intelligence team outside of this event, visit www.Melissa.com or call 1-800-MELISSA.

About Melissa

Since 1985, Melissa has specialized in global intelligence solutions to help organizations unlock accurate data for a more compelling customer view. More than 10,000 clients worldwide in arenas such as retail, education, healthcare, insurance, finance, and government, rely on Melissa for full spectrum data quality and ID verification software, including data matching, validation, and enhancement services to gain critical insight and drive meaningful customer relationships. For more information or free product trials, visit www.Melissa.com or call 1-800-MELISSA (635-4772).

About Melissa Informatics

Melissa Informatics extends the capabilities of Melissa’s global intelligence software and services to support world leaders in life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical industries by harnessing the entire data lifecycle for business, pharmaceutical and clinical data. Our software and services bring data quality and machine reasoning together for insight and discovery by intelligently cleaning, connecting, and harmonizing multiple sources to offer interoperable data. Melissa Informatics reduces time and cost to benefit from clean, richly connected data. Revealing deeper data relationships from complex, dynamic data through machine reasoning operations, Melissa Informatics ensures the most reliable information in mission critical financial services, healthcare, and life science informatics. For more information or free product trials, visit www.Melissa.com/informatics or call 1-800-MELISSA (635-4772).

Melissa Offers Insight on How a Healthy Data Lifecycle Supports Smart Business Decisions

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New Resource Touts the Importance of Full Spectrum Protection to Combat Data Pitfalls

Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – March 6, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced availability of the 2019 Melissa Solutions Catalog, a new resource that shares a wealth of information on the importance of good data, including how to address the full spectrum of data quality from point-of-entry ID verification to deduping, and cautions against the pitfalls of bad data and its negative impact to any business.

Bad data costs U.S. businesses an estimated $3.1 trillion each year, according to the Harvard Business Review and IBM. Wasted time and resources, undetected fraud, and decreased brand value are just a few results of poor data quality. Taking a proactive approach to maintaining clean data starts with a healthy data lifecycle. Melissa offers full spectrum data protection for accurate, reliable data that can be trusted to drive insight and transform business operations:

Verification tools leverage powerful global address, name, phone, and email validation routines, and match name-to-address to verify ID.
Cleansing capabilities use a variety of programmatic or regular expressions to correct data inconsistencies quickly and easily.
Updating resources access up to 20 years of change-of-address records to get the most current address of customers, domestically and internationally.
Deduping tools match and merge similar records and eliminate duplicates with advanced fuzzy matching algorithms and survivorship rules for a clearer, more accurate 360-view of customers.
Enrichment solutions add valuable demographics, business firmographics, location data (geographics + IP location) and property data for greater insights and better targeted marketing.

“Data is not only a company’s most valuable asset, it should play a key role in all business decisions. But if the quality of your data is not optimum, you’re at a serious disadvantage,” said Greg Brown, vice president, marketing, Melissa. “The 2019 Melissa Solutions Catalog takes a comprehensive look at today’s data quality challenges and offers proven options for solving them. Our wide range of tools is designed to improve data health so you can make better business decisions and leapfrog the competition.”

Click here to access the 2019 Melissa Solutions Catalog or learn more about full spectrum data protection. To connect with members of Melissa’s global intelligence team for support and solutions, visit www.melissa.com or call 1-800-MELISSA.

Melissa Unlocks Insight and Revenue with Breakthrough AI Tools for Clinics and Research Centers

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Cutting Edge Data Quality Transforms Real-World Clinical Data into a Future-Proofed, Research-Ready Data Goldmine for Better Patient Care

Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that combine machine reasoning, natural language processing, and machine learning to tackle one of healthcare’s biggest problems: the time and cost of data harmonization and integration.

Hospitals, clinical care, and clinical research organizations are sitting on a veritable data goldmine, based on data gathered for years from electronic medical records (EMR), electronic health records (EHR), and laboratory information management systems (LIMS). While this real-world clinical data is unusually valuable, it is also unusually complex and diverse. Melissa Informatics’ Sentient (MIS) solution is a new and unique set of clinical data quality and integration tools that quickly and easily turn diverse, dirty, and disconnected data into a clean, research-ready data resource. Melissa Informatics has laid out the company’s easy-to-follow steps to turn clinical data into a future-proofed, AI-enabled “knowledgebase” in its newest paper, “The Six-Step Guide to Turn Clinical Data into Gold,” downloadable here.

“Too often, clinical data is expensively gathered and under-valued,” said Bob Stanley, senior director, customer projects, Melissa Informatics. “When you apply machine learning and machine reasoning to access, curate, and integrate this data, it becomes ready for rewarding new uses in patient care, precision medicine research, intellectual property, and unexpected new revenue.”

Melissa Informatics further demonstrates the value of AI-enabled data quality by providing real-world use cases from world-renowned clinics including Parkinson’s Institute and Clinical Center (PICC) and PROOF Centre.

Using Melissa Informatics MIS technology, PICC transformed data such as unstructured text, XML, tables, tsv, image content and other data formats into a research quality, well-managed data resource. This helped the organization meet its technical goals including creating a new, unified “Parkinson’s Insight” data resource – as well as its business goals, including researching and publishing discoveries from that data, and engaging in revenue-generating partnerships based on the new data resource. Access the full case study here.

PROOF Centre used MIS tools to better understand and model connections between desired data sources, working under PIPEDA, HIPAA, Safe Harbor and EMEA requirements for handling of confidential patient data. MIS enabled a global platform for integrated search and reporting, analytics, and knowledge creation and sharing. This project integrated diseases, treatments, outcomes, tissue bank information, laboratory data, molecular data from blood (gene expression, proteins, metabolites), and published data. Access the full case study here.