Unstructured data is information that’s difficult for software systems to store, search, or analyze. It’s the kind of data you won’t find in a fixed, predefined format. It won’t fit neatly into a spreadsheet’s rows and columns. It might be a handwritten note in the margins of a form, an email chain, or even […]
A few weeks ago, our team was on-site at a diagnostic laboratory in California to audit their specimen accessioning process. Their technicians were using shared Excel spreadsheets to track incoming test orders. One of our team members asked, “What if someone is typing on this row and they haven’t hit save yet, and someone else […]
Pharma is engineering drug delivery with nanoparticles. Biotech is growing mini “organoids” to test new kinds of treatments. Precision medicine is mapping multi-omics for hyper-personalized care. All of it’s new, exciting, and transformative… except for the part where it all still starts with someone filling out a paper form. The reality is that, for most […]