Another lies in using, best in class analytical tools that can deal with incompatible data formats and unstructured data.

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And you would want that in the care you receive, you would want that assurance of a standard being achieved and safety in the systems not a hotch- potch of local practice and incompatible and loss of data as you move from one institution to another.

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Earlier standards wars mean Europe has phones that work on a system called GSM, while U.S. phones run on GSM, plus TDMA and CDMA. Before the new standard, wireless data had still other incompatible designs and only 700, 000 users in the U.S. "Diplomacy is harder than technology, " says Rossman.

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To researchers who have devoted their careers to studying pregnancy outcomes, this was a disastrous idea, both because it was a terribly inefficient way to find pregnancies and because it was incompatible with the collection of detailed biomedical data.

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Business reporting applications that pull data from a variety of existing resources into comprehensive reports can be difficult too, especially if utilizing incompatible software and file types.

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