Reporting In The News
A collection of articles concerning a variety of industries around the world:
- Bank of Israel tightens mortgage reporting. "The Bank of Israel is expanding its reporting requirements on mortgages, and for the first time it is demanding that the banks make detailed monthly reports...The Bank of Israel brought forward the date and increased the frequency of the reporting." -- Globes, Israel, 14 April 2011 |
- Amendment to education bill would add reporting requirement. "School districts would be required to report and publish several pieces of financial and administrative figures including total compensation of employees and copies of agreements with labor unions if an amendment to an education bill is passed..." -- Montana Watchdog, United States, 13 April 2011 |
- Senate repeals widely unpopular business tax reporting requirement. "Bi-partisan support for the repeal of the so-called extended 1099 form reporting requirement led to passage with an 87-12 vote. The requirement would have put an extra burden on all businesses to file additional paperwork..." -- Small Business Trends, United States, 7 April 2011 |
- Transparency Requires Accuracy for IT Shops Dealing with Dodd-Frank. "New federal regulations related to the Dodd-Frank Act are currently being rolled out... most insurers are confident that the level of required reporting will increase. This will require insurers to modernize their current systems." -- PropertyCasualty360, United States, 17 March 2011 |
- Lawmakers may cancel state database used to fight prescription-drug abuse. "A Colorado database used to prevent prescription drug 'doctor shopping' is in peril after the state Senate Appropriations Committee voted against renewing the program...'It means there will be no reporting requirements for doctors or pharmacies'..." -- The Denver Post, United States, 7 March 2011 |
-EPA extends deadline for reporting GHG emissions. "The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it was extending the deadline requiring thousands of businesses to report their greenhouse gas emissions...The American Chemistry Council welcomed the delay. 'Reporting done right requires a thorough understanding of the new rules, ample time for feedback and sufficient testing to ensure a high quality database.'" -- Reuters, United States, 1 March 2011 |
- Failure to report on fishery undermines Canada's claim to arctic. "Canada’s claim to sovereignty over the Arctic is being undermined by the federal government’s failure to track Northern fisheries and to report catch data...Canada’s failure to keep a comprehensive data set has both political and environmental implications." -- The Globe and Mail, Canada, 4 February 2011 |
- Government Salaries Revealed in New Database. "In an effort to provide more transparency and accountability, state Controller John Chiang has posted a new online database of salaries for government service districts across California...Last August, Chiang announced new reporting requirements for all California localities." -- The Bay Citizen, United States, 2 February 2011 |
- EPA: How heavy is the data burden? "EPA estimates the annual public reporting and record-keeping burden — as in, the total time, effort and financial resources expended by contractors to generate, maintain, retain and provide the data — to be an average of 1,138 hours per response. The agency estimates the burden of cost per contractor to maintain the data at $9.86 million." -- Washington Business Journal, United States, 25 January 2011 |
- DHS Data on Illegal Seafarers Unreliable, Says GAO Report. "The GAO report puts most of the blame for these data inconsistencies on CBP, which has the primary responsibility for identifying and reporting the number of absconders and deserters to the Coast Guard and other relevant federal and local law enforcement agencies..." -- Security Management, United States, 19 January 2011 |
-CPSC database to make complaints transparent. "A new database to launch in March will change the way the Consumer Product Safety Commission investigates consumer complaints. A database is a great way in our electronic age to serve that purpose - to have a great, open government resource and do our job as investigators..." -- Federal News Radio, United States, 18 January 2011 |
-Who in the World Wouldn't Want to Evaluate BI Products? "Querying and reporting: Because this is the ability to access information and present it in an easily understandable way, this is one of the most important functions and should be evaluated carefully... Reporting solutions should draw on the full range of data assets and data sources to deliver a single comprehensive result. " -- Information Management, United States, 13 January 2011 |
-Saint John rated least transparent city in Canada. "A new online database comparing the finances of Canadian municipalities has ranked Saint John as the worst city in Canada for fiscal transparency...high costs as part of the reason the city has not changed its reporting format earlier." -- TelegraphJournal, Canada, 14 December 2010 |
- 5 ASC IT Considerations for the Next 5 Years. "Facility leaders will recognize and agree that reporting and oversight requirements from CMS, state agencies, accrediting bodies, payors, industry associations and other entities have increased. We view this as a trend that will continually expand as our industry matures and competition for limited reimbursement dollars increases." -- ASC (Ambulatory Surgery Centers) Review, United States, 10 December 2010 |
- Tories ignored bureaucrats on harmonizing mine pollution rules. "The Conservative government ignored a recommendation from its own bureaucrats to harmonize mine pollution reporting standards with the United States... A briefing note obtained via Access to Information laws showed that officials from the Natural Resources Department advised the government earlier this year to bring pollution-reporting standards for Canadian mining companies closer to those in the United States." -- Toronto Star, Canada, 30 November 2010 |
- Updates to pipeline and liquified natual gas reporting requirements. "These revisions will enhance PHMSA's ability to understand, measure, and assess the performance of individual operators and industry as a whole; integrate pipeline safety data to allow a more thorough, rigorous, and comprehensive understanding and assessment of risk; and expand and simplify existing electronic reporting by operators." -- Cryptome, United States, 26 November 2010 |
- Government database for consumer complaints approved. "Consumers will for the first time be able to check a government database that will compile safety complaints about a wide array of products such as toys and electrical appliances. The public database, approved Wednesday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is almost unprecedented for a government agency." -- Los Angeles Times, United States, 24 November 2010 |
- Nonprofit launches national EHR safety reporting system. "The iHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization made up of medical society executives and federal agencies, recently announced the launch of a new electronic health record (EHR) safety reporting system... 'Electronic health records are being adopted at record rates and present an opportunity to advance patient care.'" -- MEDecision, United States, 16 November 2010 |
- Sheep identification database to receive £1m funding boost. "Scottish Government support for the development of a cost-effective way to implement the electronic identification (EID) of sheep was boosted to £5 million... The additional £1m is intended to further develop and extend the ScotEID database, reporting systems from farms and recording systems that operate at marts, abattoirs and ferry terminals." -- Scotland Herald, Scotland, 10 November 2010 |
- Database Discovery Is Dubious, but Unavoidable. "Structuring data into databases has long been a solution to store complex data that can be retrieved and reported in variable ways. That data solution, however, has a legal problem in the e-discovery context." -- Law Technology News, United States, 3 November 2010 |
- GPs to report adverse events directly from practice systems. "The 1,100 GP practices using SystmOne can now use a Yellow Card reporting feature that interacts directly with the MHRA database. The regulator is working to develop similar features within other software systems." -- Healthcare Republic, United Kingdom, 3 November 2010 |
- Burlingame City Employee Salaries Released in Statewide Database. "State Controller John Chiang released a database Monday disclosing the salaries and benefits of elected officials and public employees...The numbers are based on unaudited information received from the cities and counties after Chiang issued new requirements for reporting these salaries in August." -- Burlingame Patch, United States, 26 October 2010 |
- Mining safety to be regulated under online scheme. "The Australian Government is establishing an incident reporting database to improve the occupational health and safety of miners...The national database would be both a repository for the national dataset and an incident reporting tool that can be accessed by mine sites for the purpose of reporting incidents to state regulators." -- Computerworld, Australia, 22 October 2010 |
- A New Wave of Measurement and Reporting Is on the Way. "Another crucial -- and much-needed -- component that will reinforce the growing number of private-sector sustainability programs is a global reporting standard. Right now there’s no globally accepted framework that brings together financial, environmental, social, and governance information in a clear, concise, consistent, comparable, and integrated format.." -- Greentech Media, United States, 4 October 2010 |
- In reporting pay, firms can err big. "...dozens of mistakes publicly traded companies in Massachusetts made in reporting executive compensation to shareholders and federal regulators... None of the companies contacted by the Globe disputed the errors. Instead, many blamed typos, arithmetic errors, switched digits, and other blunders." -- The Boston Globe, United States, 4 October 2010 |
- Survey: Poor data quality most common business intelligence problem. "The most common obstacle standing between companies and successful business intelligence deployments isn’t slow query performance, company politics or even a lack of end-user skills. It’s bad data... Soft benefits, like faster or more accurate reporting and better business decisions, are much more likely to be achieved than ‘hard’ bottom-line benefits like reduced costs and headcounts." -- TechTarget, United States, 20 September 2010 |
- Research: State of Enterprise Databases. "We analyze survey responses and the current market reality in three key areas: operational applications, including transaction processing and some forms of reporting and inquiry, typically against recent data; analytical applications, also called data warehouses or data marts, that involve query, reporting, analysis, and data mining, typically against both recent and historical data; and the new area of extreme analytics." -- InformationWeek, United States, 18 September 2010 |
- SQL Server 2008 R2 for the Developer. "R2 gives reporting services a boost... Reporting Services probably received the biggest number of enhancements in SQL Server 2008 R2 of any feature that shipped with the original SQL Server 2008." -- Visual Studio Magazine, United States, 1 September 2010 |
- States fail to report disciplined caregivers to federal database. "Hundreds of state agencies nationwide have never told the federal government about health professionals they disciplined, undermining a central database meant to weed out dangerous caregivers...All states are required by law to report the licensed health workers they've sanctioned to databases run by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)." -- ProPublica, United States, 19 July 2010 |
- Fed staffer proposes giant financial instrument database. "But Haubrich warned it could create a reporting burden for financial firms, or simply create a data overload for supervisors...'I wonder if we'd know what we'd do with all that information if we got it,' Haubrich said. New technology would certainly be needed to spot trends in the data." -- Reuters, United States, 16 June 2010 |
- Seven reasons to care about SQL Server 2008 R2. "New BI and reporting features in SQL Server 2008 R2 hit the mark, but other additions leave SQL Server shops wanting more." InfoWorld, United States, 9 June 2010. |
- Thousands in Utah need to get on national mortgage database. "Nearly 7,200 companies and Utahns...are at risk of losing their state licenses for not entering information into a national database...The database was created as part of the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 and establishes some standards for information reporting that not all state states have required." -- The Deseret News, United States, 19 May 2010. |
- Big Leap: Microsoft makes free version of Office, its cash cow. "Google's software is unlikely to depose Office, especially among heavy business users who write reports, draw up corporate budgets and put together sales presentations." -- The Seattle Times, United States, 8 May 2010. |
- Updates to One Law School's Ranking Data. "Officials... made errors reporting some of their data that were used in the newly published America's Best Graduate School's 2011 rankings...University of Alabama's law schools would have ranked higher had its actual at graduation employment rate data had been used in the rankings instead of an estimate." -- U.S. News & World Report, United States, 2 May 2010. |
- Anthem Blue Cross withdraws planned California rate hike. "Anthem Blue Cross withdrew plans Thursday to raise health insurance rates for California customers by as much as 39 percent, citing errors in its earlier calculations." -- AP News, United States, 29 April 2010. |
- Data Mining Technology Used in Business Now Applied to Hospital Information Systems for Infection Control Programs. "Data mining technology, originally developed for use in business and scientific research, is now being used to automatically monitor clinical information among these disparate data sets including pharmacy, lab, admission/discharge and medical transcripts." -- Newswise, United States, 29 April 2010. |
- Gaps found in fire inspection records. "Despite investment in computerized database management systems since 2005, the department cannot confirm that it has a complete and accurate inventory ... Auditors found 'cumbersome and complicated paper-based inspection record-keeping systems'..." -- Honolulu Star Bulletin, United States, 29 April 2010 |
- Government Announces KiwiSaver Watchdog. "This sort of information is provided to the regulator for the six default funds, and I can see no reason why non-default funds should be subject to different reporting requirements." -- The National Business Review, New Zealand, 29 April 2010 |
- FSA fines Commerzbank for transaction data failures. "The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has imposed a £595,000 fine on Commerzbank for breaching transaction reporting rules...the bank failed to submit correct transaction reports relating to around 1.03 million transactions, an estimated 94 percent of the firm's reportable transactions between 5 November 2007 and 20 November 2009." -- Computer World UK, United Kingdom, 28 April 2010. |
- White House Tightens Cybersecurity Reporting Requirements. ""As we move away from the old-style reports and into a more real-time system of security data feeds, we are implementing solutions that actually help to protect the country rather than simply generate paperwork." -- eSecurity Planet, United States, 28 April 2010 |
- DOE Forum Discusses Federal Programs. "With the Department of Education set to spend millions of dollars from numerous grants from the federal government, DOE is looking to ensure officials are transparent with reporting requirements." -- KUAM News, Guam, 28 April 2010 |
- Health Information Technology Critical To Improving Patient Care. "IT infrastructure is needed to ensure that relevant data are collected regularly, systematically, and unobtrusively while protecting patient privacy and confidentiality." -- Information Week, United States, 15 April 2010. |
- Data-Related Issues Costing Majority of Enterprises More than $5M Annually. "Businesses must take action if they hope to leverage data as a strategic asset...This is not an initiative that can simply be delegated to IT—it needs to be supported and advanced at the highest levels of the enterprise." -- BusinessWire, United States, 13 April 2010. |
- Midmarket CFOs Lack Business Intelligence Tools To Do Their Jobs. "As a direct result of the economic crisis of the last 18 months, chief financial officers at midmarket organizations have greater clout and decision-making power than ever before, and yet a dispiriting majority of them say they lack insight and access to the data they need to be effective." -- Channel Insider, worldwide study, 8 April 2010. |
- Local Utilities Ready for Greenhouse Gas Reporting. "31 different industry sectors are now required to track and, in 2011, report their greenhouse gas emissions under a mandatory reporting rule the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enacted last Fall. " -- WFPL, United States, 7 April 2010 |
- Document Management Systems, Paperless Office. "With data lying in silos and the inherent need for organizations to extract information from data, DMS offers tremendous value to improve productivity, increase efficiency, manage risk and develop a rich business knowledge base for competitive advantage." -- Express Computer, India, 29 March 2010 |
- Clerical Error Caused Inaccuracy in Consumer Reports. "The inaccurate analysis of deadly infections at Boulder Community Hospital by Consumer Reports was based on a reporting mistake...We had submitted incorrect data." -- Boulder Daily Camera, United States, 2 February 2010. |
- Data-Driven Crime Fighting. "Law enforcement agencies adopt new tools in an effort to be more proactive in getting resources where they're most needed." -- Information Week, United States, 13 November 2009 |
- Business Intelligence Software's Time Is Now. "The recession is fostering interest in BI software, which helps companies analyze the data they collect for new cost-cutting or sales opportunities." -- Bloomberg Businessweek, worldwide survey, 2 March 2009. |
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