XML has a billion uses in software development. It is being used in everything from persistence to GUI representation, with lots of weird edge cases included in the mix. Personally, I do not like XML, because I can’t read it comfortably. I’ve always seen it as a computer to computer communication mechanism which is readable [...]
Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
openEHR and web services, the dirty business of XML: part 1
Posted in development, healthcare, IT on August 17, 2010 |
Microsoft leaving HIS market!
Posted in healthcare, IT on July 22, 2010 |
Wow! I do not know how I should feel about this. Heather Leslie of Ocean Informatics wrote on Twitter that MS is leaving the HIS market, and as you can read here, it is true. Now I’ve written about Amalga more than 2 years ago, and I was excited about what it may become. I [...]
Medical tourism (or outsourcing): is it the perfect use case for EHRs?
Posted in healthcare, IT on July 6, 2010 |
Wow! I can’t believe I have not written anything for two months.Well, time to catch up then. Ibelieve that EHR implementation is not taking off because of some fundamental problems, and I’ve written about them before. Check out my previous posts for anti-patterns in EHR implementation.One of the things I have not mentioned (or maybe [...]
Watching Java die
Posted in IT on April 11, 2010 |
Now that James Gosling has left Oracle, the trend has become even more obvious: key people who have made Java a success, are leaving Oracle. This is not news to me, but I had hopes of being wrong about my expectations. I’ve watched Oracle acquire some very capable technology firms, focusing on Java, and one [...]
Anti patterns in EHR implementation: Part 2 – Legacy systems, people and processes
Posted in healthcare, IT on March 15, 2010 |
One of the realities of the IT domain is that, unless you are the first vendor to offer a solution for a particular domain, you are quite likely to be replacing a legacy solution with your offering. The existence of a legacy system makes the process of EHR implementation much more complex compared to lack [...]
Anti patterns in EHR implementation, part 1: addiction to perfection.
Posted in healthcare, IT on March 5, 2010 |
I’ve been writing some stuff about the things that I keep seeing in the healthcare IT world, especially regarding EHR implementation. Most of it is in draft from now, but I wanted to write down about a particular one, the addiction to perfection. My PhD is in a way focusing on the lack of perfection [...]
Harvard study says: “Computers don’t save money in hospitals”.
Posted in healthcare, IT on December 1, 2009 |
Ok, this is a paper that should provoke a huge discussion. This paper with two of its authors from Harvard says that the picture in hospitals with computers is quite different than the one we always thought we would see. Obviously one should read the paper before discussing it, and I did so. First of [...]
What happens when your research topic goes out of fashion?
Posted in healthcare, IT on September 29, 2009 |
What? My research never goes out of fashion! How can it go out of fashion when the problem is not solved, and my PhD is not even remotely appearing in the horizon? Well, you may be right, but when I say fashion, I mean the hype your research topic can create. The amount of people [...]
Google Sidewiki
Posted in IT on September 28, 2009 |
Google has just released sidewiki, a toolbar that allows you to attach comments to web pages. This is a step that will allow a (supposedly) large number of users to attach information to a resource, and Google will try to rank the comments using their ratings, which will be provided by other users. To me, [...]
JRuby team gone, who is next?
Posted in IT on September 5, 2009 |
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is having minor bumps, and in the process is making what would happen anyway happen faster. Cryptic? Well, how about this: JRuby team has left Sun. Their work was important, quite important actually. I’ve done some Ruby work before, of course starting with Ruby on Rails projects and after that some [...]
