Recently, I heard a question targeted at my colleagues at Ocean, something in the lines of “what do you think is your greatest accomplishment ?” Ocean’s software stack has a lot of impressive components, the template designer with its TDO support, the back end repository, Tom’s Eiffel work that is called the Archetype workbench, and [...]
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Why reference models matter in healthcare IT?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Harvard study says: “Computers don’t save money in hospitals”.
Posted in Uncategorized 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 I’ve read, a summary for the fellow geek
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2009 |
Ok, slightly off topic, but if you are interested in my reading list for the last couple of months, here is a brief summary. Atul Gawande, “Better “. Professor Ingram gave this book to me. If you want to see how doctors see certain things, and how hard it is to perform some tasks which [...]
FPS games and motion sickness
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2009 |
It used to happen to me in the past. After playing for about 4 or 5 hours, and slightly. After almost 10 years of not playing fps games, I bought myself a copy of Half Life 2, and it hit me like a truck! I can’t believe the strength of the nausea I experience after [...]
Why on earth we don’t have open source proper terminology servers?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2009 |
The competition amont different information models in healthcare will never end. Yes, I know that there are many out there who think that a particular piece of work is so much better than the rest, and it is the feature of healthcare informatics. Sorry, I don’t agree. There are many other reasons, which I’d like [...]
Consuming all the fish in the world?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2009 |
Does not sound possible right? I’m afraid the news are not that good though; not only it is possible, but we are just about to do this. Yes it is not about healthcare informatics or development or anything like that, but some things just get to me. Check out this independent article for details. I’ve [...]
Reject dirty data! Don’t let it in, no matter what happens
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2009 |
More of a note to myself. Just working on the JSF bindings of the soon to be announced openEHR framework, and due to nature of my persistence model, once bad data finds its way into db, it messes the whole form entry. It is possible to modify the persistence mechanism for immunity to bad data, [...]
Very sad state of Eclipse GUI designers
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2008 |
I have just realized that the VE (Visual Editor) project does not support Eclipse versions above 3.2. Moreover, the project seems to be dead, and even if there are a few people who seems to be active in the project mail list, the overall look scene is not very promising. I am just starting a [...]
London
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2008 |
The title is simple, but means a lot for me at the moment. I’ve moved to London for starting a PhD in University College London, CHIME. It took a a lot of steps, it took quite a lot of time, and there is a lot that must be done here. This is a short entry, [...]
OpenVPN, lessons learned
Posted in Uncategorized on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just setup OpenVPN on a windows xp machine, and found out that there are both good and bad sides of it. Good thing is; if you do not deviate from the well known scenario, follow the howtos, you’ll mostly make it fairly easily on windows. Bad thing is; I rarely stay within well known [...]
