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Care delivery, clinical systems, medical device software, and the realities of shipping technology into regulated medicine.
22 pieces, grouped by format
June 19, 2024
Transforming Healthcare with Advanced Applications of High-Performance Computing
High-performance computing (HPC) has revolutionized healthcare, particularly in fields like oncology and biomedical engineering, where it enables researchers to perform complex simulations and genetic analyses far quicker than traditional methods. The transition from conventional numerical analysis to dynamic generative AI has further expanded the capabilities of this powerful technology, not only enhancing patient care but also reshaping expectations for rapid medical innovation.
April 19, 2025
How Senior Officials Should Think About AI Roadmaps
AI roadmaps are not just technical plans; they are trust strategies, implementation guides, and accountability tools. In this post, Shahid Shah outlines the essential components of AI roadmaps for governments and mission-driven organizations, and how to evaluate if your roadmap is truly ready for execution.
September 6, 2024
Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Crisis: Leadership Challenges and Strategic Solutions
Healthcare's cybersecurity crisis is critical, with outdated defenses exposing patient data and trust. Zero Trust is now mandatory, and delays in breach detection can cause immense damage. Effective leadership, including fractional CISOs, is essential for modern defense. Inaction isn't an option, proactive steps are necessary to safeguard against sophisticated threats.
January 22, 2006
Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
*This article is written by Abhay Bakshi, who put together a book review of Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects. I like the book and what Abhay thought about it and I thank him for sharing his views.*
August 20, 2024
CTOs: The Overlooked Asset in a VC's Portfolio
Venture capitalists often overlook the strategic importance of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), mistaking technical co-founders as a simple checkbox. A seasoned CTO bridges vision and execution, aligning tech strategy with business goals, mitigating risks, and driving innovation, key factors that can make or break a startup's success.
September 23, 2023
Staff Retention Might Be More Important Than Recruiting
Staff retention refers to the ability of a company to retain its employees over a period of time. It is a crucial aspect of any organization, especially in the technology sector where skilled professionals are in high demand.…
January 6, 2006
If engineers or database administrators can access your data, it’s not secure
There is a general misconception in the IT community that their database servers are somehow their most secure systems and that *because* they are secure their customers data and their own financial information is safe. Let me…
October 2, 2006
Independent Verification and Validation: The NASA Approach
Very few of us deal with the kinds of problems that engineers at NASA face, except for perhaps other engineers working in safety critical fields like avionics and medical devices. I live nearby NASA’s Goddard Space Flight…
February 25, 2006
Securing Your Desktops from Pod Slurping
The EMR and HIPAA blog has posted additional information on “pod slurping”: Securing Your Desktops – Pod Slurping. He’s started a good discussion out there and we should join in to see if we can talk about policies health IT…
December 17, 2005
Hospital to txt message its patients
Victor at HITSphere reports Hospital to txt message its patients. This is a great example of how simple tools like using email and now text messaging can save costs without introducing much new IT infrastructure. Of course, in…
December 14, 2005
CPOE studies generate buzz
I was interviewed by Andis Roberznieks of *Modern Healthcare* in his latest article entitled *CPOE studies generate buzz*. It was about my thoughts on the Cerner CPOE study that I wrote about a couple of times last week.
October 13, 2005
A few early HHS awards for interoperable health information technology
A few important early contracts have been awarded by HHS to learn more about the EMR, EHR, and Healthcare IT market. If you’re in the healthcare world, take a look at this report and this one.
October 12, 2005
Attitudes of Americans Regarding Personal Health Records
The Markle Foundation has released the *Attitudes of Americans Regarding Personal Health Records and Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange* research report. It’s numbers are bit lower than the numbers from the 2004…
October 9, 2005
HHS National Health Information Infrastructure contract awards forthcoming
Those of us involved in the healthcare IT (HIT) market may want to keep an eye on these new awards and other RFIs related to it. According to Government Computer News (GCN):
July 26, 2005
Open Healthcare Framework
The Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework Project was proposed back in June and seems to be a great undertaking. Although it is *going* to do (assuming it succeeds) some of the same things that our open source Medigy Platform…
July 22, 2005
Another HL7 library
I spent some time in Canada this week talking to a health informatics client of mine and they pointed me to a nifty little open source HL7 parser called HAPI. I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet, but it looks to solve a…
July 1, 2005
Silly statement of the month: Java “Generics Considered Harmful”
I just read through Ken Arnold’s blog entry where he claims that Java generics may be harmful. His point was that generics are too hard to explain (he’s writing a book) and have some limitations so they should be considered…
May 18, 2005
Open source Electronic Medical Records (EMR) software
I just ran across this link that provides a list of existing open source *Electronic Medical Records* (EMR) solutions. I’ve been working off and on in this space for almost 8 years but the field just doesn’t seem to mature.…
April 30, 2005
MD Logix might actually make MDA useful
There’s been a lot of talk recently about *Model Driven Architecture* (MDA) being perhaps a silver bullet or at least a potentially great solution for development of complex software. In my travels as a consulting architect to…
February 21, 2005
XML DTD (Schema) for Patient Medical Record
If you’re looking to enable a service-oriented healthcare architecture you’re going to need some good DTDs and XSDs (XML Schemas) for managing patient data. This link contains information about the ASTN DTDs for exchanging…
February 20, 2005
Open source health care resources
Just ran across this nice link that lists many open source projects that could be useful for health/medical informatics professionals. Another good link is http://www.linuxmednews.org/ which is a Slashdot-like site with links…
February 5, 2005
HL7 in Java
Much of my consulting work happens to be in the healthcare industry so HL7 is a major standard that I have to deal with. I just ran across this great set of HL7 utilities, all written in Java. Mike’s written some good code to…