How about this: in Harvard Business Review, two leaders at Johns Hopkins suggested that hospitals could learn something about buying equipment from -- drum roll, please -- the airline industry. You don't often find many people defending airlines these days, much less holding them up as good examples of anything (except, perhaps, about what not to do, what with overbooking, cramped leg space, plenty of add-on fees, and, of course, dragging paying passengers off planes). That their recommendations make sense probably says more, though, about how poorly health care often does things than how well airlines do...
Health Care Goes to the Mall
By Kim Bellard | June 27, 2017
It's either auspicious or ironic: decades after other retail industries, health care is coming to the mall. These are not, generally, good days for the malls. We've all seen strip malls that were never finished or that have simply fallen on hard times, but in recent years those stalwarts of American shopping -- enclosed malls -- are sharing that fate. Credit Suisse says that 20-25% of the 1,100 U.S. malls will close over the next five years. Analysts talk about "zombie" malls, whose anchor tenants -- like Sears, JC Penny, or Macys -- have pulled out, creating an exodus of other tenants. The malls themselves still stand, but their largely deserted storefronts and scarce shoppers mean they're dead but they don't know it...
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How Containers and DevOps Transformed Duke University's IT Department
By Chris Collins | June 27, 2017
It's difficult, even in retrospect, to know which came first for us: containers or a shift towards DevOps culture. At Duke University's Office of Information Technology (OIT), we began looking at containers as a way to achieve higher density from the virtualized infrastructure used to host websites. Virtual machine (VM) sprawl had started to become a problem. We favored separating each client's website onto its own VM for both segregation and organization, but steady growth meant we were managing more servers than we could handle. As we looked for ways to lower management overhead and make better use of resources, Docker hit the news, and we began to experiment with containerization for our web applications...
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Are Open Source Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Services Subject to HIPAA Regulations?
By Noam H. Arzt, Ph.D. | June 26, 2017
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) services such as HLN’s Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) are modular, loosely-coupled components of larger systems accessed via web services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Under HIPAA, services provided to Covered Entities (CE) which involve protected health information (PHI) as defined in the statute are subject to the regulation. But are CDS services such as ICE subject to this regulation?
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Condom Airborne Meds: 6 Ways Drones Could Change Health Care
Max Blau | STAT | June 13, 2017
Drones have been used to deliver sunscreen to a conference in Palm Springs, Calif., and pizza to a family in New Zealand, but they’re also in the air for far more urgent purposes — such as saving lives. In fact, in some cases, drones could carry defibrillators to heart attack victims faster than an ambulance, according to a paper published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers simulated emergency situations and found they could get automatic external defibrillators to the scene an average of 16 minutes faster by drone than by ambulance...
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A 40-Year 'Conspiracy' at the VA
Arthur Allen | Politico | March 19, 2017
Four decades ago, in 1977, a conspiracy began bubbling up from the basements of the vast network of hospitals belonging to the Veterans Administration. Across the country, software geeks and doctors were puzzling out how they could make medical care better with these new devices called personal computers. Working sometimes at night or in their spare time, they started to cobble together a system that helped doctors organize their prescriptions, their CAT scans and patient notes, and to share their experiences electronically to help improve care for veterans...
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How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess?
Christy Ford Chapin | The New York Times | June 19, 2017
The problem with American health care is not the care. It’s the insurance. Both parties have stumbled to enact comprehensive health care reform because they insist on patching up a rickety, malfunctioning model. The insurance company model drives up prices and fragments care. Rather than rejecting this jerry-built structure, the Democrats’ Obamacare legislation simply added a cracked support beam or two. The Republican bill will knock those out to focus on spackling other dilapidated parts of the system...
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If You Care About Cities, Apple's New Campus Sucks
Adam Rogers | Wired | June 8, 2017
The new headquarters Apple is building in Cupertino has the absolute best door handles. The greatest! They are, as my colleague Steven Levy writes, precision-milled aluminum rails that attach to glass doors—sliding and swinging alike—with no visible bolts. Everything in this building is the best. The toroid glass of the roof curves scientifically to shed rainwater. And if it never rains again (this being California), well, an arborist selected thousands of drought-tolerant new trees for the 175-acre site...
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Good Ideas From Unexpected Places: Thinking Creatively for Healthcare Innovation
By Kim Bellard | June 20, 2017
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Open Source Summit North America
Open Source Summit North America is a technical conference containing three events in one: LinuxCon, ContainerCon and CloudOpen. Over 2,000 attendees are expected to gather for three days to network with other open source professionals, collaborate and share information, and learn about the latest open technologies. Open Source Summit North America is one of three international summits (Japan, North America, and Europe) being presented by The Linux Foundation in 2017. The summit draws a variety of attendees, including developer, operators, and community leadership professionals...
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OW2con'17
OW2con is an annual event held in Paris for the world's OW2 community. This conference is designed to bring together software architects, IT developers, technology experts, decision-makers, and project managers for two days of project presentations, roundtables, demonstrations, keynote presentations, and free lunch. As this year's event will be the tenth annual OW2con, OW2con'17 is to be a "special edition" of OW2con and will include a 10th anniversary celebration dinner part on the evening of June 26...
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