Since 2016 is the 20th year I’ve served as CIO, I’ve given a great deal of thought to the various careers I’ve had and the roadmap for the 20 next years of my working life. In my late teens and 20s I was an entreprenuer running a 35 person software company while doing my medical and graduate school training. I was also a winemaker, home builder and engineer. In my early 30’s I was an Emergency physician, software coder, and data analyst. In my mid 30’s as a CIO, I focused on architecture, high reliability computing, and centralization of IT service delivery. In my early 40’s, I focused on disaster recovery, interoperability, and educational technologies..
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Mobile Phones to Be Used to Collect Health Data in Ethiopia
Meron Tekleberhan | Ethiopian Business News | October 20, 2011
Mobile Phones will be used to help health professionals collect data, have it analyzed and receive feedback in a show case project to be launched next week in Ethiopia. The project is led by Technology for Change International and is expected to cost approximately 370,000 US dollars. Read More »
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Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor
Jamie M. Zimmerman and Sascha Meinrath | Slate | February 9, 2012
Entrepreneurs, businesses, NGOs, and governments exalt mobile technology as a game-changing tool to fight global poverty. But what if our eagerness to connect the world is inadvertently exacerbating the global economic divide? Read More »
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Open Source Cloud and Middleware Company WSO2 Attracts $20 Million in Funding
Press Release |
WSO2, Pacific Controls, Toba Capital |
August 13, 2015
WSO2 today announced that it has closed a $20 million funding round led by Pacific Controls, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions, and joined by Toba Capital. The investment comes in the wake of increasing demand for WSO2’s comprehensive, open source middleware platform for building, integrating, managing, securing and analyzing companies’ APIs, applications, and Web services—on-premises, in the cloud, on mobile and IoT devices.
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Seeking Prior Art Where It Most Often Is Found In Software
Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | August 28, 2012
Open Invention Network plans to mine open source projects for patent busters Read More »
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Senstore Wants To Make A Tricorder That Monitors The Entire Body
Peter Murray | Singularity Hub | January 12, 2012
What a great place that Singularity University is. Smart, motivated people coming together to make the world a better place through technology. This past summer a group of talented students put their heads together to tackle the Global Health grand challenge. What they came up with was a hardware platform built into a t-shirt for which developers might design sensory applications. Read More »
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The Joy of Mentoring
By John D. Halamka, MD | September 7, 2016
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Unopened iPad Stolen from VA as Program Launches
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | October 31, 2011
As soon as the Department of Veterans Affairs launched its program to allow Apple iPad tablets to be used on the job, an unopened one was stolen from an agency office in Washington, according to a VA senior official. But that will not deter the VA’s plans to integrate mobile devices into healthcare delivery. Read More »
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VA Employees to Test Mobile Access to Information Networks Via Tablets, Smartphones
Wyatt Kash | AOL Government | September 29, 2011
The Veterans Affairs Department is expected to launch a test program next week that would permit as many as 1,000 VA employees to use mobile smartphone and tablet devices to access the VA's information network, according to comments made by VA's Roger Baker, reported by Federal News Radio. Read More »
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VA Seeks New Patient Scheduling System
Bob Brewin | NextGov | January 3, 2012
The Veterans Affairs Department has kicked off the contracting process to develop its new patient scheduling system, a follow-up to a nine year, $167 million project that collapsed in March 2009 and led VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to call for a review of all the department's information technology projects by February 2012. Read More »
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VA Will Get Wi-Fi Upgrade at All Med Facilities
Sara Jackson | FierceMobileHealthcare | June 7, 2012
The Department of Veterans Affairs just took another big step in its mobile journey. In what is being called one of the "world's largest wireless mobility infrastructure," the VA is upgrading the Wi-Fi networks at all 26 of its medical facilities nationwide. Read More »
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VA's Plan for Mobile Device Security
Howard Anderson | Government Information Security | October 20, 2011
Roger Baker, CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, outlines the department's mobile device security strategy, providing details on the rollout of iPhones and iPads. The VA expects to accommodate the use of as many as 100,000 iPads and iPhones within 18 months, including a mix of government-owned and personal mobile devices, Baker says. Read More »
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WSO2 Founder and CEO to Unveil Latest Product Developments For Harnessing Today’s Connected World At WSO2Con US 2014
Press Release |
WSO2 |
October 28, 2014
In an increasingly connected world, enterprises are extending new business models, processes and services across their employees, customers and partners. In his keynote presentation at WSO2Con US 2014 today, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO, will discuss how competing in this connected world requires a new holistic approach to IT architecture that harnesses the combined power of the cloud, APIs mobile computing, Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, DevOps, and integration...
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Zillow Speaker Series: Steven VanRoekel, White House Chief Information Officer (VIDEO)
Staff Writer | Zillow Blog | August 27, 2012
When Steven VanRoekel moved to Washington, D.C., to take a job as managing director of the Federal Communications Commission in 2009, it was his first time working for government. The self-described “geek at heart” had worked at Microsoft since college and had never planned on working in public service. Read More »
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“The President of the United States is on the Phone. Would You Like to Hangout on Google+?”
Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | January 24, 2012
We're suddenly very close to science fiction becoming reality television, live streamed to large and small screens around the world. Read More »
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