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9 Models To Scale Open Data – Past, Present And Future
The possibilities of open data have been enthralling us for 10 years. But that excitement isn’t what matters in the end. What matters is scale – which organisational structures will make this movement explode? Read More »
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As Hospital Prices Soar, A Stitch Tops $500
With blood oozing from deep lacerations, the two patients arrived at California Pacific Medical Center’s tidy emergency room. Deepika Singh, 26, had gashed her knee at a backyard barbecue. Orla Roche, a rambunctious toddler on vacation with her family, had tumbled from a couch, splitting open her forehead on a table... Read More »
Interoperability? Not Without Standards
We constantly hear that healthcare needs interoperability like the ATM or cell phone networks, but what does that really mean? Interoperability is becoming more important as we begin to implement systems in all of healthcare. The goal of the HITECH and ACA legislation was to increase the use of HIT throughout the modes of care. Once implemented, especially at scale, these systems need to easily talk or communicate with each other. Read More »
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Lessons from AWS Part III: Consumer Platform Drives Cloud Lead
There has been a lot of discussion, including Part I of this series, about Amazon’s relentless leverage of scale to drive down pricing in cloud services. What is much less talked about is how its consumer platform drives its cloud leadership. Read More »
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Open Source Diversity Efforts Gain Momentum in 2016
If software is pervasive, shouldn't the people building it be from everywhere and represent different voices? The broadly accepted answer is yes, that we need a diverse set of developers and technologists to build the new digital world. Further, when you look at communities that thrive, they are those that evolve and grow and bring in new voices and perspectives. Because much of the software innovation happening today involves open source software, the open source community can be an entry point for new people in technology roles. This means that the open source community must evolve to stay relevant...
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