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Report from HIMMS Health IT conference: building or bypassing infrastructure

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | comments: 0 An old sales pitch in the computer field (which I first heard at Apollo Computer in the 1980s) goes, "The network is the computer." In the coming age of EHRs, the network is the clinic. My family practitioner (in ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc

Report from HIMMS Health IT conference: toward interoperability and openness

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | comments: 0 Electronic medical systems and electronic record systems These do all the heavy labor that make health care IT work (or fail). They can be divided into many categories, ranging from the simple capturing of ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Amazon.com,  University of Pittsburgh

Report from HIMMS Health IT conference: from Silicon Valley technology to Silicon Valley risk-taking

I'm in Atlanta for the biggest US conference in health care IT, run by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). This organization, along with the branch of the federal government responsible for dispersing funds for a medical ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  2 Mar 2010

NoSQL conference coming to Boston

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | comments: 1 So who uses these things? To take Horowitz's MongoDB again as an example, many web sites gravitate toward it because the document structure makes some things--adding fields to rows, mapping objects ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  24 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Chris Anderson,  Google Inc.,  SXSW,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Innovation Lessons in "Start-Up Nation"

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | comments: 0 I'll end by exploring the positive role of government in Israel. Entrepreneurial government is just as important as entrepreneurial business--but it must do different things. In this regard the Israeli experience ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  14 Feb 2010

Related Topics: NASDAQ,  Intel,  Shai Agassi

One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | comments: 0 Flat-rate long distance calls I remember waiting past my bedtime to make long-distance calls, and getting down to business real quick to avoid high charges. Conventional carriers were forced to flat-rate pricing ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  4 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Oprah Winfrey

Innovation Battles Investment as FCC Road Show Returns to Cambridge

Opponents can shed their rhetoric and reveal new depths to their thought when you bring them together for rapid-fire exchanges, sometimes with their faces literally inches away from each other. That made it worth my while to truck down to the MIT Media ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  14 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Federal Communications Commission,  Skype,  Comcast,  AT&T Inc.,  Harvard University

Pew Research asks questions about the Internet in 2020

Pew Research, which seems to be interested in just about everything, conducts a "future of the Internet" survey every few years in which they throw outrageously open-ended and provocative questions at a chosen collection of observers in the areas of ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  7 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Nicholas Carr,  Eric von Hippel,  Twitter Inc,  Hedda Gabler

The fate of WIPO, ACTA, and other intellectual property pushes in the international economy

Intellectual property wars are fiercer than ever, although the institutions most affected (including the media) prefer not to talk about them. But we may be in for a pendulum shift. I recently put out a tweet on this topic and was asked to expand on it. ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  6 Jan 2010

Being online: Conclusion--identity narratives

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. After viewing in rotation the various facets of that gem that we call identity, it is time for us to polish and view them in one piece. This series has explored what identity means in an online medium, ...

From ANDY ORAM, O'Reilly Radar,  30 Dec 2009

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