Posted in IT, development, healthcare on Aug 17th, 2010
XML has a billion uses in software development. It is being used in everything from persistence to GUI representation, with lots of weird edge cases included in the mix. Personally, I do not like XML, because I can’t read it comfortably. I’ve always seen it as a computer to computer communication mechanism which is readable […]
Posted in IT, healthcare on Jul 22nd, 2010
Wow! I do not know how I should feel about this. Heather Leslie of Ocean Informatics wrote on Twitter that MS is leaving the HIS market, and as you can read here, it is true.
Now I’ve written about Amalga more than 2 years ago, and I was excited about what it may become. I was […]
Posted in IT, healthcare on Jul 6th, 2010
Wow! I can’t believe I have not written anything for two months.Well, time to catch up then.
Ibelieve that EHR implementation is not taking off because of some fundamental problems, and I’ve written about them before. Check out my previous posts for anti-patterns in EHR implementation.One of the things I have not mentioned (or maybe I […]
Posted in IT, healthcare on Mar 15th, 2010
One of the realities of the IT domain is that, unless you are the first vendor to offer a solution for a particular domain, you are quite likely to be replacing a legacy solution with your offering.
The existence of a legacy system makes the process of EHR implementation much more complex compared to lack of […]
Posted in IT, healthcare on Mar 5th, 2010
I’ve been writing some stuff about the things that I keep seeing in the healthcare IT world, especially regarding EHR implementation. Most of it is in draft from now, but I wanted to write down about a particular one, the addiction to perfection.
My PhD is in a way focusing on the lack of perfection in […]