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Archive for March, 2010

Book update: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Imagine looking at the sky in a summer night. All the stars in the air, and suddenly, they are all gone, as if somebody turned the lights of the universe.
This is all the spoiler I’m going to give about Spin. As human beings we are capable of adopting to so many things. The hole in […]

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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 […]

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Who would be the perfect commander at war?

Orson Scott Card’s well known work: Ender’s Game, is answering this question. I won’t give you the details, since I really do not like any spoilers about books. You should read it and see if for yourself, however, I have to say that Scott makes some terrifying points in his book. One can’t help remembering […]

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Book update, Pohl and Suarez

Just in case you have not read Gateway, please do it. Pohl’s sci-fi is very impressive, focusing on a lead character who is quite defective. He is not even an anti-hero, he is just the guy in the focus, and I really appreciate that kind of balance about the depiction of lead characters.  Certain aspects […]

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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 […]

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