Editor
Areas of Expertise:
- free and open source software
- health IT
- writing
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Andy blogs at:
http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/
http://radar.oreilly.com/data/
http://oreilly.com/blogs/
How to start a successful business in health care at Health 2.0 conference
May 16 2012
Great piles of cash are descending on entrepreneurs who develop health care apps, but that doesn't make it any easier to create a useful one that your audience will adopt. About the Spring Fling conference, enterpreneurship, and open data. read moreLucene conference touches many areas of growth in search
May 11 2012
With a modern search engine and smart planning, web sites can provide visitors with a better search experience than Google. Why turn-out for the new "big data" track was lower than I expected, and other news from this week's conference about using Lucene big and small. read moreThe state of health IT according to the American Hospital Association
May 06 2012
The letter conveys a rather sorrowful message about the state of health IT in the United States. One request--to put brakes on the requirement for hospitals to let patients see their own information electronically--has received particularly strong coverage and vigorous responses. read moreRecombinant Research: Breaking open rewards and incentives
May 02 2012
To move from a hothouse environment of experimentation to the mainstream of one of the world's most lucrative and tradition-bound industries, Sage Bionetworks must aim for its nucleus: rewards and incentives. Comparisons to open source software and a summary of tasks for Sage Congress. read moreRecombinant Research: Sage Congress plans for patient engagement
May 01 2012
The Vioxx problem is just one instance of the wider malaise afflicting the drug industry. Managers from major pharma companies expressed confidence that they could expand public or "pre-competitive" research in the direction Sage Congress proposed. The sector left to engage is the one that's central to all this work--the… read moreRecombinant Research: Sage Congress promotes data sharing in genetics
April 30 2012
Through two days of demos, keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions, Sage Congress brought its vision to a high-level cohort of 230 attendees from universities, pharmaceutical companies, government health agencies, and others who can make change in the field. read moreSage Congress: The synthesis of open source with genetics
April 19 2012
A conversation with Sage Bionetworks founder Stephen Friend about how open source can support a business model in drug development, the progress of current data sharing projects, and more. read moreMySQL in 2012: Report from Percona Live
April 14 2012
Contrasting deployments at craigslit and Pinterest, trends, commercial offerings, and more read morePromoting and documenting a small software project: VoIP Drupal update
April 06 2012
Part of a series about efforts by VoIP Drupal collaborators to find the right media and tools with which to promote a small, little known software project. read moreSteep climb for National Cancer Institute toward open source collaboration
April 05 2012
Although a lot of government agencies produce open source software, hardly any develop relationships with a community of outside programmers, testers, and other contributors. NCI sees the advantages of a give-and-take. read moreFive tough lessons I had to learn about health care
March 26 2012
Despite the disappointments I've undergone in learning about health care, I expect the system to change for the better. Those who want a better system need to look at the areas where change is most likely to make a difference. read moreReport from HIMSS 12: wrap-up of the largest health IT conference
February 29 2012
Recalcitrant instincts that depressed me and progressive suggestions that restored me. Details DICOM, Watson, and other interesting projects. read moreReport from HIMSS 2012: toward interoperability and openness
February 23 2012
Two key pillars of the Stage 2 announcement are requirements to use the Direct for data exchange and HL7's consolidated CDA for the format. read moreReport from HIMSS: health care tries to leap the chasm from the average to the superb
February 22 2012
HIMSS has promoted good causes, but only recently has it addressed cost, interoperability, and open source issues that can allow health IT to break out of the elite of institutions large or sophisticated enough to adopt the right practices. read moreDocumentation strategy for a small software project: launching VoIP Drupal introductions
February 17 2012
VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. A meeting at at MIT this week worked out some long-term plans for firming up VoIP Drupal's documentation and other training materials. read moreWhat the data can tell us about dating and other social congregation
February 15 2012
As people go online, they leave a trail of data that could never be captured before. read moreAbout the Emerging Battles Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives
February 14 2012
Two dramatically opposed announcements from Apple and the state of California put the textbook publishing industry on notice recently that it could be facing rapid disruption. But open textbooks can't be created and altered as easily as open source software. read moreSmall Massachusetts HIT conference returns to big issues in health care
February 06 2012
The real reason hospitals haven't joined health information exchanges, and other reports from the Massachusetts Heath Data Consortium's annual conference. read moreA discussion with David Farber: bandwidth, cyber security, and the obsolescence of the Internet
January 30 2012
I pumped Farber for big ideas about where the Internet is headed: how long it can last, slaying the bandwidth bottleneck, and waiting for the big breach. read moreJanuary 20 2012
A tour of the new Massachusetts spending site, accolades and critiques from leading open government advocates, and an examination of it takes to produce data you can query for useful information. read moreMedical imaging in the cloud: a conversation about eMix
January 16 2012
It's a situation crying out for networked transfer, but HIPAA requires careful attention to security and privacy. read moreWhat would you like policy-makers to know about computing? Brian Kernighan's solution
December 29 2011
Brian W. Kernighan has been working for years to see that policy-makers knos a thing or two about the Internet, and now he has written a book called D is for Digital: What a well-informed person ought to know about computers and and communications. read moreHealthTap's growth validates hypotheses about doctors and patients
December 10 2011
HealthTap has revealed two interesting and perhaps unexpected traits about doctors: they will take the time to post information online for free, and they are willing to rate each other. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: Crowdsourced news and professional journalists: pulling together to replace the tug-of-war
March 27, 2012
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Watch the webcast in its original format > This webcast covers both the threat and the promise presented to professional journalism by citizen journalism, social networking, and other crowdsourcing...
Also find Andy on:
Recent Twitter posts:
Buy Now and Save
Use discount code: OPC10
All orders over $29.95 qualify for free shipping within the US. See details.
