laurenstill

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by laurenstill 13y ago
HIPAA compliance, especially considering the new rules for BAA, will be huge for the health market.
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by laurenstill 13y ago
Still figuring this out. 5 computers, 5 different OS...
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by laurenstill 13y ago
I successfully converted several medical practices to Ubuntu last year. 60+ yr old docs who printed emails to leave on my desk. 18 yr old who save everything to the desktop. Better than expected.
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by laurenstill 13y ago
Several are trying, but without aanything being open sourced, and not not knowing what the data later looks like, it's a wee bit challenging. Plus, HHS is dead set in bringing Verizon on board to clean the mess.
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by laurenstill 13y ago
If you want out of the box, dell makes an ubuntu xps (sputnik, I have one), but the mouse sucks and there are some sound driver issues. What sort of hardware dev are you doing? I end up running a VM for much of my work.
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by laurenstill 13y ago
The administration has has taken several steps backwards in terms of transparency. How serious are they regarding open gov? I hope this happens, but I'm doubtful.
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by laurenstill 13y ago
I spent most of my professional career in windows (healthcare, IE6, etc) but personally switch to ubuntu a couple years ago as I got into development. I do find myself reaching for my work MBP when I have to do video/photo editing stuf
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by laurenstill 13y ago
That was my understanding as well... so if it's out of date, why bother taking it down, and changing their policies in the middle of a PR shitstorm. Seems to just add fuel to the fire...
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by laurenstill 13y ago
Their initial pitch started along the lines of "where else can we present this appropriately other than an all adult female hardware hackathon" and the conversation was fairly technical, and mature. I was skeptical at first as we
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by laurenstill 13y ago
Yeh, did not expect much work detail, but that makes sense. Most of my fellows voice op-eds of frustration, so it's nice to see someone defend it a bit ;-)
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by laurenstill 13y ago
Non-tech question, but with your background, you could have migrated to any field. Anything stand out as a motivation to move in the direction you did? LabVIEW/MATLAB were my early intros into CS. I haven't really touched MUMPS
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by laurenstill 13y ago
I don't remember where I read it, but ask to interview them, either for your blog, or something else. I've done this a few times with people I considered reach connections. Two years later, they are some of my closest allies.
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by laurenstill 13y ago
There's a huge initiative for open API use in healthcare. Take a look into BlueButton if you're interested. http://blue-button.github.io/blue-button-plus-pull/
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by laurenstill 13y ago
I never understood, since HIPAA is theoretically designed to protect the patient's privacy, why doctors/practioners aren't required to sign notices/contracts to the patient.
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by laurenstill 13y ago
paramedic on the window floor, or at ground level?