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by nunie123 5y ago
I just started at a health insurance startup that is doing exactly what the article recommends: simplifying billing. Patients pay for procedures "in cash", using a card debiting the insurance company's account. Because doctor
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by nunie123 5y ago
I started a project last week requiring me to learn the proprietary EDI file format that CMS mandates. I was surprised to learn that in order to exchange healthcare data with our government we have to use a file format owned by a private en
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by nunie123 6y ago
Co-ops are usually a republic, not a democracy. People still have specific roles, and those roles have authority to make specific decisions without getting a majority vote for that decision.
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by nunie123 6y ago
The data is being moved, it's just that the mechanism to move it was the FDWs, instead of e.g. an Airflow DAG. The FDWs are interesting because they're update-on-query as opposed to updating on a fixed schedule or update on a sour
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by nunie123 6y ago
I agree with much of what you said. However, I'm disinclined to believe there will be a trend away from a centralized data warehouse (or data lake). There is inherent value in having a single source of truth for analytics. With modern
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by nunie123 6y ago
I agree the BigQuery and Snowflake are very nice options for an analytical database. I've used Postgres's FDWs for an analytical DB at a past job. The reason we used them was because we needed minimal analytics for the projects, a
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by nunie123 6y ago
> I can't believe that some startup hasn't glassdoored billing practices yet by patients simply uploading screenshots of their bills when they get them. I believe this is what Sidecar Health is working on: https://si
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by nunie123 6y ago
I'll take a look. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by nunie123 6y ago
A book for setting up data engineering infrastructure on GCP: https://github.com/Nunie123/data_engineering_on_gcp_book It's almost done, and I do plan to spend a little effort promoting it when it's complete,
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by nunie123 6y ago
Yes, the bar exam requires you to learn much law you'll never use. They are a general test that covers all areas of the law. Boards are for specific specialties. You don't take a board to be a doctor, you take a board to be a podi
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by nunie123 6y ago
There are plenty of smart people in Texas, of course. However, it may be difficult to attract scientific-minded employees to a location where their kids will be taught on a curriculum that rejects science in some regards. That also hints at