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The same mentality everywhere, really, not just software. Doctors ask "have you ever treated a patient?" Pilots ask "how many flights have you flown?"

Because it may be cheap, available, and gasp aligning with China might not be so bad overall compared to alternatives.

Opex is "better" than capex, because cash is king. Capex in general means you pay upfront and reap benefits later. Opex in general means you reap benefits now and pay later (via in…

A business can be EBITDA positive but cashflow negative, or vice versa. However healthly your margin is, it is game over if you are unable to service your debts (including employee…

I don't understand. Artists can also use these models to generate art, and looking at other industries, there are significant differences between professional output and "machine g…

I thought the whole reason for encrypted connections is to deny information as much as possible from intermediaries (ISPs), so those who control servers can hoard all the informati…

In virtually every country, there exists the definition of legal tender, which basically is the currency that taxes are paid and the currency that courts recognize as viable paymen…

I would say it is not about writing style but more about the personality of the author. According to MBTI for example, people are either Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and I would im…

I would imagine that a "real programming language" here means not only any Turing-complete language but also a language that has been consistently at the top 10 most popular progra…

I have no idea who Jeff Sessions is, but I am sure that the rule tries to make sure that these kind of situations are the exception.

First of all, determine what value you bring with the certificates to various parties. In certified fields such as law, accounting, medicine, service providers benefit from high ba…

> Do the best tools able to solve this in a satisfactory manner(the tool issue, the organizational issue) ? How ? The best solution is I believe relentless continuous manual curati…

If only everyone has your mindset. Patients do complain - a lot. They never think that waiting another 1 hour is okay because it makes things safer - what they think is that they (…

I completely agree, although the attitude at facilities where this has been done extensively is always "how can we reduce the alert/popup/notification burden" because it always inv…

I am not a doctor, but I do have several practical defenses (I don't want to go through political ones). There are many business processes in the healthcare field, and the impact a…

This is already being done in a small number of hospitals in the USA and other parts of the world. The problem is mainly the resources (money and time) needed to repackage all the …

It's a question of resources as well. Adding checklists means more time and audit needed. Let's say something initially took 30 secs (due to the muscle memory prowess of the health…

But among those 65000+ animals, only one has successfully increased its average lifespan significantly in the past 1000+ years. Chief reasons being advancements in sanitation, medi…

I would actually think otherwise. The message format standard commonly used to pass HL7 messages right now are quite easy to parse, it is basically a CSV file using pipes and caret…

Besides the counter-examples already mentioned, healthcare is already relatively unsafe - there are more people who die from medical errors compared to plane crashes, despite whole…

I want to add that a lot of value of the EMR system comes from integration - i.e. smooth data flow between touch points / care areas / visits / institutions. So it is rather hard t…

One of the reason why this has been so difficult is the mind-bogglingly high dimensionality of the data. For example, a general medicine physician is interested in the body weight …

I recently compared various ways to automate Excel with python: http://leontius.net/2014/excel-data-analysis-python/ Xlwings is something I did not know before writing the post, bu…

I see, it is indeed quite different. I'm not sure what the Orphan Drug Act specifically says though. Actually if the market is potentially quite large, big pharmas should already b…