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The Problem With Google And Why You Should Care

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Bob

When I read The Case Against Google in The New York Times last week it was with a typical technology interest eye. It was like reading the local paper about hit-and-runs, robberies, or the latest political scandal. Somewhat interesting, but it really … Continue reading →

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Google Health: R.I.P.

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Bob

The announcement that Google Health was being discontinued shouldn’t be a surprise.  In March the Wall Street Journal reported that once Larry Page took over the CEO role at Google he would be looking to cut projects: Some managers believe Mr. … Continue reading →

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A Medical Device Gateway Data Standard?

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Bob

The Wipro OEM medical device gateway press release makes it all seem so easy (my highlight): The device, consisting of interfaces that can feed-in data such as blood pressure, pulse rate, ECG reading and weight from the respective devices, is … Continue reading →

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Access to Medical Data: Are PC Standards and PHRs (You) the Answer?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Bob

Dana Blankenhorn’s article Give medicine access to PC standards makes some good points about the medical device industry but (IMHO) misses the mark when trying to use PC standards and PHRs as models for working towards a solution. I’ll get … Continue reading →

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Is Google a Monopoly? Just ask Stack Overflow (and me).

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Bob

Today’s New York Times Digital Domain: Everyone Loves Google, Unitl It’s Too Big quotes Jeff Atwood, probably based on this post: The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture. It’s interesting that they picked Stack Overflow as an example because even … Continue reading →

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Exploring Cloud Computing Development

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Bob

It’s not easy getting your arms around this one. The term Cloud Computing has become a catch-all for a number of related technologies that have been used in enterprise-class systems for many years (e.g. grid computing, SOA, virtualization, etc.). One … Continue reading →

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Dreaming of Flexible, Simple, Sloppy, Tolerant in Healthcare IT

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Bob

I was recently browsing in the computer (nerd) section of the bookstore and ran across an old Joel Spolsky edited book: The Best Software Writing I.  Even though it’s been about four years, good writing is good writing, and there … Continue reading →

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Interoperability: Google Protocol Buffers vs. XML

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Bob

Google recently open sourced Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format (documentation, code download). What are Protocol Buffers? Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. The documentation is … Continue reading →

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Goosh, a Google Command Line

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Bob

For us old Unix hackers, Goosh, a Google Command Line is very cool. Check in out here: Goosh.org.

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Google Health Launches: More PHR for the masses.

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Bob

It’s finally here: Drumroll, Please: Google Health Launches! If you use any of the Google applications (like Gmail), it’s just as easy as all the others: It will be interesting to see if this and HealthVault have an impact on … Continue reading →

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