While I am nominally a member of my town’s “Information Systems Advisory Committee” (ISAC) for more than 2 years, only recently we have been meeting more frequently. There is a dire need in the town to modernize the IT systems…
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I started today a migration from my ancient dasBlog blog to WordPress. This was overdue, but work and personal life did nate make this easy. Right now I am halfway done, and things are starting to appear at this site,…
If (and that’s a big IF, I know) you know someone who is looking for a job in Identity Management, we have a job opening at MITRE right now: Goto http://tinyurl.com/ku3ax and search for req ID: 17068BR Job Title: Identity…
The recent weeks have seen some rather amazing – and frightening – changes in the relationship between civil society, the internet, and governmental institutions. While many people ignored the indiscriminate release of tactical reports from the conflicts in Afghanistan and…
Sorry, but I cannot resist putting our hData infomercial up here: (Note: my sinuses were completely clogged, so I had to take some pseudo-ephedrine… guess it shows)
Here is a couple of questions I’d love to put out – if you have the time, please let me know since I am genuinely curious: Who has implemented a successfully chained service, with some propagation of identity? If you…
Who does not know and dread the recurring discussion of a topic long thought dead? The most egregious one lately was a discussion about the applicability of RFC 2119 to a particular standard I was working on (to protect the…
Today, we released the hData technical specifications: hData Record Format and hData Packaging and Network Transport. This is the mail that went out to the mailing lists: Today we are releasing the first public version of the hData specification for…
Our effort to improve electronic health data exchange is starting to pick up some steam: After a very successful rounds of discussions at the HL7 General Plenary in Atlanta in late September (kudos to Andy Gregorowicz for covering this one)…
My town (Burlington, MA) has just revived the Information Systems Advisory Committee (ISAC) to assist in the alignment of the school system’s and the administration’s IT departments. With many high-technology companies in town, the administration has been at the forefront…