In an earlier article I talked about data ownership – or lack thereof – at a low, technical level. There are three principal technical actors: the physical custodian, the logical custodian, and the data originator. This article deals with the…
Category: General
Data ownership is a rather nasty topic: at a legal level, we have many rights related to data we create or that is about us: privacy regulations, intellectual property rights, copyrights and trademarks, etc. are all aspects of how society…
For some time I have been working with a number of folks at MITRE on a simple representation for electronic health data. Digging into the depth of various standards organizations such as HL7, HITSP, or HIMSS was interesting, painful, and…
Ok, the under 35s may be digital natives … but if that is so, I am not a digital immigrant, but a “digital colonist“. tags: digital immigrant digital native digital colonist
For this year’s Balisage in Montreal, we (R. Dingwell, A. Gregorowicz, H. Sleeper, and myself) have been accepted as a late-breaking proposal for our work on hData, which addresses some problems that are currently plaguing electronic health records. Our session…
This is a little off-topic: I just got an invite to cast my proxy vote for my Fidelity mutual funds. In addition to the usual crud like blessing the board, there was an initiative to instruct the board not to…
Right now, I am taking a class on Air Traffic Management (ATM), which is already yielding some very concrete useful knowledge: unbeknown to me, the FAA and NOAA have a lot of very interesting tools on the web. These web…
Today should be “International Freedom Day”, against all suppression of individual liberties, everywhere.
This is a happy Friday afternoon rant. I am still following the headlines for Sun (as long as that is still possible), and today I found some interesting headline: “Oracle Should Spin/Sell Sun Hardware Unit, Analyst Says“. Well, interesting enough,…
Ok, fair enough – I give up: now on Twitter: @beuchelt. Big question: what are people using to keep up with Twitter? Right now I got the MicroBlog plugin for Pidgin, but I am not 100% sure if I like…