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…
I have talked many times before about the privacy concerns that I have about Europe’s and Germany’s approach to protecting privacy: on the one side citizens have – at least theoretically – a very strong position viz-a-viz non-governmental actors when…
Since recently, I am involved in selecting technologies (not vendors, mind you!) for distributed systems. While highly interesting, I am now faced with the age-old issue of interoperability and claimed adherence to standards. We all know the games companies 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…
The time has come to start working on comprehensive identity convergence … with Venngeance:
What happens when a bureaucracy goes wild? Well, you can end up in a situation where private companies are facing the most restrictive privacy regime in the world, while government agencies are at liberty to spy on their people at…
For a number of reasons, I got myself an HP mini 1010nr with the 8GB SSD drive. It’s a nice little machine (and cheap: US$ 220), especially if you configure it with 2GB RAM and use the little “hidden” USB…
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…