June 2009
6 posts
Server Fault →
interesting sys admin site, lots of questions and answers … will need to explore some more
who owns health data
This is an interesting post by Tim O’Reilly pointing out one of the disconnects with data in the health care system: who actually owns the data? The patient? Most health care systems would probably argue against that, but as we want to move to a system of personalized medicine it will be difficult to argue that the patient should not own their own data and be able to decide which providers...
odesi
I need to check this out some more when I have time, it looks interesting … it is supposed to be a web based data discovery tool developed in Ontario, shades of old consulting projects (accessing databases fro Canadian Opinion Research Archives, Stats Can, etc)
ODESI - Home
An interesting summary of real world experience with the amazon cloud computing environment … interesting take away that the cloud is more expensive than actual servers, but I wonder if that is before or after infrastructure costs are factored in - or just what the math is behind that statement
Real-world cloud computing
this could be useful
javascript toolkit for visualizations
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit - Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web
What a Texas town can teach us about health care.
This is an excellent article from the New Yorker on the reason why health care is so expensive in the US. It takes a good look at why one of the poorer counties in the country has an average medicare expenditure that double the national average and 25% more than the income per capita in the county. And it is not because they have better equipment (they don’t), or newer hospitals (they...