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BlogsTags > itWeekly Highlights and Insights: May 6-10By Adam FlahertyMay 10, 2013 Fit2Cure: Andy Oram introduces a game that crowdsources the search for drugs to cure under-researched diseases of developing countries. Unit testing core data: James Turner shows iOS developers a less painful way to set up an OCUnit project to test … Upward Mobility: Unit Testing Core DataBy James TurnerMay 6, 2013 One of the more common issues that arises in creating OCUnit tests in iOS is how to test code that uses Core Data. There are several challenges, but with a little foresight, you can be sailing right along. The first … A very serious game that can cure the orphan diseasesBy Andy OramMay 2, 2013 In the inspiring tradition of Foldit, the game for determining protein shapes, Fit2Cure crowdsources the problem of finding drugs that can cure the many under-researched diseases of developing countries. Fit2Cure appeals to the player’s visual–even physical–sense of the world, and … Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 2)By Andy OramApril 29, 2013 Editor’s note: Earlier this week, Part 1 of this article described Sage Bionetworks, a recent Congress they held, and their way of promoting data sharing through a challenge. Data sharing is not an unfamiliar practice in genetics. Plenty of cell … Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 1)By Andy OramApril 29, 2013 The glowing reports we read of biotech advances almost cause one’s brain to ache. They leave us thinking that medical researchers must command the latest in all technological tools. But the engines of genetic and pharmaceutical innovation are stuttering for … Broadening consults and narrowing queries: HealthTap’s social networkBy Andy OramMarch 21, 2013 Noting the power of social media in situations ranging from the marketing of sneakers to the overthrow of autocratic regimes, many health care thinkers have suggested a greater use of social media by doctors and people seeking information on health … Commerce Weekly: Intuit Pay heats up U.K. mobile payments marketBy Jenn WebbMarch 14, 2013 Intuit Pay enters U.K., PayPal Here takes on Square Register On the heels of PayPal announcing it would bring PayPal Here to the U.K. later this year, Intuit launched its Intuit Pay mobile payments solution in the U.K. market. The … Commerce Weekly: Intuit Pay heats up U.K. mobile payments marketBy Jenn WebbMarch 14, 2013 Intuit Pay enters U.K., PayPal Here takes on Square Register On the heels of PayPal announcing it would bring PayPal Here to the U.K. later this year, Intuit launched its Intuit Pay mobile payments solution in the U.K. market. The … Saint James Infirmary: checking the pulse of health IT at HIMSSBy Andy OramMarch 11, 2013 I spent most of the past week on my annual assessment of the progress that the field of health information technology is making toward culling the benefits offered by computers and Internet connectivity: instant access to data anywhere; a leveling … Commerce Weekly: Google may be prepping an Amazon Prime competitorBy Jenn WebbMarch 7, 2013 Is Google gearing up to battle Amazon head-on? The Google e-commerce rumor mill continued churning this week. Alexia Tsotsis reported at TechCrunch that Google is “stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called ‘Google Shopping Express.’” Her sources indicated … Commerce Weekly: Google may be prepping an Amazon Prime competitorBy Jenn WebbMarch 7, 2013 Is Google gearing up to battle Amazon head-on? The Google e-commerce rumor mill continued churning this week. Alexia Tsotsis reported at TechCrunch that Google is “stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called ‘Google Shopping Express.’” Her sources indicated … Slow & Steady: looking toward a better health IT future at HIMSSBy Andy OramMarch 6, 2013 After my funereal disparagement yesterday of the opening of the HIMSS health care conference in New Orleans, I decided to pick up the beat today and talk about some of the people and ideas I encountered with promise for the … Singin’ the Blues: visions deferred at HIMSS health IT conferenceBy Andy OramMarch 5, 2013 HIMSS, the leading health IT conference in the US, drew over 32,000 people to New Orleans this year (with another thousand or two expected to register by the end of the conference). High as this turn-out sounds, it represents a … Harvard Medical School derives richer health research through patient appBy Andy OramFebruary 26, 2013 In a mobile, texting, socially engaged society, one would expect medical researchers to move beyond clipboards and phone surveys to make the most of technology. Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital are starting to do that with a series … Android offers a standard platform for health care appsBy Andy OramFebruary 25, 2013 Video systems can streamline hospital care in all sorts of ways from displaying messages (“Quiet time is 1 to 2 PM today”) to taking patient surveys, showing patients their X-Rays, and helping patients view their records from their beds. But … VA looks to apply innovation to better care and service for veteransBy Alex HowardFebruary 21, 2013 There are few areas as emblematic of a nation’s values than how it treats the veterans of its wars. As improved battlefield care keeps more soldiers alive from injuries that would have been lethal in past wars, more grievously injured … Bringing the knowledge of best practices to the doctor’s point of careBy Andy OramFebruary 11, 2013 Impatience is said to be the stance of modern technology users, but a doctor sitting with a patient has good reason to be impatient. The afflicted person may be suffering from a condition where lost minutes could mean death, an … Four short links: 11 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 11, 2013 How Virtual Fences Will Transform Rural America (The Atlantic) — When it comes to managing animals, every conventional fence that I have ever built has been in the wrong place the next year. Stately — a font of states which … Get the best start for data in your businessBy Edd DumbillFebruary 6, 2013 In a world where technology and business are evermore intertwined, IT leaders aspire to key roles in their organizations. Sadly, industry conferences can lag behind, assuming IT is all about making the right buying decisions. Not so at Strata. Our … Commerce Weekly: Goodbye traditional retail, hello ecommerceBy Jenn WebbJanuary 31, 2013 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Death bells toll for brick-and-mortar retail A recent report from mobile analytics startup Flurry looked at the growth in consumer use of shopping apps and … Commerce Weekly: Goodbye traditional retail, hello ecommerceBy Jenn WebbJanuary 31, 2013 Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the commerce space this week. Death bells toll for brick-and-mortar retail A recent report from mobile analytics startup Flurry looked at the growth in consumer use of shopping apps and … Speaking as a publishing recruiter and authorBy Michael FoyJanuary 23, 2013 Mining dollars from the digital age. It’s what every publisher is concerned with lately. In my day job as recruiter, as I like to say, I’ve clinically observed publishers struggling with the new realities. By night, as I assume my … Forking the bookBy Adam HydeJanuary 22, 2013 As one of the first mass produced industrial artifacts the book remains a solid cultural signifier of stability. That aura is pretty strong and attractive and makes it pretty hard to think about books as being anything other than static … Four short links: 16 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 16, 2013 Things Users Don’t Care About (Pete Warden) — every day we relearn these lessons. How great it will be once all their friends are on it. Tracer FIRE 5 — online workshop and game that teaches network security. [A] week-long … Heading towards marketing first, publishing laterBy Kristen McLeanJanuary 9, 2013 In yesterday’s article I gave you a tantalizing introduction to what I consider the new paradigm for DIY book marketing–a kind of cart-before-the-horse strategy where you market yourself first, and then publish later. Here’s what I think it could look like for any … 14 big trends to watch in 2013By Alex HowardDecember 22, 2012 2012 was a remarkable year for technology, government and society. In our 2012 year in review, we looked back at 10 trends that mattered. Below, we look ahead to the big ideas and technologies that will change the world, again. … New school CBy Nathan JepsonDecember 21, 2012 Choosing a programming language for that project you’re working on is a fairly straightforward decision: it needs to be fast, easy to use, and it must come with enough bells and whistles to keep you from re-inventing the wheel every … Publishing News: Penguin settles, Macmillan holds its groundBy Jenn WebbDecember 21, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. And then there were two In headline news this week, the Penguin Group announced it had reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice. … Open source developers combine efforts in the health care fieldBy Andy OramDecember 13, 2012 I had a chance to listen in a recent meeting of Open Health Tools, a trade association bringing together companies, academics, and standards bodies who create open source software tools for all stages of the health care field. Open Health … Strata Week: The Open Data Institute aims to mine the gold in open government dataBy Jenn WebbDecember 7, 2012 Here are a few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week. Open government data gets a startup incubator The Open Data Institute (ODI), founded by Tim Berners-Lee and artificial intelligence pioneer Nigel Shadbolt, officially launched this … WYSIWYG vs WYSIBy Adam HydeDecember 3, 2012 Since HTML is the new paper and the new path to paper online editing environments are becoming much more important for publishing. Dominant until now has been the WYSIWYG editor we all know and…err…love? However the current WYSIWYG paradigm has … Math typesettingBy Adam HydeNovember 26, 2012 Typesetting math in HTML was for a long time one of those ‘I can’t believe that hasn’t been solved by now!’ issues. It seemed a bit wrong – wasn’t the Internet more or less invented by math geeks? Did they give … Will online learning destroy America’s colleges?By Jon BrunerNovember 20, 2012 The American college system is staggeringly large: 2,421 four-year institutions enroll about 18.5 million college students. The proportion of Americans with a bachelor’s degree is at an all-time high — a social victory if they’re able to enjoy a positive … Author (R)evolution Day, the Manifesto (Part II)By Kristen McLeanNovember 19, 2012 I’m Kristen McLean, the founder & CEO of Bookigee, and I’m also the co-chair of TOC’s first conference event designed especially for professional authors and content creators. This is the second in a two-part essay that lays out the framework for our new … Four short links: 19 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 19, 2012 Wing Man — Mac app for source control management with git, implements workflow rather than simply being a wrapper for git commandlines. CodeKit — Mac app for web developers, automates (invisibly, thanks to watching filesystem changes) much of the web … DocGraph: Open social doctor dataBy Fred TrotterNovember 18, 2012 At Strata RX in October I announced the availability of DocGraph. This is the first project of NotOnly Development, which is a Not Only For Profit Health IT micro-incubator. The DocGraph dataset shows how doctors, hospitals, laboratories and other health … Gutenberg RegionsBy Adam HydeNovember 6, 2012 The “best price” phase of TOC NY 2013 registration is about to end. Don’t wait or you’ll end up paying more than you would today. To save even more on your registration, sign up here and use the discount code … Driven to distraction: how Veterans Affairs uses monitoring technology to help returning veterans adjust to normal day to day livingBy Andy OramNovember 5, 2012 Veterans Affairs is collaborating with Fujitsu on a complex and interesting use of sensor data to help rehabilitate veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I recently talked about this initiative with Dr. Steven Woodward, Principal Investigator of the … Doctors rate doctors in HealthTap’s medical quality projectBy Andy OramNovember 1, 2012 HealthTap, a network of physicians and patients, routinely breaks new ground and tries bold experiments in the area of generating trust. I remember how, in my first posting about the company, I questioned whether the company could sign up both … How to open an industry: data points from Strata RxBy Andy OramOctober 19, 2012 O’Reilly’s first conference devoted to health care, Strata Rx, wrapped up earlier this week. Despite competing with at least three other conferences being held on the same week around the country on various aspects of health care and technology, we … The new New TypographyBy Adam HydeOctober 18, 2012 In the 1920s and 1930s in Europe there was a movement known as the New Typography. It was a movement that rejected traditional type set in symmetrical columns and instead treated the printers block as a blank canvas to be … Three questions for…Richard Lang of DemocrasoftBy Joe WikertOctober 17, 2012 1. Democrasoft offers a WeJIT platform. What exactly is a WeJIT? A WeJIT is a “portable” collaboration unit. It is a self-contained collaborative discussion about a singular topic, which lives on a one-page website dedicated to that discussion topic (the … Publishing News: Judge rules fair use in Authors Guild v. HathiTrustBy Jenn WebbOctober 12, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. HathiTrust book scanning ruled fair use Last week, Google reached a settlement agreement with McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Penguin, John Wiley & Sons, and Simon & … Sensor-laden glove brings medical examination to the massesBy Andy OramOctober 11, 2012 Recently a group of three young entrepreneurs showed off a prototype of a glove that contained sensors useful for medical examinations. Their goals were not merely to make diagnosis easier, but to save the doctor/patient relationship from the alienation of … Privacy concerns and regulatory challenges in personalized medicineBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 Ann Waldo, a partner in Wittie, Letsche & Waldo, LLP in Washington, DC, presents a summary of her work in the webcast “Overview of Privacy Concerns and Regulatory Challenges Concerning Personalized Medicine — and Some Modest Suggestions for Change.” This … Advanced analytics for all in the health care systemBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 Arijit Sengupta presents a summary of his work as the CEO of BeyondCore in the presentation “Advanced Analytics for All: Enabling business users to act on length of stay patterns at a leading hospital system.” This presentation was part of … Discovering genetic associations using large dataBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 David Heckerman from Microsoft Research presents a summary of his work in the session “Discovering Genetic Associations on Large Data.” This was part of the Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized Medicine, a preview of O’Reilly’s conference Strata Rx, highlighting the … Combining patient data sets for better medical researchBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 I find Datalanche’s upcoming search application interesting because its database mixes public health data with patients’ clinical data from a private vendor. Practice Fusion opened up their data set of de-identified clinical information for a challenge that Datalanche won last … Open source software as a model for health careBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 (The following article sprang from a collaboration between Andy Oram and Brigitte Piniewski to cover open source concepts in an upcoming book on health care. This book, titled “Wireless Health: Remaking of Medicine by Pervasive Technologies,” is edited by Professor … Challenge to Meaningful Use by House leaders highlights difficulty of asking incumbents to be innovatorsBy Andy OramOctober 8, 2012 Four leading members of the House Ways and Means Committee tore away last Thursday at the polite, cautious, incremental approach that the Department of Health and Human Service has been taking toward key goals of HITECH act that was meant … 1 to 50 of 442 Next Stay Connected
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