Monthly Archives: July 2009

Two links on the topic of medical IT

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jacques Chester

Some of you might know that I’ve harboured a small enthusiasm for aggressively using IT to drive down costs of health care, as well as improving quality, safety and providing data for researchers. In the future it may even be possible to couple these databases to expert systems that provide secondary diagnoses to help doctors [...] Continue reading →

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A thought bubble about service-level agreements.

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Jacques Chester

It is very common in IT to see “Service Level Agreements” specifying a certain amount of uptime. This is usually considered in “nines”: when someone talks about five nines, they’re referring to 99.999% uptime.
Very few services actually attain it, or even come close. All it takes is one bad day and the “downtime budget” for [...] Continue reading →

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Google and News Ltd are in the same business.

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Jacques Chester

A cat named Hartigan has apparently put himself amongst the blogging pigeons. A generous amount of fur and feathers has flown as a result.
For example, Hartigan has defended traditional media reporting and newsroom methods; bloggers say that News Ltd don’t “get it”, or are already giving in, or their content sucks, or some combination of [...] Continue reading →

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