John Shagoury, president of Nuance Healthcare, says While the HIT Policy Committee has recognized "electronically capturing data" as part of the "Meaningful Use Of EMR" criteria, the rich nature of the physician narrative needs to be specifically identified. In order to ensure that patients' medical records do not suffer in quality, and that caregiver communication via shared notes does not lack necessary detail, electronic health records (EHR) must not be reduced to point-and-click templates alone (Structured Data). The physician Narrative should be accounted for and measured as part of quality care tracking.

The VA and DOD have spent over $1 billion dollars and began their EHR project over a decade ago. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic giants are far from reaching full EHR interoperability (InterOp) by their mandated live date of September 2009.

Dan Davies: last chapters and how to avoid them. “Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better” by Jennifer Pahlka. Strong positive recommend. (more)

Electronic Medical Record (more)

geek, systems thinker https://www.kalzumeus.com/ (more)

hypertext junkie (more)

Screens, Research, and Hypertext, an online hypertext-ebook/wiki-ebook by Joe Miller, published 2022. https://screensresearchhypertext.com/ (more)

Steven Johnson: Introducing NotebookLM. About five months ago, I shared the news that I was collaborating with Google on a new AI-based tool for thought, then code-named Project Tailwind. (more)

EleanorKonik: On Testing Hypotheses Instead of Setting Goals. I picked up Tiny Experiments on a whim. Yes, that’s an affiliate link, yes I hope you buy the book, the whole point of this essay is going to be “this is genuinely the best self-help—sorry, Personal Success in Business—book I’ve ever read.” (personal development, goal-setting) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #109: Google Fails Marketing Forever. What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed? Google seems to have pulled that off this week with Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t. Not so fast, and not quite my job. But OpenAI is trying. Consider this a marker to look back upon in the future, as a reflection. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #108: Straight Line on a Graph. *The x-axis of the graph is time. The y-axis of the graph is the log of ‘how long a software engineering task can AIs reliably succeed at doing.’ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #20: Code Interpreter and Claude 2.0 for Everyone. There is no shortage of people willing to talk about every week as a huge week in AI with tons of amazing new releases and announcements. At first this was usually right, then it mostly stopped being right. This week we had Code Interpreter and Claude 2.0 and x.AI (whatever that actually is) and a bunch of other stuff, while I was still processing OpenAI’s huge announcement of their Superalignment Taskforce. As usual, when there’s lots of great stuff that makes it that much harder to actually find time to play around with it. Things are good and also can be overwhelming. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The One Mistake Rule. If a model gives a definitely wrong answer anywhere, it is useless everywhere. (more)

Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby failing to ensure that the sample obtained is representative of the population intended to be analyzed.[1] It is sometimes referred to as the selection effect. The phrase "selection bias" most often refers to the distortion of a statistical analysis, resulting from the method of collecting samples. If the selection bias is not taken into account, then some conclusions of the study may be false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

see Balaji Srinivasan

Python Web Framework I used for Flask for Wiki Engine (more)

aka Patrick McKenzie

William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960)[1] is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College[2] and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change, and Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019), about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben

A review of Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work ISBN:1594202230 - Robert Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, Richard Sennett, The Craft, SmallWorld, etc. Crawford's book arrives just as a vague sense of dissatisfaction with the demands and rewards of the modern economy (New Economy) is coalescing into something like a Movement. (more)