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Write-back... APIs?...

https://blogs.ohsu.edu/health-data/2021/12/21/department-faculty-and-research-highlighted-in-recent-report-from-onc-workshop-on-write-back-apis/?fbclid=IwAR1xR1e16qEoIMlHzTdWz11hc0sQ6XCBXVZNV2lk05FZy5WnP-fAXx5Z8SM

Department Faculty and Research Highlighted in Recent Report From ONC Workshop on Write-Back APIs | Health Data, Information and Action Department Faculty and Research Highlighted in Recent Report From ONC Workshop on Write-Back APIs Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) faculty Ben Orwoll, MD, MS, along with research led by himself and faculty Karen Eden, PhD, were highlighted in a report from a recent a...

Pretty much.. expected?...

Oracle acquires Cerner for $28.3B The database giant says it plans to expand the company's global footprint as it invests big in healthcare – the "largest and most important vertical market in the world."

Btw tracking mobile phones in the COVID-19 outbreak context https://www.google.com/search?q=italy+mobile+phones+covid

https://fpf.org/2020/03/25/a-closer-look-at-location-data-privacy-and-pandemics/

italy mobile phones covid - Google Search

About EHRs, scalability and epidemics..

Coronavirus pandemic puts focus on strengths, weaknesses of EHRs "EHR disaster preparedness testing in the future will need to be able to simulate large volumes of patients over long periods of time," says one nursing informatics consultant.

OK, they say this:

Digital thermometer data may provide insight into COVID-19 surges Uploaded temperature readings from a million Kinsa Health devices are enabling the company to map atypical fevers, offering a potential warning of increases in virus infections.

So the short answer to the question, “What’s Wrong with Relational Databases?” on page 1 is “Nothing.”
https://www.datastax.com/sites/default/files/content/ebook/2020-03/cassandra_ER.pdf
https://www.quora.com/Whats-wrong-with-relational-databases

https://www.isaca.org/why-isaca/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2020/three-isaca-credentials-rank-among-10-highest-paying-tech-certifications

″Fix it, close it or sell it,”

Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of GE, dies at 84 Fortune magazine once called him "manager of the century," but he also was known as "Neutron Jack" for slashing tens of thousands of jobs.

https://onezero.medium.com/how-google-got-its-employees-to-eat-their-vegetables-a2206820d90d

>> The traditional public health campaigns, which specialize in telling people what they should do, routinely fail to alter behavior.

>> Think of it as an American version of a blue zone

>> [A] company’s grand experiment ...

>> Bakker decided to conduct a simple but radical experiment. He moved the snacks farther from the coffee machine.

>> You could screw up the vegetables and no one cared, probably because nobody ate them because they were cooked so badly

>> The vegetables actually have to taste good. Because what motivates people to engage and stick with virtuous patterns of behavior has less to do with all the logical reasons they should and more to do with how much the person enjoys doing that virtuous thing — whether that’s going to the gym or eating their vegetables.

>> [...] put it bluntly, food studies suck

>> Google’s strategy, in contrast, is simple, subtle, and replicable.
Well, I have some doubt about replicable, but yeah, maybe...

>> sophisticated workforce.
Sophisticated? Mah, it depends...

How Google Got Its Employees to Eat Their Vegetables The tech giant is engineering a way to encourage its employees to eat healthier — and it might just help the rest of the country

About AI in medicine - the hope, the hype and so on - more or less the same news, from different sources: the distance between the hope /hype and the reality is not going to get much closer anytime soon...
- https://khn.org/news/a-reality-check-on-artificial-intelligence-are-health-care-claims-overblown/
- https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-03/artificial-intelligence-healthcare
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2734581 (paid article)
-https://nam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/AI-in-Health-Care-PREPUB-FINAL.pdf

A Reality Check On Artificial Intelligence: Are Health Care Claims Overblown? As happens when the tech industry gets involved, hype surrounds the claims that artificial intelligence will help patients and even replace some doctors.

https://www.digitalhealth.net/2019/12/matt-hancock-announces-new-programme-to-help-nhs-trusts-go-digital/
"Documents revealed plans for a “single, standardised, event-based, longitudinal patient record” pulled together from GPs, hospitals, mental health professionals, demographics registers, prescription records as well as information from the private health sector, with the aim of improving improve outcomes for clinical trials, drug discovery and medical technology."

Matt Hancock announces new programme to help NHS trusts go digital Speaking at the Policy Exchange Hancock assured the newly elected Government would “double down on the tech agenda and bring the NHS into the 21st Century”.