Capers, thoughts, bloopers, of a maveric

The EHR Incentive Program, commonly known as Meaningful Use (MU), is a term used to define minimum U.S. government standards for electronic health records (EHR), outlining how clinical patient data should be exchanged between healthcare providers, between providers and insurers and between providers and patients.  Meaningful use (MU) required using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to: Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities. Engage patients and family. Improve care coordination. Improve population and public health. Maintain privacy and security of patient health information. STAGES OF MEANINGFUL USE REQUIREMENTS THAT CAN BE DERIVED OUT OF THE STAGES OF MU he requirements that could be derived out of the stages can be classified into High-level buckets as depicted in the above picture. MU Stage 1 could be described as the basic elements or the building blocks of EHR's MU Stage 2 could be described as the inc

The past few months have been dominated by a barrage of terms mostly originating from economics, here is an honest attempt to try and bring in some sense (mostly my-understanding) into the terms. It is a collation of different search strings and it is a collection effort from my side :) I will try and update this page every time I hear or read of a new term... so please keep checking here :) Gross Domestic Product GDP: The GDP is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period. As a broad measure of overall domestic production, it functions as a comprehensive scorecard of the country’s economic health. When GDP increases, it’s a sign the economy is strong. Consumer Price Index (Inflation): reflects the increased cost of living, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transport

Message Oriented Middleware  A peek into the middle of the enterprise software architecture stack. I recently had the opportunity to present a technical seminar on "Message Oriented Middleware" at the APS College of Engineering. It was a seminar as well as a technical hands-on session. The entire session went well and I was pleased to note the engagement levels of the students was on the High-side. As part of this post please find included some highlights of the topics that we discussed. Please feel free to go through and leave your valuable comments. I am especially interested in getting to know about other alternatives and newer stuff that folks use at real-time and near-real-time in organizations. Middleware is a link between two or more objects like: Different parts of the application Different local applications Different distributed applications Middleware comprises of computer software that provides services to software applications b

The past week has seen the unfurling of the debate between the NRAI  and Zomato  over the deals and benefits of Zomato Gold. The debate has reached such a crescendo that the #logout campaign has started. There are certain pro's of the business models and where there are pro's there are bound to be cons of the business model. And No this post is not about what is happening..... As my interest's lie in Productizing and Business cases, There are two sides to this story and here are a few interesting perspectives: Zomato gold is open to anyone who has the app installed. Zomato gold comes at a extra-premium to the app user; of say Rs 400 - Rs 1800 based on the location you are at.  I am not sure as to how much a hotel has to pay Zomato for being on the gold list, this is what I have got off the web "Restaurants also enjoy additional visibility across the Zomato Platform with the Gold tag and Gold filter" The Zomato enterprise in all their wisdom, have pivot

As part and parcel of my professional life, I have come across numerous instances wherein the Higher-up's have gone to varying length's of extremes asking me to come up with "Estimates", Yes Accurate and Precise estimates. And when asking for the same, there have been very-many instances where-in the Grey's in the "To-Be-Requirement-List" have outnumbered the whites 1:1000. Yet the demand has always been the same "Give me the estimates". In some places I've had the luxury of time, In some places I haven't had any. The story does not end after estimates are given, after a period of time has elapsed, folks from the Quality Assurance team, the Quality Systems team, come knocking, this time for metrics. Along my journey through all of this, I have gone ahead and picked up some tricks-of-the-trade, that I would like to share with you, so that the estimations that I give out end up being as Accurate(closeness to the t

Pic courtesy Anna Bradley's books I have been a LinkedIn faithful from the time it started out in India. I still remember; in the good ol' days we had to wait for someone to send us a invite to gain an entry into Linkedin. I have had the experience of experiencing most of the avatar's that Linkedin has gone through. There is a nice link here that documents the timeline: A Brief History of Linkedin Now that I've been using Linkedin for so long as a user, A few weeks ago I thought, hey let me put on the hat of a "Intelligent Product User" or let me say a "Product Manager", what would I like to see More of as part of Linkedin features and what would I like to see Less of as part of what I see everyday while going through the site. I would call this "personalization" and if in case that is already available as part of being a Linkedin Premium Member, then feel free to skip this post. And no this is not a rant ! If some aspects of t

A basic introduction to Markdown Being an old school fella, in most of my dealing with code-versioning systems(Clearcase, SVN and  CVS),  I used to keep references of what each folder did by thinking  of good-old names of what each folder and file within did. Sometimes  in order for me to take care of boiler-plates or other known issues or  improvements, I would go ahead and maintain a README.txt. Starting a few months ago, my interactions with git and git based code started increasing a lot, and over there I started looking at  README's with an extension of .md, this piqued my interest a few  weeks ago and I started reading up more on this and this blogpost is  the culmination of what I've understood md an introduction md stands for markdown which is a lightweight markup language that contains formatting all done via plain text. And when hosted in git, appears  in a convienient html format which is easy to read. (I now understand how the details of the