Andy Oram

Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly Media. An employee of the company since 1992, Andy currently specializes in open source technologies and software engineering. His work for O'Reilly includes the first books ever released by a U.S. publisher on Linux, the 2001 title Peer-to-Peer, and the 2007 best-seller Beautiful Code.

Small Massachusetts HIT conference returns to big issues in health care

by  | @praxagora  | +Andy Oram |  6 February 2012

The real reason hospitals haven't joined health information exchanges, and other reports from the Massachusetts Heath Data Consortium's annual conference.

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A discussion with David Farber: bandwidth, cyber security, and the obsolescence of the Internet

by  | @praxagora  | +Andy Oram | 30 January 2012

David Farber offers his big ideas about where the Internet is headed: how long it can last, slaying the bandwidth bottleneck, and waiting for the big breach.

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Massachusetts Open Checkbook: running through the ledger of choices and challenges in open government

by  | @praxagora  | +Andy Oram | 20 January 2012

A tour of the new Massachusetts spending site, accolades and critiques from leading open government advocates, and an examination of it takes to produce data you can query for useful information.

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Medical imaging in the cloud: a conversation about eMix

by  | @praxagora  | +Andy Oram | 16 January 2012

It's a situation crying out for networked transfer, but HIPAA requires careful attention to security and privacy.

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What would you like policy-makers to know about computing? Brian Kernighan's solution

by  | @praxagora  | +Andy Oram | 29 December 2011

Brian W. Kernighan has been working for years to see that policy-makers knos a thing or two about the Internet, and now he has written a book called D is for Digital: What a well-informed person ought to know about computers and and communications.

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HealthTap's growth validates hypotheses about doctors and patients

by  | @praxagora  | +Andy Oram | 10 December 2011

HealthTap has revealed two interesting and perhaps unexpected traits about doctors: they will take the time to post information online for free, and they are willing to rate each other.

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