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Distributed computing comes to smartphones
Your desktop PC might have been looking for aliens for many years, but now you can put your smartphone to use curing cancer while you sleep.
Brislen on Tech
In which we talk healthcare, jogging-based security applications, the lack of vision of New Zealand's financial sector and why HP Lovecraft ended key sentences "all in italics".
Health needs re-engineering from the top down (or bottom up?)
Health IT is often seen as an area of tech that has underperformed versus potential. Health IT consultant Ernie Newman takes a look at the health sector, what went wrong, and what could be done to sort it out.
According to Ernie, the health system is broken in so many ways. It is trapped in a 1980s service delivery model, way too complex for a country with 4.5 million people, underfunded, and riddled with waste. Silos abound. Inefficiency, with wasted opportunity, is endemic. The customer interface to health services hasn't changed for a century.
So why does large scale modernisation elude health services? Here's his considered view.
Gibbons Lectures to focus on health IT
The Gibbons Lectures, run my the Auckland University Computer Science dept in association with IITP, will focus this year on IT and its use in the health sector. Topics include modelling human physiol…
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