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VISTA Expertise Weblog: May 2011
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VISTA Planning and Management Part 1: Complexity. Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Thursday, May 26, 2011. VISTA Planning and Management Part 1: Complexity. Complexity: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco. There are two answers. Second, healthcare is staggeringly complex, and VISTA's purpose is to help support healthcare, so it too must be complex. There is no way around it. To make VISTA less complex, you must make it less useful, that is, you must sacrifice patient c...We re...
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: December 2011
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Meaningful Use certification at Oroville Hospital. Carol Monahan: Introducing Myself. 2012 VISTA Expo and Symposium, 11-14 September, Wher. 24th VISTA Community Meeting. Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Meaningful Use certification at Oroville Hospital. A local news piece. On our friends at Oroville Hospital, with Dr. Narinder Singh. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Carol Monahan: Introducing Myself. Posted by Carol Monahan. VISTA, as open-source software, can s...
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: October 2014
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Database Elements Problem 2: Version Control of In. Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Friday, October 24, 2014. Database Elements Problem 2: Version Control of Init Routines. For VISTA hardhats, here's the latest post in my series introducing and explaining the OSEHRA Forum project. If the answer so far to the question "What is VISTA made of? Is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the complexities introduced by non-routine software elements, what else makes up this iceberg?
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: August 2012
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A Question of Categories. Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Saturday, August 25, 2012. A Question of Categories. Mount Tahoma: 2.9 million to 840,000 years old. Under the classical definition of life, a mountain is neither alive nor dead, because it is not "organic," by which we actually mean it is not an organism. Organisms are alive while they're alive, and dead when they're not alive. Biology's Archaic Foundational Categories. Water cycles across our tidy boundaries. How are we to re...
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: May 2012
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Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Verstand's illusion about life: make wholes from parts. Begriff thinking is not synthesis to Verstand's analysis. Both forms of thinking are capable of analysis and synthesis, but they do it in different ways that result in different products. Here is where the nature of the two forms of thought becomes clearest. Monsters, not people, are made of parts. Life's true structure: integrated centers. Not a machine, but an ecosystem.
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: March 2012
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Interlude: Why Am I Writing about This? Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Thursday, March 29, 2012. Interlude: Why Am I Writing about This? Seeing through William Blake's eyes. Isn't this "Begriff" and "Verstand" stuff unnecessarily pedantic? Aren't we lost in the weeds from the practical problem of creating great medical software? As a man is, so he sees. Seeing through Frankenstein's eyes. We (the people who understand the software) have been just as bull-headed as they (the people in...
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: September 2012
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The Geometry of Life. Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Saturday, September 1, 2012. The Geometry of Life. Phospholipids: their shape makes organismic life possible. Our goals in doing this are:. A) to replace the self-contradictory and rigid categories underlying the foundations of biology with measurable qualities, that is, to shift from a rational but arbitrary understanding of the world to an empirical one;. Micelles: Phospholipids in water form spheres. Instead of defining life in ...
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: January 2011
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Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Friday, January 21, 2011. Watch this space for regular updates on progress toward that goal. Posted by Rick Marshall. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 169; 2009, Frederick D. S. Marshall. The VISTA Expertise Weblog. Is licensed under the. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: September 2011
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VISTA Planning and Management Part 3: Do the Right. Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Wednesday, September 14, 2011. VISTA Planning and Management Part 3: Do the Right Thing. When you aim for the wrong target, success = failure. Most of the challenge in VISTA management and planning lies not in hitting the target but in choosing the right target. Successfully leading the organization in the wrong direction has been the paramount problem with VISTA development efforts since about 1...
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VISTA Expertise Weblog: August 2014
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VISTA and the Agile Manifesto. Rodney Kay's VISTA Blog. Fred Trotter's VISTA Blog. Thursday, August 21, 2014. VISTA and the Agile Manifesto. VA's early adoption of the Agile methodology (before the term Agile had been coined) led to remarkable accomplishments and extremely high customer loyalty. VISTA hardhat Sam Habiel introduced me to the best resource I've seen on the subject so far. It is called the Agile Manifesto. Http:/ www.agilemanifesto.org. Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Individuals ...
