Healthcare Standards

If you've been sitting under a rock, you missed the latest big explosion in the FHIR World, Alissa Knight's most recent report: Playing with FHIR: Hacking and Securing FHIR APIs.  I've downloaded it, and looked at the fantastic graphics (e.g., image...

Since my initial foray into developing my own little IoT device that will be controlled by my headset that started in On Air: Part 1, I've managed to accomplish three things:
Discovered that the battery drain from the light is too much for as often as I'm on a headset so that batteries would bankrupt me (three batteries lasted two days).  Fortunately, there's a USB C power adapter for this fixture....

My home office has a wide open arch entry way right off the main hallway between the living room and kitchen, and is also the route from kitchen to the upstairs master bathroom which all the people in my house prefer to use for their showers.  My family...

Variation is the bane of standards.  Eliminating needless variation is part of my job.  Doing it in a way that doesn't increase provider (or developer) burden is an indication that it's been done right.
I've looked at a lot of state and national dashboards while working on the SANER Project, and one thing I notice is the variation in reporting for data with respect to race and ethnicity classifications (strata).  Often, when reported on publicly, these...