At Any Event, or at Every Event?

Still on the trail of conceptual clarity around events. In the last post in this - this is the third, so let's say 'series' - we discussed the difference in knowledge and data. I used the familiar-to-most query against a relational database to illustrate the difference. Let's return to that example for a moment. The … Continue reading At Any Event, or at Every Event? →

The Event Re-Renaissance Continued: Knowledge vs. Data

In my last post, we started digging into the re-emergence of complex event processing and event-driven architectures which has been enabled by the latest generation of stateful stream processors such as Spark Streaming, Samza, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, and Google DataFlow. Today let's start to develop a clear line of sight into the underlying conceptual … Continue reading The Event Re-Renaissance Continued: Knowledge vs. Data →

The Event Renaissance is Reborn Event

We are plumbing our event-driven architecture here at Cambia, and, as we were socializing our approach internally, a question came up about how the stateful-streaming-based complex event processor we're rolling out will fit into the overall flow of data. As I struggled to answer it clearly, I realized that the layers of event-related technology that … Continue reading The Event Renaissance is Reborn Event →

A Business-Level Introduction to APIs and Microservices

Health care is largely an information business. Physical treatment – medicine, surgery, therapy, the tools used to deliver it - is the tip of the spear. But it is surrounded by, informed by, enabled by, the flow of information. These days we manage all that information with software: Software is complex: it is expensive to … Continue reading A Business-Level Introduction to APIs and Microservices →

A Brief History of Healthcare Interoperabilty (with some thoughts on the future)

The word 'interoperability' as used the current national healthcare dialog has a nuanced meaning. Interoperability is generally defined as the ability of computer systems to readily exchange information. In health care today, however, Interoperability (capitalized hereafter when I am trying to distinguish it from the general sense of the word) more closely means something like … Continue reading A Brief History of Healthcare Interoperabilty (with some thoughts on the future) →