This is a little break away from the normal healthcare blogs but it’s related as these supercomputers are in healthcare. DOE even rents space 
out for other agencies and I wrote about that a while back. Too bad our Congress has not figured out that they too could maybe ask the DOE for some super computing space to figure out their data needs when making laws:) Looks like we booted China out of the #1 spot, at least for now.
1.7 Billion Super Computer Hours Awarded by the DOE–Biomedical Research Projects Included for Parkinson’s and Cancer
I have mentioned it a few times around here how Congress would benefit and get smarter and bonus points as with intelligence grows, the lobbyists efforts will drop a bit as our lawmakers could tell the difference a little better between marketing information an actual data.
Use of IBMWatson Technology in Congress Would Allow For Smarter Laws and Decision Processes With Bonus Points For Lowering Over All Impact of Lobbyists
This is kind of an important computer too as it is used the understanding of weapons science as well as vastly improved estimates of uncertainty in predictions of weapons behavior, the nuke-puter that simulates and crunches numbers as a pace surpassing all others. It has 1.6 petabytes of memory 96 racks and 1.6 million cores…that last number kind of blows me away and this is IBM engineering at work. BD
The twice-a-year list of the Top 500 supercomputers documents the most powerful systems on the planet. Many of these supercomputers are striking not just for their processing power, but for their design and appearance as well. Here’s a look at the top finishers in the latest Top 500 list, which was released Monday, June 18 was announced at the 2011 convention.
The new Top 500 champion is Sequoia, a Blue Gene/Q 
supercomputer built on IBM Power architecture at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The emergence of Sequoia has returned the U.S. to the top spot of the Top500 list for the first time since November 2009. Sequoia consists of 96 racks; 98,304 compute nodes, 1.6 million cores and 1.6 petabytes of memory, and hit an impressive new record of 16.32 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. The National Nuclear Security Administration uses Sequoia to research the safety, security and reliability of the United States’ nuclear deterrent – replacing the need for underground testing. The Blue Gene/Q Sequoia is eight times more powerful than its predecessor BlueGene/L technology.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/top-10-supercomputers-illustrated-june-2012/
of this blog. I was one of the very first adopters of a tablet computer and I think that goes back to around 2001. It’s been a long time and I currently have an Acer Windows Tablet. The only thing that it lacks is enough battery life to make me happy but you can’t have everything. I still have this particular tablet as well from Tablet Kiosk and you see it regularly on CSI New York, except they use a black one. 
around HMMS with my tablet and One Note and in those days one was considered a “goober” if you had it in tote as most vendors only showed and used them in the booths:) Today all that has changed but the article below is still very applicable on using One Note as “intelligence files” and really work a convention and get everything covered that you set out to do. I did it and had everything I needed and One Note did the queries for my information both before and at the show. I talked and wrote my notes in One Note. Everyone kept coming up and asking me what booth others were in as I had that too":) Just think this is only 4 years later and how far we have come with tablets. You can see a sample image as to how my rough files looked before I began with all the notes I took. 
and I remember the one night back in Santa Monica at our meeting at Microsoft where we all got to see one of the first tablets previewed even before they were released and a special employee from Microsoft arrived to give us the unannounced prior presentation. I just wrote to a Microsoft Tablet MVP who made a video of it to see if he could dig it out for nostalgia purposes:) The video quality is not what we have today but seeing this from 2001 would be fun to look back at. I’ve mobile before it was cool to be mobile and Pocket PCs were not phones yet:) 
tablet to enter data in his medical records program in 2007. At any rate I hope before too long that I am able to get my hands on one of the Surface units and really check it out. Little humor, this is far cry from a Mike Arrington Crunch Pad for those that remember:) It’s been a while so time for a little friendly reminder of the project. For your absolute utter enjoyment here’s a picture of a couple of tablets running my antiquated VB6 medical records system, although it was hot at the time and your screens could be any color you wanted:) If that picture did anything for you, there’s more at this link of some screenshots of the antiquated coder/blogger at work. Boy the formatting was tough to get right for the little tablet. 
work horse and of course I will be interested to see what battery life is like as for years it seem as if you want more power you get less battery and even the IPAD with it’s wonderful engineering only does one program at a time and that’s how the battery can last so long. They really did a good job on that design, however let’s see what Surface can do and for sure it stands to be a huge tool for the enterprise and healthcare world with medical records. Tablets have come such a long way since that first little Acer I had years ago. BD 
kit to fix it so it won’t blow up on you. Over 300 tank explosions I guess made the case for the fix. 
covered what was going on with Mr. Ellison and Oracle but when you hear the entire interview you get a real glimpse of how he thinks and works and we haven’t heard a lot of that as this goes beyond the media coverage you normally hear. I like how he discusses the “cloud” technology and he’s right, it has been around forever and the opinion on how it became the buzzword we live by today is interesting. 
Hawaii too. He has no limits:) When asked about his image that is projected in the media, he’s extremely funny and candid. He’s definitely one of a kind and has the left brain in gear and then some as he knows code as well as marketing and his company. It took 6 to 7 years to re-write all the Oracle applications for the cloud, so keep this in check when you think about how we function today and the amount of coding and development it takes to move to the cloud with applications. I said a while back when the President had his meetings with the brilliant men of code, he was there to learn, “aka men who write code”. 
. He says it is madness that someone gets their PHD from Stanford and then get a note to “get out”. We don’t have enough “trained engineers” in the US and finishes up the interview by saying “it’s insane” what we do. I agree. Great interview and nice insight into what makes “Larry” tick..he’s one of most valuable “hybrid” personalities and individuals walking the earth today and he has logic, marketing, engineering and humor all wrapped into one. 
practices knows what that is as it continued on from the original structure with paper charts right into electronic medical records and basically is the ground work to cover all the important items in a visit with a patient. The PKC data base was created to give support for “meaningful use” as well. What is interesting here is the access that patients will have to the data base of information and will be able to use it and forward to a physician and this way to put it in simple terms the doctor has the basis of the information he needs with contributions from the patient, and in the process the patient gets smarter too, so it sounds like this is a win-win. When Sharecare first came out, I had some reservations as we all do until we see it in actual operation and how it is formatted for use on the web. The big key here is to get “credible” information as the web is a jungle today. 
networks and become friends, a little like Facebook in format and each physician or other professional contributor has a profile of how many questions they have answered and where they are so in essence it looks like it drives some potential business to them if they might happen to be in the area of an inquiring consumer. 
Mehmet Oz and WebMD founder Jeff Arnold. 
cells have huge value as they are the ones that can be converted to other stem cell types, in other words you can take skin stem cells and turn them in heart cells for an example with reprogramming the production process. iPS cells were probably one of the biggest advances we have had with stem cell creation and what it enables science to accomplish. Disease treatments, growing human body parts for example are all wrapped into this area of R and D. 
the news with older policies being cancelled and new ones written. Some may accomplish this via marketing efforts and the old policy rates go out of reach as far as being able to afford so consumers are kind of forced to make a decision at that point. Those with pre-existing conditions sometimes can’t switch to a policy that is comparable or better and thus are trapped to take what they can afford and have to abandon their original policies as they can’t afford the premiums any longer. 
In case you missed it the link below has more information about the lawsuit and again all this was uncovered due to a stolen lap top where confidential information about patients was being shared with companies on Wall Street looking to invest. BD 
the data reported was not accurate either, so why have it. I’m sure it’s getting better as time moves on but I glanced through the list and guess what, not one hospital in Massachusetts was listed? What’s up with that. It might have something to do with the hospitals in that state contesting how Health Grades came up with their numbers, and they are right to question. 
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on Microsoft .NET technologies so this makes sense to combine the technologies and Greenway is also a Microsoft Gold Partner so the relationship with their technologies has been long standing with remote access available for physicians with the EHR and for the patients via a portal . 
incentives for installing and using the system. PrimePATIENT is the portion where patients can access their medical information via the portal. It appears the integration makes the process quite simple with both the patient and physician establishing their own HealthVault accounts. A Continuity of Care standard is used to import records into HealthVault. 
It’s also worth mentioning that the HealthVault connector works on the Windows Phone as well so mobility and access are all present. As mentioned above, this makes sense as Greenway is built on Microsoft technologies. BD 
What is interesting is to see the alcohol beverage industry jump in to this so you can read about the vodka you are about to digest but for something that could potentially have a deadly or bad side effect…nothing. 
of the nation’s prescription drug supply is poised to pass Congress, but without a tracking system that public health advocates say is critical to weeding out counterfeit pharmaceuticals. 
retailer and wholesaler with this acquisition. Boots is very similar to drug stores in the US with subsidizing income with products that are not drugs, so again like entering a typical US drug store like Walgreens. 
bringing two iconic brands together... and creating something new to the world," he said.
there are other medical issues with hospitals cutting off vital drugs and limiting surgical procedures that are owned by the state. It continues on to talk about exhausted doctors and their lack of supplies as well. BD 
, and maybe he somehow forgot his own in the process? His license expired in 1999 but the state of Illinois does not have licensing rules for CMOs, also a bit strange. One doctor commented that they knew he was not licensed when he was hired eight years ago but money wise was not doing bad making a quarter of a million a year. BD 
pay rent, bills, etc. As I have mentioned before on a few occasions, the middle class and I should add retirees are just becoming “data chasers”. Was it his fault this mistake was made? No, but this “bad” consumer at the mercy of a retirement “algorithmic error” is going to pay the price…how analytics looks at us humans at times as we have very few folks that ethically know how to work with “flawed data” and this is a classic case. Punish that “bad” consumer who on a couple occasions risked his life doing his job! 
errors are being caught and again it was not due to any of the information entered by the retiree, it’s the system finding errors within and incriminating the retiree, which all of this is not his fault and is purely one more example of the “Attack of the Killer Algorithms. His case is not alone as we see businesses and others doing the same thing and where’ the ethics here? When numbers and profit enter the picture folks who lack balance and accountability for “their” errors make the consumers the “bad guy”. 
it to try to educate as best I can and NYU Professor Siefe and I have had this conversation too on how we don’t have enough people educated in the US on “how to intelligently work with flawed data”. He has tweeted about his own issues with trying to get information from HHS for a scientific article he wants to produce and you can see it all with the links on Twitter, all public. 
“desired” results, they should also be held accountable for their accuracy and we don’t’ have much of this as lawmakers and others, including bank executives sit in denial or kind of play dumb and it gets reported in the news as yet one more OMG story, but nobody digs to the bottom to find the “cause”. Maybe I was ahead of myself here, but back in August of 2009 I asked the question, “do we need a department of algorithms” when the Madoff case was discovered. He even figured out how to “fake” algorithms” he never had and created his Ponzi scheme based on the naïve nature on which lawmakers react today and look at the people who were hurt there. 
released from his sentence a smart judge through it out and I myself questioned the bulls run he received with his court case. I’m not saying he was innocent or guilty but the dog and pony show done by Goldman played on the lack of education with high tech data today and again, luckily a judge finally came to terms with this and saw it for what it was and over turned the conviction. You can’t get a jury of peers today with some of the very complicated algorithms we have working today just about. 
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Math–This Could be a Subject for Michael Moore to Explore and Document In a Movie
Screenings Too–Killer Algorithms Part 12–Medical Billing Codes Style
Assessing Consumer Credit Scores–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 21 With Flawed Data
Duping” Society Combined With A World of Rogue Algorithms & Flawed Data Continues In Markets As Seen With Knight Capital This Week-Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 36
Study Fraud With EHR Technologies, Namely Medical Records/Billing Software Used by Hospitals– HHS And SEC Continue Getting Their Non-Algorithmic Fannies Kicked–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 46
SilverScript Senior Drug Program Sanctioned by Medicare Until the Payment And Billing Algorithms are Cleaned Up-Killer Algorithms Chapter 53
