Artificial Intelligence is quickly becoming part of everyday software development. Developers now use AI tools to generate code, write tests, refactor legacy systems, analyze data, summarize clinical information, and speed up routine tasks that once took hours. For many teams, AI has turned into a daily companion, something that sits in the editor, the terminal, … [Read more…]
I get why free Android apps use ads. Developers have to earn money somehow, and ads let them offer features without everyone paying upfront. But I can only put up with so much advertising. Some apps make even simple things hard because of promo screens, subscription pop-ups, or ads that break my focus. I know … [Read more…]
Is Epic Secure Chat Discoverable in Litigation? Fig 3: Epic Secure Chat Governance: MRN-Linked vs Non-MRN-Linked Messages For legal and compliance teams, this is the sharper version of the monitoring question. And the answer is: it depends on whether the message is MRN-linked. MRN-linked Secure Chat messages are part of the patient record under HIPAA’s … [Read more…]
One enterprising Redditor has discovered how to get Google Assistant back, even after Google officially shut it down last month. This shows that although Google has patched Google Assistant out of its operating system, the servers are still live. So, this is great news for anyone who prefers using Google Assistant to the much chattier … [Read more…]
A small redirect bug, three services, and why startsWith is not a security check. Single sign-on flows usually end the same way: the user logs in, and the identity provider sends them back to the app that asked, along with a session. The URL they’re sent back to is often just a query parameter. In … [Read more…]
Phones in the US have been getting more expensive. In the past month, Google, Samsung, and Apple raised the prices of phones that were already on sale. However, the Google Pixel 11 costs $899, the same as it did at launch. I use a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, but after comparing the Pixel 11 with … [Read more…]
For the better part of a decade, “healthcare interoperability” has been treated as the finish line. FHIR APIs, HL7 v2 feeds, CommonWell, Carequality – an enormous amount of engineering effort has gone into making sure that clinical data can move between systems. And it’s worked. A referral can carry structured patient data. A payer can … [Read more…]
I’ve tried plenty of note-taking apps, but for one reason or another, I keep coming back to Google Keep. Between ideas, tasks, things I need to purchase, and article angles, Google Keep has become my singular catch-all destination. The reason for that is simple. Unlike other productivity apps that drown you in options for categorization, … [Read more…]
Most discussions of “AI in healthcare” stay abstract – bigger context windows, better diagnostic accuracy, multimodal clinical reasoning. Useful research, but disconnected from what actually eats a care coordinator’s or physician’s day: referrals that sit in a queue, prior authorizations that require assembling documentation from three different places, encounter notes that need turning into a … [Read more…]
OnePlus leaving the US market has left a big hole in the Android space. The company that pushed other Android manufacturers to up their game with faster charging, bigger batteries, top-tier performance, and, most importantly, good value for money no longer sells its phones in most global markets. With OnePlus now gone, there’s less competition … [Read more…]