In 2009, WiseVoter made it to headlines in Indian news media. With a few volunteers we are trying to bring this non-profit citizen empowering site to US for the improving the health of 2012 elections! If you have features suggestions/ ideas please share them below.
Soliciting Ideas for WiseVoter .org
December 8th, 2011 — HealthVault
Implementing Method_Missing in C#
October 28th, 2011 — Programming, RubyOnRails, meta-programming
Heart of the ruby on rails magic in creating a very expressive and eloquent web development framework is the use of ruby’s method_missing.
Following is an example of method_missing in action :
class Roman
def romanToInt(str)
# ...
end
def method_missing(methId)
str = methId.id2name
romanToInt(str)
end
end
Seattle Quantified Self Show & Tell
October 27th, 2011 — News, hvposh, quantified-self
Yesterday was the third Seattle Quantified Self Show & Tell.
For those new to the idea, Quantified Self is a forum for users and tool makers to interact and share knowledge, experiences, tips & tricks to enable better self discovery through tracking. The Seattle chapter of this forum is managed by great folks at Habitlabs (Buster & Amelia) and Limeade (David).
Understanding International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD)
October 21st, 2011 — Vocabularies
This a next installment of the Understanding terminologies series.
I’ll try to keep this post short, give a general overview of International Statistical classification of Disease (ICD), talk a little about ICD-9 & ICD-10 and leave your folks will links to practical advise on converting from ICD-9 to ICD-10, and SNOMED-CT to ICD-10.
Healthcare Startup Incubators
October 18th, 2011 — HealthIT, Market Watch
Inspired by success of the likes of Y-combinator, a number of incubators have sprung up in last few years. Its encouraging to see that some have chosen to focus on Healthcare. With a trillion dollar market and a dire need for innovation seems like a right way to go. There has been a lot of optimism on an increased VC presence in healthcare IT.!
Few notable incubators – Continue reading →
