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I wrote a paper for W3C PROV program with Arnon and Adriane from Mitre. The paper discusses the experience so far with applying the W3C PROV model to the HL7 FHIR model. Much of the material and inspiration came from my blog post in March on " Provenance vs Audit - its not a competition ". The paper is much better, and all of that better-ness is because of my co-authors. The paper is published on Provenance Week 2016 - program agenda " PROV: Three Years Later ". I was not present to present. Search for "FHIR". You will also notice that Reed Gelzer has a paper published there as well. The main point we make in our paper is to introduce the PROV community to the FHIR community, and thus enable the PROV community to better understand how other standards communities are using their standard, and thus the struggles they have with understanding and applying it to the Healthcare domain.  In fact pointing out that because of historic reasons healthcare has separa...

In all the networking and interviewing I have been doing lately I have been thinking more and more about a really cool project that I would love to participate in. As far as I know someone must have tried this, but it will take many technology advancements yet. So if anyone is working on this, I want to talk to you and see if I can get on your team. Yes, I am still looking for a job . The idea is I want to use Privacy-By-Design to design a Data-Lake that will respect Privacy Principles in all data uses. Read more »

I simply must point to a very specific episode of SecurityNow , a very good podcast every week. Episode 567  because he describes in detail five different products/services that simply did not do security right. All might look like well secured products to marketing, sales, or any leadership. But not done right at all. Sorry that the podcast is 2 hours long, but the whole thing is worth listening to because the whole two hours is full of story after story. These are not old stories, these are from this week or the week before. Symantic, StartCom, AuYou, etc... The point is to For those that want to read, not listen... He has fantastic notes he uses during the show ; and later will have transcripts of the actual spoken word .

I just finished a fantastic book " In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius " by Arika Okrent. This book was recommended by Grahame Grieve. I don't have evidence he recommended it, but I am sure it was Grahame. I wondered why he would have recommended such an obscure book. I may have figured out why, but I might have completely over blown the thought. Read more »