From Concept to Creation: A Custom Stand for the Nord Stage 3
Dubbed "the ultimate instrument for the performing musician," scores of reviews praise the Nord Stage lineup. When our family's venerable Yamaha YDP-121 digital piano accumulated nearly as many stuck keys as working ones, I selected the Nord Stage 3 88 as our new...
Issues with using Creative Commons licenses for biomedical terminology standards
The most powerful health data standards are openly developed public goods. In crafting the Manifesto for Open Terminology Development we selected openness and accessibility as guiding principles. Yet in my conversations with standards development organizations who...
Complete guide to a high tech, low clutter home office setup
Many of us are working from home offices more than ever now. With a proper setup, your home office can stimulate your best work. Too often, our high tech digital lives create a tangled mess of cables, chargers, and adapters that distract and annoy. Plenty of other...
Project Secret Weapon Phase II: Clean Water
In the summer of 2018, we traveled to Uganda for the commissioning of the Building Tomorrow Primary School of Mwiguru, located in the Masindi District that we helped launch in Phase 1 of Project Secret Weapon. We are so pleased that it is now up and running! While...
Managing Scientific Paper Revisions in Scrivener
I have long professed my love of using Scrivener for writing scientific papers. Scrivener is a magnificent writing environment for academic papers once you get past the small initial learning curve. In other posts, I describe how I use a custom Scrivener template to...
Getting started with LOINC’s API by FHIR
Regenstrief Institute now provides web services that make much of LOINC's terminology content available through the HL7 FHIR API. These services open up a whole new way to interact with LOINC programmatically. This tutorial will help you get started with LOINC's FHIR...
School construction update
We just got an update from the Building Tomorrow Community Development Officer who is on site at the Mwiguru primary school supported by Project Secret Weapon’s Build-a-School campaign. The school construction is making great progress! It is wonderful to see the...
School construction is underway in Mwiguru!
We are so excited to share that Project Secret Weapon's Build-a-School campaign has been matched to the Building Tomorrow Primary School of Mwiguru! The school is now in the early stages of construction.Mwiguru is in Masindi District of western Uganda. Through...
Project Secret Weapon Phase 1: Mission Accomplished!
We are so excited to announce that we have met out our goal for Project Secret Weapon to raise $30,000 in 2017. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this awesome adventure! Closing out 2017 by Celebrating the Success of Project Secret Weapon We couldn’t...
Using Custom LOINC Subsets in RELMA
Almost no one needs all 87,000+ LOINC terms. Many countries that have adopted LOINC curate a nationally-approved list of LOINC terms for use in their jurisdiction. For example, LOINC subsets can help filter out all the mass-based LOINC terms that aren’t needed in a...