Review of Microsoft Cloud Show - Unusual Listener

Unusual Listener

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“Hello. I'm probably one of your most unusual or perhaps unexpected followers - a doc (though admittedly a slightly nerdy one). I came across your show trying to familiarize myself with what's going on with O365 and other cloud software / platform progression strategies and how it can affect my business (which is a Hospice organization, I'm the Chief Medical Officer). I'm not sure how in tune with this most developers are, but the medical industry is in desperation for a revolution toward something resembling a functional data interoperability structure, and despite how it may seem externally with recent efforts, those efforts are in many ways a relative failure (we mostly have EMR’s, but mostly bad ones – is that really progress?). I'm also not sure how aware most are of what a sad state the level of sophistication of the average Electronic Medical Record software platform is in in this country. The bigger the EMR vendor the more likely they are using 20-30 year old architectures "under the hood" with terrible data silo issues and any "discrete" data entry is basically completely on the back of the clinical users to serve it up on a silver platter to the EMR so that it can process it in a useful way. This is literally killing our productivity as docs. Without a doubt, our only hope of getting "good" data, big data, and most importantly inter-operable and useful data we can use to modernize the health industry is this revolution to the cloud for apps and core IT infrastructure and eventually the Personal Health Information (patient) data content as well. It levels the playing field and scales the entry fee appropriately for say a small hospice organization like mine compared to large hospital networks, etc. And importantly, it gives us equal access to latest & Greatest database and computing tools architectures and processes. Key to success is for medicine to develop common platforms, common interoperable data standards, and perhaps most importantly an agreement on just common data elements so medical data in one EMR can truly move from that EMR deep into a useful format in the next that is commonly understood. So I was interested in your Geek-out on Node.js and the (rather odd but interesting) relevance it has to my plight with the discussions that you have like those discussing the convergence across platforms and OS's now that you all in the developer world are realizing is so advantageous in the cloud. Medicine needs to go through the same revolution so that all EMR’s speak the same language and can interoperate in an HTML-like way. O365 looks like it can be a big helper in that space as well - for instance I just recognized that I'm now able to use Moodle and a new O365 Powerpoint plugin to essentially replace what we're paying $8k/yr for, and in addition we can of course develop our own educational content in Powerpoint and with a single click I can have that served up and essentially in LMS format. That's POWERFUL leverage for small companies. We can use this and serve up Mayo clinic style streaming educational content to our patients without hiring expensive developers and content hosters (no offense !) that we can’t afford. So as far as podcast topics, I'm in favor of any topics you choose that help us conceptualize how coding platforms and infrastructure platforms and SaaS / PaaS industry progression applies across industries. This show has been very helpful information for even a non-coder like me understand and get a sense of where we are all headed. It's amazing at how much of my time I've spent trying to translate between medical folks and IT folks and coders over the years, to essentially just get them to conceptualize what O365 is doing to that platform - each side has been (in often futile ways) for years trying to interact and develop software and infrastructure to support what medicine needs. I think with what I see in the revolution into the cloud technologies, the tools may finally fit the needs. Anyway, I’m a big fan of the show, the content, and particularly your style of speech and interaction and how you manage to put in just enough contextual explanation to keep someone like me in the conversation and make it entertaining at the same time. Perhaps my commentary can be validation to guys like you for how important work like yours is, and that it's not just about cool bells and whistles for MS Office software, but it's really about building the infrastructure and platforms that will be the future of our business world that takes the practical application of important yet ailing industries like mine to the next level. Thanks! Joe Spurlock MD Wichita KS”

Joe Blo via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 01/26/15

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