February 2009

31st January 2009 in Pantnagar witnessed students and campers primarily from technology domain participating at the maiden OSScamp Pantnagar. These camps are unconferences without the rigidity of conferences. OSScamp are community driven fun-tech-events that focuses on FOSS implementation and development in India.

We were looking forward to attend OSSPAC 09. I was specially super excited because it is first time that we were travelling with Avyakt! We pondered over and over again on if we should cancel our participation in OSSPAC because Avyakt may be too young to travel. We also debated if it would be professional to take infant kid in a Conference. We finally decided to take Avyakt along with us. I am really happy to see people at OSSPAC are very happy to see Avyakt. They are also appreciative that we did not stopped our participation. Here are some of the pictures from the opening day.

I have started packing my bags for OSSPAC 09, Singapore scheduled on 16-18 Feb at Grand Hyatt. I would be taking a tutorial on "MySQL Clusters" and a session on "Secrets of Best MySQL Optimization Practice". If you are attending OSSPAC 09, it will be a pleasure to meet you. Please email sonali@osscube.com and we will fix up a convenient time to meet.

Landscape of IT in US Healthcare is transforming at a fast pace. Be it incentives for e-prescription or 20 Billion USD package for healthcare. Several legislations are being considered for making use IT in healthcare mandatory. For example Blue Cross Shield of Massachusetts made it mandatory for hospitals to use computerized provider order entry (CPOE) technology.