Breezy's Blog
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Looking some more on some Eclipse stuff.
There is a nice Slim UML plugin refer to as Slime UML.
Found an interesting plugin which is called Bugzilla Integration Plugin for Eclipse. As the name implies, it's a plugin for bug tracking via Bugzilla.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The AMA (Genetics) Genetics and molecular medicine site has a lot of useful information related to genetics. There is a a nice
Becoming an MD may have some additional useful background information.
[medical][Programming]
Was thinking more about computer utilization in the medical profession. I've often thought this is a worth wild field to have applied computer science in the real world.
My hope is in systems which can be used for data mining in the medical analysis field. I am interested in some means by which to capture medical test records, identify patterns in these records, identify probabilities for given instances of these patterns, comparisons against treatments.
One of the concerns, though, is to insure patient privacy as well, so there may need to be a sandbox that isolated patient identification information from their specifics.
While looking around some previously, I had found something which proved to be helpful to a number of projects in the medical and Linux area which included a
Linux Medicine-HOWTO. This represented a good starting point. It focuses on the medical information system as well as a few research systems.
Just another useful link on this topic. The American Medical Informatics association which seems to be an organization of IT and medical professionals. They have some resources that may be of interest on this topic.
Another thing which may be a value is to also investigate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) used for codifying or "describe services in electronic transactions" with more information available at the American Medical Association (AMA). Also Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) is also related to CPT and may be good to look at. These may be needed to link into medical records systems.
Also of relevance is the International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes which may be good to link elements with.
More to come in the future. With more authoritative info at the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
National Drug Codes (NDC) (and the FAQs) may also be of use which seems to be included as part of the Food and Drug Admisitration (FDA). Electronic format of this is also present there.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
[Programming] Found a nice site with a number of Requirements Management Tools, which mentiones another good compaision.
Monday, February 21, 2005
[Programming] While thinking some more about development purposes, the thought about requirement management occur to me. Currently I am capturing my requirements in an Excel spreadsheet, which while useful, is probably not necessarily the best tool. This got me to start looking for a requirements management plugin for Eclipse for eventual development purposes. I found the reqs: The Eclipse Plugin Product from Tigris group who seem to be working on a number of useful open source software engineering tools. They also make mention to another tool called xmlbasedsrs. This turned out to be an Emacs based tool. I did find a derrived project called Eclipser SRS (and corresponding sourceforge project home) which looks like it has potential.
Also found some more related project including a Rave Wiki describing it.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
While reading a few various news stories about new appointments related to security, I started wondering about the feasibiliy of XML markup languages in the legal and law enforcement communities.
During which I found an article on XML.com related
XML helping to write the law?. This lead to reference to the Legal XML site which is involved in "standards for electronic ecxhange of legal data."
This also lead me to a number of items relating to some existing relating to efforts. I found another reference to Global Justice XML Data model (GJXDM) (and FAQ) hosted on the Office of Justice - IT site, led by the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative, which may provide some additional means of finding a common solution to some of the problems in the law enforcement community.
Another interesting document is on the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan.
It seems like these types of initatives would be beneficial in improving sharing in the law enforcement community.
