I just started at a health insurance startup that is doing exactly what the article recommends: simplifying billing. Patients pay for procedures "in cash", using a card debiting the insurance company's account. Because…
I started a project last week requiring me to learn the proprietary EDI file format that CMS mandates. I was surprised to learn that in order to exchange healthcare data with our government we have to use a file format…
Co-ops are usually a republic, not a democracy. People still have specific roles, and those roles have authority to make specific decisions without getting a majority vote for that decision.
The data is being moved, it's just that the mechanism to move it was the FDWs, instead of e.g. an Airflow DAG. The FDWs are interesting because they're update-on-query as opposed to updating on a fixed schedule or…
I agree with much of what you said. However, I'm disinclined to believe there will be a trend away from a centralized data warehouse (or data lake). There is inherent value in having a single source of truth for…
I agree the BigQuery and Snowflake are very nice options for an analytical database. I've used Postgres's FDWs for an analytical DB at a past job. The reason we used them was because we needed minimal analytics for the…
> I can't believe that some startup hasn't glassdoored billing practices yet by patients simply uploading screenshots of their bills when they get them. I believe this is what Sidecar Health is working on:…
I'll take a look. Thanks for the recommendation!
A book for setting up data engineering infrastructure on GCP: https://github.com/Nunie123/data_engineering_on_gcp_book It's almost done, and I do plan to spend a little effort promoting it when it's complete, but it's…
Yes, the bar exam requires you to learn much law you'll never use. They are a general test that covers all areas of the law. Boards are for specific specialties. You don't take a board to be a doctor, you take a board…
There are plenty of smart people in Texas, of course. However, it may be difficult to attract scientific-minded employees to a location where their kids will be taught on a curriculum that rejects science in some…
I just started at a health insurance startup that is doing exactly what the article recommends: simplifying billing. Patients pay for procedures "in cash", using a card debiting the insurance company's account. Because…
I started a project last week requiring me to learn the proprietary EDI file format that CMS mandates. I was surprised to learn that in order to exchange healthcare data with our government we have to use a file format…
Co-ops are usually a republic, not a democracy. People still have specific roles, and those roles have authority to make specific decisions without getting a majority vote for that decision.
The data is being moved, it's just that the mechanism to move it was the FDWs, instead of e.g. an Airflow DAG. The FDWs are interesting because they're update-on-query as opposed to updating on a fixed schedule or…
I agree with much of what you said. However, I'm disinclined to believe there will be a trend away from a centralized data warehouse (or data lake). There is inherent value in having a single source of truth for…
I agree the BigQuery and Snowflake are very nice options for an analytical database. I've used Postgres's FDWs for an analytical DB at a past job. The reason we used them was because we needed minimal analytics for the…
> I can't believe that some startup hasn't glassdoored billing practices yet by patients simply uploading screenshots of their bills when they get them. I believe this is what Sidecar Health is working on:…
I'll take a look. Thanks for the recommendation!
A book for setting up data engineering infrastructure on GCP: https://github.com/Nunie123/data_engineering_on_gcp_book It's almost done, and I do plan to spend a little effort promoting it when it's complete, but it's…
Yes, the bar exam requires you to learn much law you'll never use. They are a general test that covers all areas of the law. Boards are for specific specialties. You don't take a board to be a doctor, you take a board…
There are plenty of smart people in Texas, of course. However, it may be difficult to attract scientific-minded employees to a location where their kids will be taught on a curriculum that rejects science in some…