Monday, 9 December 2013

HINZ 2013 Conference - a review in bullet points so I don't have to write coherently or in quantity




  • HINZ = Health Informatics New Zealand. What is an informatic? 
  • Rotorua is pretty cool.  (this is not sarcasm)
  • So many TrendCare dolls my colleagues accused me of acquiring them through illicit means
  • QualIT have really nice free pens, they have a solid, well made feel to them.  Would probably draw blood if thrown at a colleague.
  • Vendors are generally not very good at software innovation.  Wow look at the CSC & Orion booths.
  • There were a lot of managers talking to other managers about manager things. Where my dev buddies at?
  • It was jolly nice to talk to some folk from the other DHBs and to share some knowledge and maybe some code.
  • Conclusion: this is not a conference for developers, you won't learn anything practical, but the food is ok and if you want you can stare at the hot bubbling mud and imagine throwing vendor software in there.

From Wikipedia:  Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval blah blah blah no one cares 

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