Amazon as a TPA or How Amazon is Solving Interoperability

By Jacob Flanders on

Amazon's recent entry into the healthcare world has left a lot of people speculating as to the aims, goals, and ultimate profit motives. The best take I've seen is Ben Thompson's at Stratechery [https://stratechery.com/2018/amazon-health/] - his analysis is spot on[…

Notes from USVI Gov. Mapp Press Conference 9 SEP 2017

By Jacob Flanders in USVI on

A summary of comments from Governor Mapp, the Commissioner of the Department of Health, the Commissioner of Police, and the fire chief, and a representative from FEMA: * Opened distribution centers: * Fire Station @ Fort Christen and Tutu * Distributing water, MREs, tarps * Will be distributing more, don’t expect to go to…

Writing a SQL Query to Generate Box and Whisker Charts in Excel 2016

By Jacob Flanders in tutorials on

In Excel 2016, Microsoft added Box and Whisker Charts. With this new feature, Microsoft has published a support document detailing How to Create a Box and Whisker Chart [https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-box-and-whisker-chart-62f4219f-db4b-4754-aca8-4743f6190f0d] . These instructions are great if we already have data formatted into such an a table,…

Building a Simple Multilayer Convolutional Network to Detect Cancer in MIAS Mammograms

By Jacob Flanders in Machine Learning in Cancer Care on

Previously, we modified the MNIST For ML Beginners Tutorial to process Mini-MIAS imagery [http://jacob.vi/modifying-tensorflows-mnist-for-beginners-tutorial-to-search-for-cancer-in-mammograms/] . The results of this were not great. Let's try this again but with a simple Multilayer Convolutional Network (CNN) in TensorFlow [https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/mnist/pros/…

Deep Learning Algorithm Diagnoses Skin Cancer As Well As Seasoned Dermatologists

By Jacob Flanders in Machine Learning in Cancer Care on

Stanford in the news today with another deep-learning breakthrough in cancer diagnostics: Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists [http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/25/artificial-intelligence-used-identify-skin-cancer/] First, the impressive results: > The final product, the subject of a paper in the Jan. 25 issue of…