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My name is Andrew Nguyen, and this is my first
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Clojure/West so hopefully this is somewhat in line
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with what you guys are expecting to hear. And, I
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think the schedule says XXXX systems for the
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company. We recently went through a name change, and so what you see on the screen is
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klaraHealth. And then, first, just thanks to Alex
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and Lynn and everybody at [inaudible] for putting on a great event so far and "happy to be
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here". Basically, I'm here to talk about kind of
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how we're using Clojure and ClojureScript in
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Health Care, Big Data, but I put 'big' really, in a
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really small font because to us, big data in health
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care is really a thousand little beta (RESEARCH)
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problems. I haven't been able to find the source
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of it, but I was told that the average patient
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electronic medical record is only about one to
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three megabytes, and so discounting images and
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videos and whatnot, there's really not a lot of
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data, it's just a variety of it.
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And so, a little bit about myself: I recently finished a PhD in Medical Informatics at UC San
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Francisco. And my thesis was on "Biometric and
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Physiological Sensor Data Analytics", and mostly
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wave form data in the intensive care
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environment. And kind of through that process
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and through that work, [I] became acutely aware
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of the need to normalize and harmonize
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healthcare data and whatever is coming on [an] electronic medical record.
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Just quickly, in terms of the audience, how many
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people here have a background in healthcare, or
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have done healthcare? (assumed number of hands raised].
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Ok. And then, in terms of the software side, I
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spent a lot of time in embedded software in
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defense aerospace, wireless semiconductors, and
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then in terms of the healthcare and informatics side of it, did a lot of work in Hadoop and
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semantic computing in general and web
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application development.