Random content in a broad spectrum between medicine, data science and machine learning without a particular purpose. Enjoy ✌️
About
Hi! I'm Gabi, a medical doctor with a passion for math and data visualization.
It has been eight years since we started IOMED. Eight years since the idea of building a federated network for clinical data went from a concept on a whiteboard to...
December 10, 2024
The European Health Data Space (EHDS) is one of the most ambitious health data initiatives in the world. The proposal, put forward by the European Commission, aims to create a...
September 12, 2024
The journey of a new drug from lab to patient is incredibly long, expensive, and fraught with risk. A significant part of that challenge lies in clinical trials: identifying the...
May 21, 2024
Closing a Series A funding round is a major milestone for any startup. It’s a powerful validation of your vision, your team, and the traction you’ve achieved. But it’s not...
July 19, 2023
The recent explosion of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT has captured the world’s imagination. The ability of these models to understand and generate human-like text is undeniably impressive, and...
February 27, 2023
In the life of any startup, there are moments of inflection—points where you have to honestly assess what’s working, what isn’t, and be willing to make a fundamental change in...
September 05, 2022
The vision of a federated data network is powerful, but the reality is built on a foundation of meticulous, often challenging, on-the-ground work. Bringing a new hospital into our network...
May 10, 2021
How can researchers gain insights from the data of multiple hospitals without ever moving or exposing sensitive patient information? This isn’t a theoretical question—it’s the central challenge we had to...
October 15, 2020
An estimated 80% of all healthcare information is trapped in unstructured text: clinical notes, discharge summaries, radiology reports, and pathology results. This narrative data is a treasure trove of clinical...
March 25, 2020
One of the foundational principles at IOMED is that sensitive patient data should never leave the hospital’s control. This is not just a matter of regulatory compliance (like GDPR); it’s...
September 20, 2019
In the Hospital, my world was one of patient histories, differential diagnoses, and treatment plans. The data was rich, nuanced, and deeply human. But I saw a frustrating paradox: the...
March 15, 2019
I’ve (side) worked as a full-stack developer since 2008. It was the easiest way to give some use to the coding skills I acquired thanks to my uncle Pierre and...
February 03, 2019
I just come back from watching the latest film featuring Tom Hanks. It really made me think about the problem of data versus human nature.
December 25, 2016
Data Science, Machine Learning, AI […you name it] all of them are terms in raise in the marketing world as the ultimate solution to any problem but when I see...
December 04, 2016
I’m sure you all have heard this quote in some way or other:
June 21, 2016
I want to create an app. Keep it simple. Web looks nice, simple; it’s just some HTML, CSS and JS or isn’t it ?
January 06, 2016
After a first attempt of drawing a connectome (map of neural connections in the brain), I came up with a more ambitious idea for a visualization. Draw one and each...
November 25, 2015
I’m interning for my final year dissertation. My main goal is to find associations between medical data and connectomes (map of neural connections in the brain). After lot of processing...
October 02, 2015
Lately, I’ve been working a lot on data with multiple dimensions. I’m used to work a lot with Bokeh but one of it’s limitations is 3D. Matplotlib always offers a...
June 25, 2015
Lately, I’ve been working a lot on Python using the Jupyter Notebooks. I don’t like some of the styling in the notebooks, but that isn’t a problem at all, what...
May 22, 2015
While studying my career I had a really hard time in the 4th year when all my habits and study methods became useless. Here is a little collection of things...
March 30, 2015
Typing with thoughts Paralysis is loss of muscle function for one or more muscles. It’s easy to find patients that due to a large variety of disease they end up...
February 15, 2015
Usually I work in bursts. I do big crazy super productive bursts. Maybe because when I was at school I was lucky enough of being able to resolve every problem...
January 04, 2015
Computers should always depend on you to do something, and not otherwise. Computers, and derivatives, are tools that help you doing what you want to do. So, as with any...
October 10, 2014
Complex yet easy It’s clear that we all have limitations. And that’s a fact, not a personal opinion. The Medicine itself it’s not a subject hard to understand. It’s ruled...
October 06, 2014