The Government's Vast Building Program

The health information technology safety framework: building great structures on vast voids.

To cite: Koppel R. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs2015-004746 With their health information technology (HIT) safety framework, Drs Hardeep Singh and Dean Sittig offer many admirable suggestions to improve the safety of computerised provider order entry and electronic health records (EHRs). As I shall try to explain, however, I find their pr...

“The Engineering Capacity Building Program” in Ethiopia

The vast unknown microbial biosphere.

The desire to know how many living beings there are on the planet has been a permanent obsession of biologists. Many inventories have been done, especially with large animals and plants, since naturalists began modern taxonomy in the 18th century. But there is the feeling that we are missing a large part of the diversity of microorganisms. How large this ignorance is, however, is a matter of de...

Implementation of a Sparse Direct Matrix Solver for the VAST Finite Element Program

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Building a Lung Transplant Program

Twenty-five years have passed since the first lung transplant was performed at the Instituto do Coração (INCOR) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. On October 16, 1990, a 26-year-old woman with severe pulmonary fibrosis and secondary pulmonary hypertension underwent a single left lung transplant but only survived for 12 days, dying due to sepsis and d...