However, such automated equipment is mostly not suitable for use in small diagnostic and research laboratories and for decentralized point-of-care testing, as they require highly qualified personnel, are often not portable and/or are too expensive.
In the US, the system is more decentralized, with multiple points of entry and less attempt at central coordination.
Additionally, the Basic Patient Privacy Proof requires returning all privacy policies to the decentralized policy decision points, which could lead to privacy issues in certain circumstances.
But as a result of the manner in which LAX developed — highly decentralized without a single point of orientation, much like the city it serves — that plan never came together.
Another passage praises decentralized power-generating schemes, pointing to local renewable energy cooperatives, "which ensure local self-sufficiency and even the sale of surplus energy.
He quoted Petraeus as saying that the U.S. military must "decentralize to the point of discomfort…Technical systems will come under attack and will go down".
In the case of households not connected to the distribution system, decentralized water supply systems, such as Point of Use (POU) and Point of Entry (POE), offer a direct benefit for the consumers.
The trend of modern history, he believed, was pointing back toward decentralized, nonpolitical, cooperative societies in which people could develop their creative faculties without interference from rulers, clerics, or soldiers.
The potential application of the technology for multi-analyte analysis in point of care and decentralized diagnostic testing in healthcare, agriculture and environmental areas is discussed.
The growth of fintech has likely already passed the tipping point, and the newly decentralized, globalized, "as-a-Service" way of looking at commerce has restored the bank account to a more appropriate status.
Infrastructure needs to be decentralized to be reliable, he says, pointing to DNS as an example.
