Multiple computer systems are still running simultaneously.
Clerks decipher the handwriting and enter the data into multiple computer systems.
Originally intended to foster "interoperability," the ability of multiple computer systems to understand one another, Postel's Law is now recognized as having wider applications.
Passengers are at the end of a communication chain that involves multiple computer systems, gate agents, pilots, flight dispatchers, air traffic controllers, and other airline and Federal Aviation Administration personnel, with updates moving along different paths.
We developed an approach to evaluate model performance using diverse Fortran compilers on multiple computer operating systems.
Instead, I spent my first days on the job watching my predecessor define the term "multitask" (now understood to mean "continuous data entry into multiple, incompatible computer systems, while answering phones and greeting the public") thus demonstrating a woeful paradox.
The billing process for emergency department (ED) visits often relies on multiple complicated computer systems from individual vendors, as well as cooperation between many organizations, departments, and other third parties.
QSSI built the data hub used by the federally managed and state-run health insurance exchanges, which serves as the conduit for information transmitted between consumers, multiple government computer systems and health insurance companies.
Subject to meeting interoperability criteria, various commercial providers were permitted to provide this infrastructure, and multiple clinical computer systems were developed with different user interfaces, mechanisms and even variations in clinical coding lists.
Those seeking to replicate this approach in other parts of the world may need to undertake groundwork to establish a mechanism for data extraction from multiple different computer systems, underpinned by relationships and permission for governance, data sharing and data quality.
Most important is CytoSolve's core feature for integrating multiple pathway models, which can be distributed across multiple computing systems and solved in parallel, obviating the need to merge models into one system, running on a single computer.
