I had a great reminder of the turning of the generations this week.  Garrett Whalin, Data Engineering Consultant at Illumination Works, presented in our External Speaker Series at NHS Supply Chain.  

Garrett was my son's very first friend.  I have known him 29 years.  It is an absolute gift to be learning from a generation that have come up underneath us.  It is their world now.  There was a time when their world was the sandpit in our back garden.  

My analytics community here learned so much in looking at the parallels between the automotive supply chain and the healthcare supply chain.  

Of note was that we learned of data quality issues being raised when the stream of sensor data contains an "Engine Start" and then another "Engine Start" without an "Engine Stop".  The parallel in healthcare is seeing a patient admission on their health record and another admission with a discharge.  

Much of our conversation was regarding more direct analogy.  Telemetry data being used to track component reliability. 

Much of the process of bringing in streams of events, playing them into an operational data store and then building a data warehouse looked very common, and while the tools may be very different, the architecture looked very recognizable