IT & Geeky Stuff

Evernote tech blog

uslic001 — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:30:14 GMT

Cool blog on how Evernote keeps everything running. I wish some of the older EMR companies would move into the 21st century like Evernote has.

http://blog.evernote.com/tech/

Ways to speed up input

uslic001 — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:25:20 GMT

I have been playing around with this program. So far it does not seem to work well with medical terms. I sent a message to them and this was their response:

http://www.aitype.com/

Hi,

Communicating with text editors requires special development. We support now Office, Notepad, WordPad, Skype, Windows Live Messenger, the 3 major browsers and some other applications. All were addressed by our developers, investigated, tested etc.

Supporting 3^rd party applications such as eMDs requires us to install it, investigate how to communicate with its free text editor and developing a Connector. We will definitely do that one day, but we have to first support more widely used editors such as Lotus Notes or Open Office.

We do have a model that will allow supporting this tool and taking the text prediction in it one step forward: A.I.type has an enterprise version, which is installed at your organization and has its predictive text knowledge based on the organizational terminology. In your case I guess it means allowing A.I.type’s server to read medical documents, electronic books and maybe websites, learn how texts look like in this world, then autocomplete you with the right medical terminology and context sensitivity. In this enterprise model, we also provide connectors to the organizational tools (for example: eMDs).

If this is relevant, I’ll be happy to get into details.

Best regards,

Noam Rotem

A.I.type

Review of Motion J3500

digital-doc — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:56:05 GMT

Motion J3500

MOTION J3500

by Kirk T. Dodson, M.D.
December 2010

Introduction

"As a physician who is mobile in multiple environments, I was quite interested when Motion released their new slate tablet pc, the J3500, in June of this year.
I’m an Internal Medicine physician that practices in the office, hospital, nursing home, and personal care home. I occasionally do house calls. My computer is more than just a tool; it’s an essential part of my life in terms of managing both the medical practice as well as my personal life. As one who enjoys digital music, video editing, and e-books, I spend a large amount of time on my tablet computer."

MedicalTabletPC

Neil Versel, Tim Jones, and more discuss emerging tech in healthcare in 3-part video podcast

david2 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:30:07 GMT

3-part video podcast on the subject of emerging technologies in health care and features five different speakers. See description below.

The use of new emerging technologies is changing the landscape of patient care. With so many options available, physicians now have an arsenal of choices to help them teach patients about their health, keep themselves organized and keep office records up-to-date in real time. This three part podcast examines video, mobile and patient portal technologies to see how they are engaging patients and providers like never before.

This is the first podcast we've done over the internet so any feedback on quality, sound, etc. is much appreciated.

BODY BROWSER

digital-doc — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:13:45 GMT

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html#

Good for patient education on Tabletpc or Desktop. Simple, but simple is what is needed and understood.

Welcome to Google Body. You need a Web browser that supports WebGL.
Try: Google Chrome Beta | Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta | WebKit nightly | Other

Google Body is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers,
zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can also
share the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the URL.

Server issue

msrdo — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:37:44 GMT

Hi out there. I am looking for a reputable and reliable company to do some remote service on my servers. I have an issue likely related to reverse DNS, an Active Directory issue, or an improper sync of my two DCs. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Mal Riddell

662.809.1453

msrdo@bellsouth.net

4G comes to my city

dagmar — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:57:11 GMT

My city just rolled out a Verizon 4G network. The local tv station tested a new laptop with a 4G air card ($100). They averaged 18 Megabits/sec. upload and 21 Megabits/sec download.

I am not a Verizon customer. But I just might switch now. Cloud computing (or application service provider) is now a very viable alternative.

Bloglet of the day: Practice fusion, "free EMR" review from Techguy member/blogger

Robert Gleeman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:15:46 GMT

http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2008/07/14/when-emr-software-became-freeor-does-it-cost/

I am always looking for anything that even LOOKS like an EMR review. I find very few. Good work, John!

New Podcast on data security and interoperability

david2 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:55:36 GMT

Nearly 15 years ago the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted to protect personal health information transmitted electronically. Today, medical practices face numerous challenges in keeping data secure so they do not incur serious violations.

Dr. Sharham Famorzadeh, Nuesoft’s Chief Technology Officer, discusses how SaaS vendors keep your data secure and explains what the new hype word “interoperability” can mean to your EHR system.

This podcast will be available tomorrow.

http://www.nuesoft.com/news-events/podcast/ehr-practice-management-software-data-security.html

Gaga Goes Geek

david2 — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:52:33 GMT

Here's something to brighten your Tuesday morning or at least start your day with a laugh.

"Interface": A parody of Lady Gaga's Pokerface, featuring the IT department at Nuesoft Technologies. View the lyrics on www.nuesoft.com/blog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWzD1cCmipw

Your Best Solutions for Massive, Multi-Terabyte Storage

uslic001 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:30:34 GMT

Interesting article at Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/5660551/.

I have been burnt twice with hardware RAID failures and once with a software Raid failure.

I am thinking of giving one of these two a try:

Reader Raharazod suggests forgoing a RAID array and using ZFS—a file system and logical volume manager—instead:

To be honest, after doing a lot of research into RAID arrays, I decided it was too scary. If a hardware RAID card dies, you lose all your data. If your motherboard in a software RAID array dies... you lose all your data.

Not to mention, as disk sizes grow to 2TB, there is a relatively high chance of unrecoverable failure for sectors. This can again cause you to lose all you data. Upwards of 30% chance of complete data loss. Too high of a risk for me.

Solution? Well, it's not the best option now, but I ended up using a linux distro with ZFS (alternatively BTRFS is now included in the linux kernel and individually you can evaluate it's stability for your use).

The reasoning? ZFS is entirely software based... and if one drive in a ZFS pool dies, you can recover your data. It also does checksumming, so while you're writing your data, it checks to make sure it's valid, and if it's not, repairs it from the data parity. Plus, because it's software, it can be (and I have) transported in it's entirety to a different machine. To boot ZFS also allows you to dynamically add and remove disks from an array. It's really working out well for me. Once I set it up, I haven't had to mess with it since. Granted, it's not as fast as a native filesystem (it's running through FUSE), but for media storage, it's plenty fast enough.

Finally, we had quite a few suggestions for unRAID, but nightwalker_12 sums it up pretty well:

Unraid is a software based RAID 4-5-ish system, using 1 parity drive to keep track of an array of up to 20 (I have a max of 16) drives.

Drives can be any size equal to or smaller than the parity, so you can mix and match some left over but still functional drives you have around, and drives can be added as required (or replaced with larger ones) without having to trash and rebuild the array. No special controllers required, but it does take a dedicated machine. Only special hardware requirement there is that it's bootable off a USB flash drive, so again, any older or unused hardware can be used for the server.

It's a NAS, so connects over the network; works with ethernet up to gigabit, theoretically wireless also (though, why?). Server can be headless (usually is) as the primary control system is web based and thus OS independent.

Best part, if there is a multi drive failure, since the data is not striped over the array in the manner of a traditional RAID controller but is written as is in the ReiserFS file system, what's left on the remaining drives is still intact and salvageable. System can be set with a cache drive for quicker data writes during the day, allowing for slower array integration and parity at night/during downtime.

There is a large host of plugins you can get for it as well to facilitate streaming to 360s, remote access, setting up web, file, and email servers. Really, anything you can run on a Linux system, it can run.

iPad has Hand Writing Recognition!

digital-doc — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:04:05 GMT

Well it has happened. The iPad, an excellent consuming device (basically view/listen to data), now has the opportunity to become a productive business machine. Thanks to the efforts of www.Jumpdesktop.com and www.ritescript.com, the iPad now has the ability to utilize handwriting recognition!

For several weeks now I've been using my iPad in conjunction with my Writepad EMR and being able to hand write into my EMR or any other windows application!

Internet explorer doomed

DrMurdoch — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:46:38 GMT

From a company that is using Firefox instead of Internet ExploiterExplorer

"We're much more likely to contribute back to something that's open than something that's only going to benefit Microsoft," says a business owner.

And that my fellow EMR enthusiasts will spell the end to Internet Explorer as a dominant member in the browser business. The only long term hope Microsoft has is to further embed IE into the OS, which will always be anti-competitive/illegal.

Any predictions ?

Custom Software

chrismills — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:37:42 GMT

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I have good experience with Symtex and would like to share my experiences.

SymTex is leading provider of Database Development, Business Intelligence, Software Development and Network Security. One can contact them in this regard to discover their consultancy and support services for IT solutions.
http://www.symtex.co.uk

SymTex

Eliot Park Innovation Centre
Barling Way
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV10 7RH
UK
0800 58 70 949

Time Billing Software

timesolve — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:21:57 GMT

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Hi,

I would like to share all about Time Billing Softwares.

TimeSolv, online time tracking and billing software has been used since 1999 by small to medium sized law firms, management and marketing professional service firms, engineering and IT consultants, and health service providers throughout the world.

For details one can contact them at:

http://www.timesolv.com/
TimeSolv Corporation
3432 Denmark Avenue, # 105
Eagan, MN 55123

New Podcast about Cloud Computing: The Future of Healthcare IT

david2 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:37:44 GMT

Nuesoft has released a new podcast about cloud computing as part of their monthly HIT Podcast Series. Also, be sure to check out the animated video on cloud computing.

"As we move into the era of software in the cloud, find out why legacy health information technology solutions will no longer be a viable option for medical practices."
Massoud Alibakhsh, Founder, President & CEO; Nuesoft Technologies, Inc.

cheaper way to get Windows 7 and Office 2010 on multiple personal computers (not work)

uslic001 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:04:32 GMT

http://lifehacker.com/5569550/

f you're planning on buying or upgrading more than one Microsoft product in a year's time, consider a TechNet Standard subscription. For $200, you get, essentially, 100 installations of Windows, Office, and other Microsoft apps.

Windows writer Paul Thurrott points out the recent $200 TechNet Standard addition to Microsoft's subscription-based software offerings as a savings over buying boxed copies, or even hunting down student and professional discounts for very specific options. With TechNet Standard, you get real, unlimited, lifetime activations of Windows and Office products, and as Thurrott points out, it covers a whole lot of computing:

It's for multiple installs. Each product key can be used to install up to 10 versions of the OS or application, for the most part. But that's actually 100 (yes, 100) installs for each Windows 7 product edition, because you can activate each key 10 times. So you get 100 installs of Windows 7 Ultimate, 100 installs of Windows 7 Professional, 100 installs of Windows 7 Home Premium, and so on.

It's notable that the Standard subscription is intended for one person, and for non-commercial use. Still, if there's one person in your household that just happens to administer all the computers, well, a one-year TechNet subscription sounds cheaper than buying Family Packs or individual upgrades.

If you know of another quiet but legitimate software deal, by all means—share it in the comments.

Twitter For Healthcare 101

mcuesta — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:16:40 GMT

We’ve creating a guide to ease people into the world of Twitter. Send it to any provider you think would enjoy Twitter if they ever gave it a chance. If this quick tutorial converts even a few people into Tweeps, we all win. The more, the merrier, as they say.

Twitter for Healthcare 101

Time Clock software

uslic001 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:06:09 GMT

Any recommendations for time clock software that works on a network with multiple office sites?

DSL DOWN AND OUT WITH AT&T- The Cloud is Gone!

digital-doc — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:43:07 GMT

I hope this helps someone else with business Broadband.

My partner of 29 years retired and so I had to change the phone bill from his name into my name. ATT insists that in order to do this, I had to terminate my existing DSL connection and all assoicated email addresses!! In other words, ATT refused to make a database name change without FIRST terminating the DSL connection! OK, so as to not have interrupted Internet access, I had to add a new DSL line, in my name and then make sure that line is working properly before terminating the old line. This would insure that there I would have access to the internet for billing etc. With ATT tech we activated my new DSL line . ATT claimed it was working but I was not convinced we were on the new line and perhaps still on the old. Before terminating my old DSL line, I spent hours speaking with multiple tech support people (5) at ATT that insured me that my new ling was up and running. The reason I spoke to so many techs is that I could not believe my new line was going to work given that I made no physical hardware changes in my office. I specifically asked each tech if they could temporarily close the port on my old line to make sure I was in fact using the new line. They replied, “We can’t do that.” ( Wrong-they actually can)! I found this out on tech 6 who did so.

Well, to make a long story short I had no DSL yesterday and still don’t as of this writing. Today, I am scheduled for a technician to come out and install a new dedicated box for my new DSL line.

In hind sight, I would try a cable company and divorce myself from AT&T. AT&Ts refusal or inability to make a database name change is intolerable from a business perspective.

Patient Reminder system for Medisoft Office Hours?

wcutiew — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:20:31 GMT

Can anyone please recommend a patient reminder system for Medisoft's Office Hours Pro and how much systems like this cost?

I need an automated one that takes patient file out of medisoft (or we can send, if it's not too hard of a process) and calls our patients and then updates the status in office hours to "confirmed" or "canceled"...
Thanks in advance

Exporting PT data from varian/aria

norlowski — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:23:38 GMT

I am looking to export all patient data (in whatever format) from Varian/Aria MedOnc manager. Does anyone know how to do this?

How to import patient demographic data into Medisoft?

wcutiew — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:22:46 GMT

Hi, can someone please teach me how to import patient demographic data into a Medisoft 16 database so that I don't have to pay hundreds of dollars to support people. It should not be too hard as it's a very simple database of First Name, Last name, DOB, Social, Telephone, Address and maybe referring doctor..

I would really appreciate step by step instructions on how to connect to the odbc or whatever database it is I need to connect to and how to do it exactly as I'm not a techie.

Thx in advance!!!!

Dell motherboard failures

gchiu — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:57:20 GMT

Al, you're a great Dell fan buying stuff second hand.

Did you get burnt by one of the millions of Optiplex PCs with faulty capacitors?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/technology/29dell.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

9 Things Electronic Health Records Can Learn From Star Trek

mikecuesta — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:28:24 GMT

9 Things Electronic Health Records Can Learn From Star Trek June 29, 2010

In recent months, the concept of the electronic health record has come to the forefront of the national debate on healthcare. Thanks to government incentives for physicians who adopts this emerging technology, acronyms like EHR, EMR, and PHR have become household terms. The mainstream use and acceptance of EHR will not only help patients connect to their health more intimately, but it will also help eliminate inefficiencies and reduce costs throughout the entire healthcare industry, but only if they are done right.

Where can we turn for some good advice on how to properly implement EHR? How about one of the most advanced civilizations ever to grace the silver screen?