Technology

EHR/EMR Solutions for Medical Practices

Posted Mon, 05/18/2009 - 20:34 by donmc
As a part of the 2009 Stimulus package, there is strong financial incentive for doctors to install and implement EMR systems in their practice.
According to the US Government, the benefits of IT use in the healthcare sector can bring these benefits:

Health information technology (HIT)
Health information technology in general are increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system (Chaudhry et al., 2006).
Broad and consistent utilization of HIT will:

  • Improve health care quality;
  • Prevent medical errors;
  • Reduce health care costs;
  • Increase administrative efficiencies;
  • Decrease paperwork; and
  • Expand access to affordable care.
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.bashrc functions to do repetitive tasks

Posted Sun, 01/31/2010 - 16:01 by admin

A cool thing to do if you find yourself doing something LOTs of times:

Edit your ".bashrc" (in your home directory)
and create your personalised script as follows:

wch()
{
sudo chmod 774 $1 $2 $3 $4;
sudo chown www-data.www-data $1 $2 $3 $4;
}

Then you can execute the command "wch" with parameters to execute the commands you want. Very cool...

IPV6 Address Space - It's BIG

Posted Mon, 12/07/2009 - 12:55 by donmc

I thought this was an interesting analogy for the IPV6 Address Space:
From: http://www.cedmagazine.com/ipv6-a-catalyst-for-service-growth.aspx Read more »

Google Chrome OS ho-hum? I think not.

Posted Fri, 11/27/2009 - 11:57 by donmc

Article: "Google Chrome: The Official Start of the Cloud Era"
Author Lawrence Walsh says: "Google Chrome is being dismissed by competitors and analysts, but it may just be the official beginning of the cloud computing era by freeing users from big, heavy PCs and operating systems." Read more »

A fantastic medley of modules for the discerning drupal developer

Posted Tue, 11/24/2009 - 11:57 by donmc

A featured story on drupal.org: Case Study of OpenTheMagazine.com
In the story, we get a fantastic closeup view of the drupal modules used and the reasoning behind their use. For a young Drupal developer/user, it is a very useful article.

The "Heroes" of the site were considered to be Views 2, CCK, & for search, Apache SOLR.
The list below of other drupal modules used by the site is excerpted from the article on drupal.org:

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I need my Quick Launch...

Posted Fri, 10/16/2009 - 08:25 by donmc

As I evaluate Windows 7 (which looks pretty good overall), I missed terribly the "Quick Launch" feature that I rely upon heavily in XP...
So I found this very well done lesson on how to get the Quick Launch back in V7... Read more »

Drupal gains ground in Oz

Posted Sat, 09/19/2009 - 06:10 by donmc

There have been a slew of high profile Drupal sites released recently.
"The open source content management system (CMS), Drupal, continues to gain popularity both locally and internationally. The CMS powers several new high profile websites including the Prime Minister's site, launched last month and designed by Canberra-based company OPC IT and ABC's three digital radio websites – Dig Music, ABC Jazz and ABC Country. Internationally, it is used by organisations as diverse as Obama's administration in the US to Greenpeace to McDonalds."

Cisco VOIP CallManager Features

Posted Mon, 09/14/2009 - 06:35 by donmc

The Cisco Unified CME system supports features you would come to expect from a time-division multiplexing (TDM) PBX or key system. These features can be divided into four categories: system, phone, trunk, and voice mail features. The major features in each category are included in the following list (current as of CME Version 4.3): Read more »

Very cool cardboard computer - ReCompute

Posted Sat, 08/29/2009 - 11:49 by donmc

This is a really trendy idea - not big difference in terms of functionality - purely on the aesthetic side...
http://www.core77.com/greenergadgets/entry.php?projectid=32

Design by: Brenden Macaluso


Processor Performance by Name

Posted Fri, 08/28/2009 - 15:26 by donmc

This chart comes from the crowd sourced PassMark benchmarking utility.
http://www.passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm
Please note that the slowest CPU recorded in this data set is the "AMD-K6 3D"
This table is sorted by CPU Name
To see this table sorted by CPU Rank (i.e. performance), CLICK HERE.
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