The EMR system I work with can print the whole thing out or store it as PDF on a CD. Requests are fairly commonplace, though most are made by legal entities rather than individuals.
Most people simply don't know that you can request it.
We don't need Google here. All the EMR vendors have patient portals now through which you can see this type of information. Epic / MyChart is a good example. (But other vendors have something similar)
If your provider uses one of these systems, you can see your record online including test results and the notes your provider enters during/after your visit. There's even an iPhone app. I had an MRI and was able to read the radiologist's documentation on my phone.
Frankly I don't see much difference between Google and Microsoft's corporatism and anti-competitive practices, except that Microsoft has had a 20 year head start.
This might be a convenient niche in the market, but for most people it doesn't fit their buying habits. Most people in the US only use pre-paid providers if they don't meet credit requirements the major carriers offer. (Yes, many geeks use Virgin or Boost or whatever, but the majority of the clientele are not thus)
The average US cell customer walked into VZW/ATT/TMO/S 5 or 10 years ago and said, "I want a phone" and now is firmly ensconsed in the early-device-upgrade model of customer retention.
Does the same criticism not apply to the HTC/Samsung/etc which you're paying for over the life of the contract?
Would you not be paying the same monthly rate, whether you purchased the device outright or not?
From a certain point of view, if you're going to be paying the same monthly rate for 2 years of a data plan, you may as well be getting a free phone vs. nothing in return.
My experience has been a little bit different, I used an Android phone for about 2 years and now use an iPhone. I can't name any app that is better on Android. Sometimes they are roughly equivalent, sometimes they aren't, but what is usually the case is that the iOS version is smooth graphically, opens/closes without fits and starts, doesn't creak when interrupted by calls or texts, etc etc.
A good example is the ESPN Scorecenter app. the iOS version is great. The android version is more simplistic graphically, it doesn't wipe or update as well... for me, sometimes it needed to be killed and restarted to update scores.It works well enough, it's just not as polished.
It's probably not the developers' fault, I think there is universal agreement that Android is much harder to develop for. This works itself out in app quality.
But per the usual misunderstanding on/. , the general public is not geeky. It does not use hacks or cracks, it does not sideload or use custom ROMs. Most don't even upgrade the SD card, or even know that you can.
The general public picks a phone up and evaluates it, if they evaluate it pre-purchase at all, based on a 1-5 minute poking around on the device. I think the iPhone wins these battles with the average, uninformed consumer because the graphical presentation is slick and the interface is intuitive to the non-techie.
Some people equate smartphone with iPhone. For those who don't, most of them will buy whatever gives them the cleanest presentation and seems easiest to use. Openness and Google and other geek-factors don't enter into it.
I do think Android is an appealing option for budget smartphone buyers.
In the higher end market, it's just like the tablet space. Consumers are still looking at the Android offerings and saying to themselves, "For that price I could get an iPhone."
I think his point is, Netflix and Hulu might spend the development effort on Android because that's what the remnant of the market not using an iPad is using. It reaches significant numbers of people and they have #1 and #2 in the market covered.
Tablets are not what people really buy, what they are really buying is a thin way to access content. Without content, without the most popular apps they could get elsewhere people will say "What can i DO on this thing?"
What we really need is not some other Linux-based fragmentation device, what we need is a high quality Android tablet that is priced in line with the iPad and doesn't require mobile contracts.
We've had decent tablets that were massively overpriced, and goodness knows we've had plenty that were affordable garbage. But no decent and affordable tablets.
I think Android is failing to win over the tablet space because they're about 3 iterations behind Apple and still don't have a really good device with widespread adoption.
In the meantime, adding more pirates to the sea of Not-Apple doesn't expand the market, it means everyone will just continually get a smaller piece of the pie.
I was thinking that the boast about encoding in 720p at 30fps already puts it behind the curve of present-day Apple mobile chips, let alone what will be available later this year with the next iteration of the iPhone.
I don't know why regulators don't get this. Facebook's business IS farming personal information. The company's value is based on it. Their future expectations of profitability all depend on being able to sell it.
Of course they will maintain the veneer of compliance, while still doing the exact same things. If they have to pay tribute to a politician or issue an apology, so what? Pennies in a fountain. They have the world's largest pile of the world's most valuable commodity.
It goes beyond simple cost cutting measures. Project managers don't really see the benefit of good artistic design and layout.
Because you can't measure some things and put them into a spreadsheet.
It's not at the project manager level where governance is by Excel and Powerpoint.
Project managers have to relate to higher-ups in a way that keeps them happy while simultaneously making sure that what's important still gets done. Higher-ups don't largely know what happens on the ground or what is important on the ground. Your project manager more likely could do your job, or at least would be qualified for it. The PM level is one where understanding still exists, it's their (difficult) job to get those above them to make the right decisions. Sometimes the battle is worth fighting and sometimes it isn't. You have to be at once big-picture and small-picture, and it's not easy.
On top of that linux geeks fail to understand that people don't want to use command line to do tasks.
Well... I think what Linux geeks miss is that the parts of Linux that they like best are things the general public is not interested in. Customizability is not something the average home PC user cares about. They want things to "just work". The standard for "easy" is Apple, and people don't feel like computers should be any harder to use than that.
Hobbyists, which is what Linux geeks are, want something different than everyone else does. There are some people who enjoy working on cars and fixing them, customizing them, souping them up, doing DIY repairs... most people just want to get to work without thinking about it.
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You should join the rest of us in hating Google for the same reasons we hate Facebook and Microsoft. It's very avant-garde here on Slashdot.
The EMR system I work with can print the whole thing out or store it as PDF on a CD. Requests are fairly commonplace, though most are made by legal entities rather than individuals.
Most people simply don't know that you can request it.
We don't need Google here. All the EMR vendors have patient portals now through which you can see this type of information. Epic / MyChart is a good example. (But other vendors have something similar)
If your provider uses one of these systems, you can see your record online including test results and the notes your provider enters during/after your visit. There's even an iPhone app. I had an MRI and was able to read the radiologist's documentation on my phone.
Frankly I don't see much difference between Google and Microsoft's corporatism and anti-competitive practices, except that Microsoft has had a 20 year head start.
I'll side with Occam's Razor on this. If corporate wanted this information this badly, they'd have paid for it.
Since when is that a corporation's preferred course of action...?
I wonder if the same excuse-making would apply if this had been Bing/Microsoft?
There's some nominal annual fee, like $20. Music purchased from itunes doesn't count against the limit.
This might be a convenient niche in the market, but for most people it doesn't fit their buying habits. Most people in the US only use pre-paid providers if they don't meet credit requirements the major carriers offer. (Yes, many geeks use Virgin or Boost or whatever, but the majority of the clientele are not thus)
The average US cell customer walked into VZW/ATT/TMO/S 5 or 10 years ago and said, "I want a phone" and now is firmly ensconsed in the early-device-upgrade model of customer retention.
Does the same criticism not apply to the HTC/Samsung/etc which you're paying for over the life of the contract?
Would you not be paying the same monthly rate, whether you purchased the device outright or not?
From a certain point of view, if you're going to be paying the same monthly rate for 2 years of a data plan, you may as well be getting a free phone vs. nothing in return.
My experience has been a little bit different, I used an Android phone for about 2 years and now use an iPhone. I can't name any app that is better on Android. Sometimes they are roughly equivalent, sometimes they aren't, but what is usually the case is that the iOS version is smooth graphically, opens/closes without fits and starts, doesn't creak when interrupted by calls or texts, etc etc.
A good example is the ESPN Scorecenter app. the iOS version is great. The android version is more simplistic graphically, it doesn't wipe or update as well... for me, sometimes it needed to be killed and restarted to update scores.It works well enough, it's just not as polished.
It's probably not the developers' fault, I think there is universal agreement that Android is much harder to develop for. This works itself out in app quality.
But per the usual misunderstanding on /. , the general public is not geeky. It does not use hacks or cracks, it does not sideload or use custom ROMs. Most don't even upgrade the SD card, or even know that you can.
The general public picks a phone up and evaluates it, if they evaluate it pre-purchase at all, based on a 1-5 minute poking around on the device. I think the iPhone wins these battles with the average, uninformed consumer because the graphical presentation is slick and the interface is intuitive to the non-techie.
Some people equate smartphone with iPhone. For those who don't, most of them will buy whatever gives them the cleanest presentation and seems easiest to use. Openness and Google and other geek-factors don't enter into it.
I do think Android is an appealing option for budget smartphone buyers.
In the higher end market, it's just like the tablet space. Consumers are still looking at the Android offerings and saying to themselves, "For that price I could get an iPhone."
I think his point is, Netflix and Hulu might spend the development effort on Android because that's what the remnant of the market not using an iPad is using. It reaches significant numbers of people and they have #1 and #2 in the market covered.
Tablets are not what people really buy, what they are really buying is a thin way to access content. Without content, without the most popular apps they could get elsewhere people will say "What can i DO on this thing?"
What we really need is not some other Linux-based fragmentation device, what we need is a high quality Android tablet that is priced in line with the iPad and doesn't require mobile contracts.
We've had decent tablets that were massively overpriced, and goodness knows we've had plenty that were affordable garbage. But no decent and affordable tablets.
I think Android is failing to win over the tablet space because they're about 3 iterations behind Apple and still don't have a really good device with widespread adoption.
In the meantime, adding more pirates to the sea of Not-Apple doesn't expand the market, it means everyone will just continually get a smaller piece of the pie.
This really doesn't seem like what the Linux/Android community needs right now, more competing against itself.
In Soviet Russia, Phobos Grunts you!
I was thinking that the boast about encoding in 720p at 30fps already puts it behind the curve of present-day Apple mobile chips, let alone what will be available later this year with the next iteration of the iPhone.
We've all been too busy battling manbearpig to forget about all those nuclear weapons from the 1970s that are supposedly on "hair-triggers"
Their best plan of action is to do as little as possible, exactly what it takes to make politicians calm down and nothing more.
Grope the bat boy's groin and waterboard Elvis?
I don't know why regulators don't get this. Facebook's business IS farming personal information. The company's value is based on it. Their future expectations of profitability all depend on being able to sell it.
Of course they will maintain the veneer of compliance, while still doing the exact same things. If they have to pay tribute to a politician or issue an apology, so what? Pennies in a fountain. They have the world's largest pile of the world's most valuable commodity.
To the average user, look at Apple's "System Preferences" versus the Windows control panel. That would be exhibit A.
Hire 2 coders fresh out of college, release something crappy, and then give all the savings back plus interest paying someone else to fix it.
They don't really fly in the atmosphere, either.
It goes beyond simple cost cutting measures. Project managers don't really see the benefit of good artistic design and layout.
Because you can't measure some things and put them into a spreadsheet.
It's not at the project manager level where governance is by Excel and Powerpoint.
Project managers have to relate to higher-ups in a way that keeps them happy while simultaneously making sure that what's important still gets done. Higher-ups don't largely know what happens on the ground or what is important on the ground. Your project manager more likely could do your job, or at least would be qualified for it. The PM level is one where understanding still exists, it's their (difficult) job to get those above them to make the right decisions. Sometimes the battle is worth fighting and sometimes it isn't. You have to be at once big-picture and small-picture, and it's not easy.
On top of that linux geeks fail to understand that people don't want to use command line to do tasks.
Well... I think what Linux geeks miss is that the parts of Linux that they like best are things the general public is not interested in. Customizability is not something the average home PC user cares about. They want things to "just work". The standard for "easy" is Apple, and people don't feel like computers should be any harder to use than that.
Hobbyists, which is what Linux geeks are, want something different than everyone else does. There are some people who enjoy working on cars and fixing them, customizing them, souping them up, doing DIY repairs... most people just want to get to work without thinking about it.