Epic is Expensive. And they won't sell to individual doctors -- you need to provide 250-500 beds before they'll even consider you. They're only interested in very large organizations, not small private practices.
vendor lock-in is certainly prevalent with EMR systems. In most cases, they refuse to provide a schema or export features so once you get your data in the EMR, you're stuck with that system.
The doctors I've met and worked for felt that they were getting jacked around by EMR vendors. One of the biggest promised features for 2012 that won't be added until the 2013 version, requiring double the cost that was originally quoted. And since the feds have kept pushing back the dates for some EMR requirements, many practices are taking a wait-and-see approach. Also, billing is often done through aggregators who will accept older versions of billing software submissions; this means practices don't have to implement the latest and greatest, sometimes saving tens of thousands of dollars and all the hassle that comes from having a workforce who doesn't know how to operate the new version of the EMR.
Joust and Tempest are fun, but weird. In the first, your only controls are flapping to control how high and fast you fly, and directional left-right. In the second, it's totally a "WTF kinda drugs was this designer on?" experience. While not nearly as developed as modern games, these provided me with plenty of entertainment when I was a teenager. Don't be afraid to do something completely different, because if the gameplay is cool enough, the game sells itself.
Since sensitive information can be carried out of an organization written or printed on paper, we should also ban paper, pens, crayons, markers, and eyeliner.
We have the know-how, and a patriotic, knowledgeable, and capable workforce. If congress instituted taxes on foreign made goods to help fund jobs in America, we'd be safer.
Order of the Stick hasn't updated in months. Burlew had an accident, and has a zillion special project related to his kickstarter. I'm beginning to wonder if order of the stick will ever update.
unless the parent company (USA) uses its representatives (Congresscritters) to protect all those layers of bureaucracy (and funding) -- resulting in appointing managers at NASA who force contracts to Lockheed/Boeing to keep safe all those jobs (for contractors).
there's a shit-ton of stupid people out there, the dumbest of whom enter the Darwin Awards contest; the non-qualifiers usually end up in the "news of the weird. or in my home state, Indiana.
at $200,000 a song, and not being held to prove intent to distribute, the music industry could prosecute anyone into bankruptcy. fuck them.
i paid piracy taxes on blank cd's and blank cassette tapes, taxes which go straight into the RIAA's coffers. yet i record my own music, and am blamed ahead of time for crimes i haven't committed. so yes, fuck the music industry, fuck them all the way.
It takes too much brainpower and training to talk down potential criminals. It's easier to be a thug and to push people around. Cops have always been jerks to me. Last fall, they pulled over my gf for driving too close to the rear of my car (attempting not to get lost on our way to a hotel after 10 hours of driving). I pulled over and approached them and 6 of those fuckers threatened me with guns and billy clubs simply for asking them why they pulled her over. Cops suck. Avoid them if at all possible. They're mostly the bully assholes from high school who couldn't do anything better with their lives, and it must be fun to shoot at will, drive as fast as you can on someone else's dime, and generally be a dickwad.
It wouldn't take a great deal of time or effort or expense to implement DSP-based loudness controls on our tv sets; all it needs to do is run an adaptive limiter (hard-knee) and we could normalize the volume so shows aren't too soft and commercials aren't too loud. I'd rather my tv be smarter than relying on my local tv station to get it right.
corporations are more responsive than ever to finding and deploying alternatives to Microsoft software. let's hope this spurs more open source development.
It's not a disorder: it's the first stage of mutation on our way to becoming super-men. The X-rays we've been exposed to will eventually give birth to even greater mutations. I'm still waiting to attain my powers of
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Epic is Expensive. And they won't sell to individual doctors -- you need to provide 250-500 beds before they'll even consider you. They're only interested in very large organizations, not small private practices.
vendor lock-in is certainly prevalent with EMR systems. In most cases, they refuse to provide a schema or export features so once you get your data in the EMR, you're stuck with that system.
The doctors I've met and worked for felt that they were getting jacked around by EMR vendors. One of the biggest promised features for 2012 that won't be added until the 2013 version, requiring double the cost that was originally quoted. And since the feds have kept pushing back the dates for some EMR requirements, many practices are taking a wait-and-see approach. Also, billing is often done through aggregators who will accept older versions of billing software submissions; this means practices don't have to implement the latest and greatest, sometimes saving tens of thousands of dollars and all the hassle that comes from having a workforce who doesn't know how to operate the new version of the EMR.
learn basic gunmanship, so you're not at the mercy of banks.
that's the problem with these damned computers nowadays. nothing uses BASIC. or HyperTalk.
Joust and Tempest are fun, but weird. In the first, your only controls are flapping to control how high and fast you fly, and directional left-right. In the second, it's totally a "WTF kinda drugs was this designer on?" experience. While not nearly as developed as modern games, these provided me with plenty of entertainment when I was a teenager. Don't be afraid to do something completely different, because if the gameplay is cool enough, the game sells itself.
well we could use more rare earth on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Z8NU5ImK0
That's actually a pretty interesting and perhaps valid correlation. Thanks Freakonomics!
Since sensitive information can be carried out of an organization written or printed on paper, we should also ban paper, pens, crayons, markers, and eyeliner.
We have the know-how, and a patriotic, knowledgeable, and capable workforce. If congress instituted taxes on foreign made goods to help fund jobs in America, we'd be safer.
meh
Order of the Stick hasn't updated in months. Burlew had an accident, and has a zillion special project related to his kickstarter. I'm beginning to wonder if order of the stick will ever update.
unless the parent company (USA) uses its representatives (Congresscritters) to protect all those layers of bureaucracy (and funding) -- resulting in appointing managers at NASA who force contracts to Lockheed/Boeing to keep safe all those jobs (for contractors).
Miracle Metal? Why sir, that would be "unobtanium".
there's a shit-ton of stupid people out there, the dumbest of whom enter the Darwin Awards contest; the non-qualifiers usually end up in the "news of the weird. or in my home state, Indiana.
the public won't ask for prosecution until enough people die for marijuana legalization to be rescinded until it's seen as a crisis.
at $200,000 a song, and not being held to prove intent to distribute, the music industry could prosecute anyone into bankruptcy. fuck them. i paid piracy taxes on blank cd's and blank cassette tapes, taxes which go straight into the RIAA's coffers. yet i record my own music, and am blamed ahead of time for crimes i haven't committed. so yes, fuck the music industry, fuck them all the way.
It takes too much brainpower and training to talk down potential criminals. It's easier to be a thug and to push people around. Cops have always been jerks to me. Last fall, they pulled over my gf for driving too close to the rear of my car (attempting not to get lost on our way to a hotel after 10 hours of driving). I pulled over and approached them and 6 of those fuckers threatened me with guns and billy clubs simply for asking them why they pulled her over. Cops suck. Avoid them if at all possible. They're mostly the bully assholes from high school who couldn't do anything better with their lives, and it must be fun to shoot at will, drive as fast as you can on someone else's dime, and generally be a dickwad.
It wouldn't take a great deal of time or effort or expense to implement DSP-based loudness controls on our tv sets; all it needs to do is run an adaptive limiter (hard-knee) and we could normalize the volume so shows aren't too soft and commercials aren't too loud. I'd rather my tv be smarter than relying on my local tv station to get it right.
Apple's got the cash. What would it take for them to get in on the game?
translate: "He is a frequent visitor to our campus"
network admins & server admins, beware: your skills are not valued by corporations
corporations are more responsive than ever to finding and deploying alternatives to Microsoft software. let's hope this spurs more open source development.
It's not a disorder: it's the first stage of mutation on our way to becoming super-men. The X-rays we've been exposed to will eventually give birth to even greater mutations. I'm still waiting to attain my powers of