The days when "your doctor" visited you in the hospital are gone. Hospitals doctors take over when you enter - especially in an emergency. Not having your complete history of drugs, symptoms and contact numbers can be very dangerous. Recent experience tells me that hospital staff react to the diagnosis given at the point of entry which can result in the automatic administration drugs that could kill you merely because the staff doesn't have your complete medical history. Any story about medical records must include stories about how the American medical system really works today - not how the "House" TV series pretends. It is dangerous to enter a hospital alone today. For some reason we Americans think the world works like we see on television. There are more obstacles to getting your medical records than you think. You not only need to have access and understand your medical records, you need an advocate who will be your spokesperson when and if you enter the "power" of a hospital's administrative grasp.
I had a sister-in-law given a diagnosis of schizophrenia on entering a hospital under an emergency attack that had nothing to do with that disease. Because the hospital automatically administered a "calming" medication for such a diagnosis and that medication interacted with a medication she was taking, she became extremely violent and tried to kill herself. I give that horrible story because it shows how fast a medical staff should have access to your medical records in order to not make potentially fatal decisions.
Looks like Microsoft's Update did cause the SKYPE failure. The question is whether Microsoft knew that it's update would effect peer to peer. Was Microsoft flexing its muscle as my contact said they were.
This is more toward the heavy science area but it demonstrates a genre I would like to find more of on the web, i.e. archived class lectures or conferences on science or tech subjects. This link takes you directly to audio/video media made at a conference on "planet creation" held at The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA.
I'm a believer that multimedia distance learning is a wonderful field to be in and many of these engineers and lab guys need a lot of help to creatively present their ideas on the web. If you know of some good sites with archived classes or lectures, please add them to the list.
Check out www.usvo.com for news releases about its (US Video Interactvive Corp) several suits recently brought agains the biggies in film distribution business.
From BusinessWeek Online: "USA Video Technology, based in Delaware, Conn., filed suit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against Movielink, a video-on-demand service that USA Video says violates its patent rights for an online movie delivery system.....
USA Video, a unit of USA Video Interactive, was awarded the patent, called "Store and Forward Video System," in July 1992; it broadly covers a method for Internet users to request and receive "a digitized video program for storage and viewing," according to the complaint. Movielink, which sells digital copies of films for download from its five partners including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Viacom's Paramount Pictures, violates this patent on the basis of its service, the complaint says."
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The days when "your doctor" visited you in the hospital are gone. Hospitals doctors take over when you enter - especially in an emergency. Not having your complete history of drugs, symptoms and contact numbers can be very dangerous. Recent experience tells me that hospital staff react to the diagnosis given at the point of entry which can result in the automatic administration drugs that could kill you merely because the staff doesn't have your complete medical history. Any story about medical records must include stories about how the American medical system really works today - not how the "House" TV series pretends. It is dangerous to enter a hospital alone today. For some reason we Americans think the world works like we see on television. There are more obstacles to getting your medical records than you think. You not only need to have access and understand your medical records, you need an advocate who will be your spokesperson when and if you enter the "power" of a hospital's administrative grasp. I had a sister-in-law given a diagnosis of schizophrenia on entering a hospital under an emergency attack that had nothing to do with that disease. Because the hospital automatically administered a "calming" medication for such a diagnosis and that medication interacted with a medication she was taking, she became extremely violent and tried to kill herself. I give that horrible story because it shows how fast a medical staff should have access to your medical records in order to not make potentially fatal decisions.
Looks like Microsoft's Update did cause the SKYPE failure. The question is whether Microsoft knew that it's update would effect peer to peer. Was Microsoft flexing its muscle as my contact said they were.
Heard a comment while walking the streets here in NYC that people who downloaded a Microsoft update today cannot log on to SKYPE.
This is more toward the heavy science area but it demonstrates a genre I would like to find more of on the web, i.e. archived class lectures or conferences on science or tech subjects. This link takes you directly to audio/video media made at a conference on "planet creation" held at The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, CA. I'm a believer that multimedia distance learning is a wonderful field to be in and many of these engineers and lab guys need a lot of help to creatively present their ideas on the web. If you know of some good sites with archived classes or lectures, please add them to the list.
Check out www.usvo.com for news releases about its (US Video Interactvive Corp) several suits recently brought agains the biggies in film distribution business.
From BusinessWeek Online:
"USA Video Technology, based in Delaware, Conn., filed suit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against Movielink, a video-on-demand service that USA Video says violates its patent rights for an online movie delivery system.....
USA Video, a unit of USA Video Interactive, was awarded the patent, called "Store and Forward Video System," in July 1992; it broadly covers a method for Internet users to request and receive "a digitized video program for storage and viewing," according to the complaint. Movielink, which sells digital copies of films for download from its five partners including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Viacom's Paramount Pictures, violates this patent on the basis of its service, the complaint says."