actually, the AMA and other medical organizations are self-serving entities, i think. they are out to protect their own interests, like any other groups (democrates, republicans, labor unions, etc.) i believe they have lost touch with the physicians in the trenches. they should be checking information systems like this. instead, their idea of the internet is another way to spam my e-mail address. speaking as a bitter doc.
Thanks for that wonderful observation. As a fellow doc, i can vouch for that. most of the time, i can get most of my diagnosis in the few minutes of chatting with a patient. i think it would be nice to have, but it be as another tool to broaden our.
besides, as someone else pointed out, we are getting "expert systems" in the form of managed care. you should all take a look at your insurances... those with HMO's will be under some sort of "guidelines", and can only receive medicine and treatment that the HMO can get in bulk. kinda like shopping at costco.
also, as an ob, sometimes those babies just won't let me reach for the computer to make a decision for me...
i noticed he has also designed a dithering razor. it says it reduces the cutting force by 50%. Does it mean it cuts 50% less? will it be like my old razor blades... where it feels like i'm cutting my face with sand paper? i thought that was cooler than his turntable.
i have only a nokia 7160, and have not been very impressed with it. the phone is not very well built, the battery will fall off if you look at it funny, the microphone sucks.
i would much rather have a motorola, or any of the cool Japanese ones before i buy another nokia again.
i was at a medical informatics conference, and came across these guys, vocera. this is the killer app for voice over ip. it works just like the star trek communicator. i see it being useful outside of the hospital and industrial setting too.
the japanese zaurus has a video adaptor so you can download movies to your zaurus. unfortunately, i don't think it's available for the us version (we have the ARM processor, they have the SH processor, i think) you can still view movies on your zaurus without a problem. smoother than the palm 505, i think
i was reading the article, and they had this paragraph:
Lenat's team taught Cyc to make sure everything it was told conformed with everything it already knew -- a protection that should keep Cyc from being filled with erroneous information during its public education, which for now is possible only on computers with the Linux operating system.
does it mean Linux is the only operating system to tha can be filled with erroneous information? or that linux is the only operating system to go to public school? i am not an english major, but this paragraph doesn't make sense
i sure would like this for my parents. they live in the middle of Honolulu, yet they are too far from the nearest DSLAM, and we would need to dig a trench to bring cable from the sidewalk to the house. no wires can simplify things a great deal.
the article didn't mention the speed, but compared it to Bluetooth. would that be fast enough for video and voice?
the W in seattle has Web TV, and i think ethernet to the rooms. you have to wear all black though;) the stay was nice, and the staff was friendly. you were only a few blocks away from the convention center and Pikes Place
i hope they fixed the firewire problem
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i have the SV24 for my sons room right now, and wanted to get a firewire web cam so his grandparents could see him now and then. unfortunately, the firewire connection is the only thing that doesn't work on an otherwise fine machine. i hope shuttle got that fixed with this new machine.
i'm looking forward to getting one of these for a home theater computer that i'd like to set up some time this century, with my wife's approval.
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seriously, in one study, over 80% of sexually active women in college tested postive for the human papilloma virus, AKA genital warts. condoms protect you from those viruses about 50% of the time
we need a new, free game from the airforce to go along with the game from the army. next up, run your own nuclear aircraft carrier remotely from the navy!
congrats team! it's a wonderful, and easy to use program (even for a non-computer guy like me)
i noticed there's a poll on the same page about whether people will keep MS products, or go to open source wholesale... with the/. effect, i have a feeling the last selection will win...
the question your father has to answer is what he needs, and how he will use it. i'd tend to agree with people who recomends getting a larger screen size, rather than going with a pda. i'll preface things by mentioning that i'm a practicing physician. when i did my senior research topic, i set up an ob/gyn data base. if your father is using it to get lab data, a simple web pad should be fine. i own a zaurus, and while i like it very much, the battery life is terrible if you us a CF wireless option. How busy is his practice? i see approximately 25 to 30 patients in a day, and battery life is very important. security isn't too big a deal as most people think. the people we have to keep medical records away from are the insurance companies.... they are who can really screw you if they get a hold of your information. data imput is also important. for the most part, i dictate into a dictaphone my daily records. it still is the most efficient way to keep track of my thoughts and ideas. if your father is a consultant, with 45 minutes per patient, then data imput is not as important.
ideally, the device should be light weight, with a large screen (SVGA), lots of battery life, touch screen, handwritting recognition, voice recognition. it's getting there.... but i'm still waiting!
how to provide people in the community with access to the internet, when there is chronic unemployment. Not all of us have dsl available, and even if they did, couldn't afford it. i do understand your position, since i live just north of you on the southern oregon coast. unfortunately, oregon is not flush with cash like california is, so getting a community up and running can be more challenging. i hope you guys succeed... and we can learn a thing or two from you. on another note, if you put a ".com" after our city name, you get links to porn sites. i wonder why someone bothered to buy the name of our town... there's no money here to buy it back from them.
heh.... i'm actually very farwest, at the edge of the oregon coast. belive me, we have our share of the less fortunate. i was idealistic a few years ago and created an ob database using postgresql/php with a web frontend. i even presented it as a poster at a national conference and offered to "GPL" it. no response from anyone important, of course. i've come to realize that medical record part isn't nearly as hard as the billing part. i do sound bitter, but i still enjoy delivering babies. sigh, i wish that's all i had to concentrate on.
if you find something, let me know. this medical billing is a real nightmare. i'm a physican, and have been out of residency for a few years. it's frustrating to find out how things work out in the real world.
for example, lets say i see a patient in the office, diagnose a problem, perform surgery, and follow up post operatively. i then submit a bill to the insurance company. they look at it, and will say my services were worth 1/2 of what i billed for, so here's the money.
i can also be sent to jail if i UNDERBILL the federal goverment. congress can also get a bug up there rear end, and change the medicare/medicaid laws, and retroactively audit your records with the new laws. you could have been within bounds with the older law, and could go to jail with the new laws.
mean while, i have my rent, and staff to pay. i've hired a person just to take care of my billing. nothing to do with medicine at all. my malpractice premium is doubling at the end of next month too. of course, the student loans are pending.
(seriously, if there is anyone out there thinking about medicine... think really hard. i love taking care of my patients, but the business side really sucks.)
the tough part of medical billing is to somehow distill the information in a medical record and provide the appropriate code to the insurance companies. medical records are now a financial document, rather than a medical or legal document.
of course, i thing the insurance companies want it to be confusing so they can milk every penny from both provider and patient. until that gets fixed, i see no solution.
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my wife went to williams college, only an hour outside of albany... i hear it's a good school.
i myself went to a school with a real football team... washington
actually, the AMA and other medical organizations are self-serving entities, i think. they are out to protect their own interests, like any other groups (democrates, republicans, labor unions, etc.) i believe they have lost touch with the physicians in the trenches. they should be checking information systems like this. instead, their idea of the internet is another way to spam my e-mail address. speaking as a bitter doc.
Thanks for that wonderful observation. As a fellow doc, i can vouch for that. most of the time, i can get most of my diagnosis in the few minutes of chatting with a patient. i think it would be nice to have, but it be as another tool to broaden our .
besides, as someone else pointed out, we are getting "expert systems" in the form of managed care. you should all take a look at your insurances... those with HMO's will be under some sort of "guidelines", and can only receive medicine and treatment that the HMO can get in bulk. kinda like shopping at costco.
also, as an ob, sometimes those babies just won't let me reach for the computer to make a decision for me...
i noticed he has also designed a dithering razor. it says it reduces the cutting force by 50%. Does it mean it cuts 50% less? will it be like my old razor blades... where it feels like i'm cutting my face with sand paper? i thought that was cooler than his turntable.
i have only a nokia 7160, and have not been very impressed with it. the phone is not very well built, the battery will fall off if you look at it funny, the microphone sucks.
i would much rather have a motorola, or any of the cool Japanese ones before i buy another nokia again.
so are there any plans for a replay tv weenie roast? ;)
i was at a medical informatics conference, and came across these guys, vocera. this is the killer app for voice over ip. it works just like the star trek communicator. i see it being useful outside of the hospital and industrial setting too.
i just bought a replayTV, and thanked my wife. best gift yet.
the japanese zaurus has a video adaptor so you can download movies to your zaurus. unfortunately, i don't think it's available for the us version (we have the ARM processor, they have the SH processor, i think) you can still view movies on your zaurus without a problem. smoother than the palm 505, i think
i wonder if it's poosible to dual boot the palm os on the sharp zaurus. not that it would be too useful, but a nice hack.
i was reading the article, and they had this paragraph:
Lenat's team taught Cyc to make sure everything it was told conformed with everything it already knew -- a protection that should keep Cyc from being filled with erroneous information during its public education, which for now is possible only on computers with the Linux operating system.
does it mean Linux is the only operating system to tha can be filled with erroneous information? or that linux is the only operating system to go to public school? i am not an english major, but this paragraph doesn't make sense
i sure would like this for my parents. they live in the middle of Honolulu, yet they are too far from the nearest DSLAM, and we would need to dig a trench to bring cable from the sidewalk to the house. no wires can simplify things a great deal.
the article didn't mention the speed, but compared it to Bluetooth. would that be fast enough for video and voice?
and all we need to do is plug a CF wireless card into the zaurus, or a bluetooth SD card. Don't need no stinking sleeve!
the W in seattle has Web TV, and i think ethernet to the rooms. you have to wear all black though ;) the stay was nice, and the staff was friendly. you were only a few blocks away from the convention center and Pikes Place
i have the SV24 for my sons room right now, and wanted to get a firewire web cam so his grandparents could see him now and then. unfortunately, the firewire connection is the only thing that doesn't work on an otherwise fine machine. i hope shuttle got that fixed with this new machine.
i'm looking forward to getting one of these for a home theater computer that i'd like to set up some time this century, with my wife's approval.
I'm sure United Linux will handle anything!
a subscription to the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Diseases
seriously, in one study, over 80% of sexually active women in college tested postive for the human papilloma virus, AKA genital warts. condoms protect you from those viruses about 50% of the time
we need a new, free game from the airforce to go along with the game from the army. next up, run your own nuclear aircraft carrier remotely from the navy!
congrats team! it's a wonderful, and easy to use program (even for a non-computer guy like me)
/. effect, i have a feeling the last selection will win...
i noticed there's a poll on the same page about whether people will keep MS products, or go to open source wholesale... with the
the question your father has to answer is what he needs, and how he will use it. i'd tend to agree with people who recomends getting a larger screen size, rather than going with a pda. i'll preface things by mentioning that i'm a practicing physician. when i did my senior research topic, i set up an ob/gyn data base.
if your father is using it to get lab data, a simple web pad should be fine. i own a zaurus, and while i like it very much, the battery life is terrible if you us a CF wireless option. How busy is his practice? i see approximately 25 to 30 patients in a day, and battery life is very important.
security isn't too big a deal as most people think. the people we have to keep medical records away from are the insurance companies.... they are who can really screw you if they get a hold of your information.
data imput is also important. for the most part, i dictate into a dictaphone my daily records. it still is the most efficient way to keep track of my thoughts and ideas. if your father is a consultant, with 45 minutes per patient, then data imput is not as important.
ideally, the device should be light weight, with a large screen (SVGA), lots of battery life, touch screen, handwritting recognition, voice recognition. it's getting there.... but i'm still waiting!
penny arcade summarized it nicely last week
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how to provide people in the community with access to the internet, when there is chronic unemployment. Not all of us have dsl available, and even if they did, couldn't afford it. i do understand your position, since i live just north of you on the southern oregon coast. unfortunately, oregon is not flush with cash like california is, so getting a community up and running can be more challenging. i hope you guys succeed... and we can learn a thing or two from you.
on another note, if you put a ".com" after our city name, you get links to porn sites. i wonder why someone bothered to buy the name of our town... there's no money here to buy it back from them.
get the sharp zaurus, and a 128 SD card to go with it.
heh.... i'm actually very farwest, at the edge of the oregon coast. belive me, we have our share of the less fortunate.
i was idealistic a few years ago and created an ob database using postgresql/php with a web frontend. i even presented it as a poster at a national conference and offered to "GPL" it. no response from anyone important, of course. i've come to realize that medical record part isn't nearly as hard as the billing part.
i do sound bitter, but i still enjoy delivering babies. sigh, i wish that's all i had to concentrate on.
if you find something, let me know. this medical billing is a real nightmare. i'm a physican, and have been out of residency for a few years. it's frustrating to find out how things work out in the real world.
for example, lets say i see a patient in the office, diagnose a problem, perform surgery, and follow up post operatively. i then submit a bill to the insurance company. they look at it, and will say my services were worth 1/2 of what i billed for, so here's the money.
i can also be sent to jail if i UNDERBILL the federal goverment. congress can also get a bug up there rear end, and change the medicare/medicaid laws, and retroactively audit your records with the new laws. you could have been within bounds with the older law, and could go to jail with the new laws.
mean while, i have my rent, and staff to pay. i've hired a person just to take care of my billing. nothing to do with medicine at all. my malpractice premium is doubling at the end of next month too. of course, the student loans are pending.
(seriously, if there is anyone out there thinking about medicine... think really hard. i love taking care of my patients, but the business side really sucks.)
the tough part of medical billing is to somehow distill the information in a medical record and provide the appropriate code to the insurance companies. medical records are now a financial document, rather than a medical or legal document.
of course, i thing the insurance companies want it to be confusing so they can milk every penny from both provider and patient. until that gets fixed, i see no solution.