I don't know if there are some EMR exemptions/waviers for psychiatric hospitals or not. I recently had a relative re-enter a private psychiatric facility, and they also had no record of previous admissions.
As a healthcare provider working in critical care I am a bit gobsmacked. I can easily go back 5-10 years on most of my patients if I have a justified medical need to do so, so I am not certain why psychiatric facilities are not on-board with tracking patient history.
I'll second the durability of the Inspiron 1525. I bought one in 2008 and used it until 2010. My mother has had it since then, and it's still trucking along. It has survived being dropped and generally banged around for the last two years with no more than cosmetic scratches.
I don't know if Dell's newer products are as durable, but as of four years ago their build quality was more than sufficient for their price point.
It is possible to do that in many parts of the United States. There was a story about a couple sending the Sheriff to a Bank of America branch to seize assets to pay a court-ordered judgement that Bank of America declined to pay.
The specific rules probably vary by state and possibly by municipality.
The number of small businesses making over 250,000 per year is around 3%. The number of small businesses making $1M per year or more in profits is even smaller than that.
This proposal won't adversely effect small businesses.
It has been a crappy time to be a librarian for the last ten years, at least. The projected wave of retirement among librarians never happened, at least not in the U.S.
However, there are a lot of other M.Sc-level fields in the States are paid about the same. As a Residence Life Coordinator I made about what a starting librarian makes, and maybe 10k a year (around 40K) more when I moved into institutional research. Should've become a biologist
You need to retain competent counsel. Do not file a pro se suit against anyone. Do not try to go it alone. Unfortunately, with the primitive protections provided in most At-Will states, you will be hung out to dry in short order. Your reputation will be damaged, possibly beyond repair, and you will have difficulty working as a sysadmin.
Posting as much detail as you did on Slashdot was probably not the brightest idea you've ever had.
Your arguments are spurious. I provided a legal precedent where the "general welfare" clause in the pre-amble had been used to support the government doing something in the public interest.
I don't personally think that the healthcare reform bill passed by Congress was actual reform, but I also don't think it was unconstitutional. Yes, it helps that insurance companies are no longer allowed to refuse coverage for pre-existing conditions or, presumably, to charge people with pre-existing conditions so much for coverage that they can't afford it, but it still doesn't address the problem of a for-profit, predatory insurance industry, either.
The Preamble to the Constitution seems to give the government the authority to provide for the "general welfware" of the people of the United States. Healthcare is a pretty big part of "general welfare" for most people. My job had to stop providing health insurance last year. I have COPD and some other chronic conditions... I can't afford to pay for healthcare 100% on my own and still pay my rent and other bills.
So... I have untreated medical conditions. I get sick more often. I can work less and am less productive. If I could go to the doctor when I needed to and get the appropriate care, I would miss less work due to illness and probably overall be healthier.
A healthy workforce is a productive workforce. Most other "First World" countries realized this a long time ago. I'm really surprised the conservative element in the United States hasn't latched on to universal healthcare due to increased worker productivity.
Well, the appendix is a good example of the conservative nature of evolutionary change. There are more than a few genetic traits that have no evolutionary advantage and yet still persist, like attached earlobes or the ability to roll your tongue.
I worked, until recently, as a "Student Affairs Administrator" and I see a very similar problem in my own field. Much like Education, Student Affairs/Higher Ed Admin seems to attract those individuals who we might all call "nice but not very bright." They're not, by any means dumb, but they're not the most analytical minds on the planet either. A big part of their job involves thinking through problems, which they are often not equipped to do by the education they've received.
Like K-12 teaching programs, their graduate program does not actually prepare them by teaching them things relevant to actually doing their jobs. Many Student Affairs Administrators spend a great deal of time supervising students, and yet they never take a class on supervision or discuss the best methods for supervising their population, much like many education programs do not focus on strategies that actually improve classroom management.
Both fields share similar philosophies (frakking Dewey and his sloppy Positivism). I've given some consideration to becoming a teacher. I enrolled in a teacher preparation program only to be disgusted by the curriculum and the "push everyone through" attitude displayed by many in my cohort. Only one of the professors I took a course with actually had any experience as a classroom teacher.
Much like in Student Affairs, it's not the money. It's not even necessarily the pool of talent; it's the philosophical underpinnings of the field. "Caring and sharing" and "Everybody's a winner" are the mantras that these fields live by.
Unfortunately, Amazon seems to have a pretty good lock-in on the eBook market right now despite any potential price gaming. They're still much cheaper than the Sony Reader store for most books; Books on Board manages to offer slightly more competitive prices than Sony, but they're not as cheap as Amazon.
Amazon seems to be maintaining its competitive pricing on books, even in the eBook arena; and, other stores are either unable or unwilling to follow suit.
It's a general problem with any kind of social service in most parts of the United States. If you start making any money at all, whether or not the unemployment, welfare, SSI/SSDI, etc are a considerable part of you being able to get on your feet, you almost immediately start to lose benefits.
American social service/social insurance programs shoot themselves in the foot.
Yes, Gen Ed requirements are a key component of regional accreditation. Regional accreditation is an expensive process due to the documentation required, along with some requirements for operational capital, physical plant, library/information resources, etc.
You're correct about the gen ed requirements and proprietary colleges; these colleges are often focused on career/vocational training and dispense with the typical liberal arts curriculum in favor of either less credits to degree overall or more practical courses in a specific subject area.
Some earlier posters have touched on this, but a very major hurdle to Open Source higher education in the United States is accreditation by a regional accrediting body. These bodies are the ones that essentially say "your programs meet minimum standards" and having accreditation is what makes your degree able to transfer from one school to the next. There are already many private colleges (ITT Tech, Corinthian, Webster, etc), but they're not regionally accredited.
Regional accreditation is extremely important when it comes to transferability of college credit. Because all regional accreditors agree to fairly common standards for educational institutions (qualified faculty, etc), if I'm reviewing your transcript from an institution in California, and I'm an admissions officer in Massachusetts, I know that your education has met certain minimum standards.
Absent regional accreditation, I can't easily make that decision. I have to get syllabi for every course you've taken, along with the course catalog and evaluate each course manually to determine whether the content is equivalent.
Because, unless you have access to a DivX version, you have to spend time ripping and transcoding before you can watch the film? If I think about my film choices a day or two in advance and remember to rip and transcode, great. If I'm sitting in the airport and grab a DVD from one of the shops along the concourse I don't have time to do that, but I can put the DVD in the drive and play it.
I routinely write academic papers ranging between 15-35 pages, and I have written several that were over 100 pages with complex tables, charts, and other figures. I used to write these papers in Word 2003 and I wrote the last one in Word 2007. I had no problems opening these files nor did any collaborator.
Word may have occasional problems, but the majority of academics I know (spanning the humanities and sciences) write their papers in Word.
I advise student organizations as a professional in Student Affairs, and I do have to say that I'd be rather annoyed if I found out that one of the organizations I advise was doing this.
A mailing list would be ideal for this situation; I don't know if your university makes them available to student organizations (mine does), but even a Google Group or another free mailing list would be better than your current system, if you insist that everyone has to have access to exactly the same information.
In most organizations I advise that have that number of executive officers or directors that yours does, they have other members who are tasked with sorting incoming information and forwarding it to the other members of the executive board; for our SGA and activities board, it's the secretary.
Talk to your adviser about the mail issue.
I work in Residence Life and Housing at a large-ish university. I don't have an on-call rotation at the moment, but the nature of my job dictates that I should be available for major issues or crises 24/7, unless I'm on vacation. I also have a WM5-based smartphone with Direct Push enabled.
The student and professional staff know that they can e-mail my university address during business hours (8AM-5PM) and they will generally receive a prompt response. I have my phone set to synch items as they arrive up until 8PM, which isn't something I tell the staff members, but just in case something urgent comes up and it's sent via e-mail (which is a rarity, urgent issues are handled by phone or in person contact), I'm still aware of it.
After 8PM, I don't check my university mail.
The few staff members who have my mobile number or my home number know to call after hours only if an urgent situation arises.
I used to tell my staff just to e-mail me or text me because it would synch with my phone 24/7. They were more likely to e-mail or text with minor issues they were able to handle themselves or that the on-duty staff member was supposed to handle than they do now. Having to actually speak with me has limited the number of issues I'm contacted about.
If your boss or co-workers are e-mailing you constantly try doing something similar... either turn off push email or adopt a voice call only policy.
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I don't know if there are some EMR exemptions/waviers for psychiatric hospitals or not. I recently had a relative re-enter a private psychiatric facility, and they also had no record of previous admissions.
As a healthcare provider working in critical care I am a bit gobsmacked. I can easily go back 5-10 years on most of my patients if I have a justified medical need to do so, so I am not certain why psychiatric facilities are not on-board with tracking patient history.
I'll second the durability of the Inspiron 1525. I bought one in 2008 and used it until 2010. My mother has had it since then, and it's still trucking along. It has survived being dropped and generally banged around for the last two years with no more than cosmetic scratches.
I don't know if Dell's newer products are as durable, but as of four years ago their build quality was more than sufficient for their price point.
It is possible to do that in many parts of the United States. There was a story about a couple sending the Sheriff to a Bank of America branch to seize assets to pay a court-ordered judgement that Bank of America declined to pay.
The specific rules probably vary by state and possibly by municipality.
The number of small businesses making over 250,000 per year is around 3%. The number of small businesses making $1M per year or more in profits is even smaller than that. This proposal won't adversely effect small businesses.
It has been a crappy time to be a librarian for the last ten years, at least. The projected wave of retirement among librarians never happened, at least not in the U.S. However, there are a lot of other M.Sc-level fields in the States are paid about the same. As a Residence Life Coordinator I made about what a starting librarian makes, and maybe 10k a year (around 40K) more when I moved into institutional research. Should've become a biologist
You need to retain competent counsel. Do not file a pro se suit against anyone. Do not try to go it alone. Unfortunately, with the primitive protections provided in most At-Will states, you will be hung out to dry in short order. Your reputation will be damaged, possibly beyond repair, and you will have difficulty working as a sysadmin. Posting as much detail as you did on Slashdot was probably not the brightest idea you've ever had.
Your arguments are spurious. I provided a legal precedent where the "general welfare" clause in the pre-amble had been used to support the government doing something in the public interest. I don't personally think that the healthcare reform bill passed by Congress was actual reform, but I also don't think it was unconstitutional. Yes, it helps that insurance companies are no longer allowed to refuse coverage for pre-existing conditions or, presumably, to charge people with pre-existing conditions so much for coverage that they can't afford it, but it still doesn't address the problem of a for-profit, predatory insurance industry, either.
Ellis v. City of Grand Rapids is interesting precedent.
The Preamble to the Constitution seems to give the government the authority to provide for the "general welfware" of the people of the United States. Healthcare is a pretty big part of "general welfare" for most people. My job had to stop providing health insurance last year. I have COPD and some other chronic conditions... I can't afford to pay for healthcare 100% on my own and still pay my rent and other bills. So... I have untreated medical conditions. I get sick more often. I can work less and am less productive. If I could go to the doctor when I needed to and get the appropriate care, I would miss less work due to illness and probably overall be healthier. A healthy workforce is a productive workforce. Most other "First World" countries realized this a long time ago. I'm really surprised the conservative element in the United States hasn't latched on to universal healthcare due to increased worker productivity.
That's an interesting perspective on the ability to roll your tongue.
Well, the appendix is a good example of the conservative nature of evolutionary change. There are more than a few genetic traits that have no evolutionary advantage and yet still persist, like attached earlobes or the ability to roll your tongue.
I worked, until recently, as a "Student Affairs Administrator" and I see a very similar problem in my own field. Much like Education, Student Affairs/Higher Ed Admin seems to attract those individuals who we might all call "nice but not very bright." They're not, by any means dumb, but they're not the most analytical minds on the planet either. A big part of their job involves thinking through problems, which they are often not equipped to do by the education they've received.
Like K-12 teaching programs, their graduate program does not actually prepare them by teaching them things relevant to actually doing their jobs. Many Student Affairs Administrators spend a great deal of time supervising students, and yet they never take a class on supervision or discuss the best methods for supervising their population, much like many education programs do not focus on strategies that actually improve classroom management.
Both fields share similar philosophies (frakking Dewey and his sloppy Positivism). I've given some consideration to becoming a teacher. I enrolled in a teacher preparation program only to be disgusted by the curriculum and the "push everyone through" attitude displayed by many in my cohort. Only one of the professors I took a course with actually had any experience as a classroom teacher.
Much like in Student Affairs, it's not the money. It's not even necessarily the pool of talent; it's the philosophical underpinnings of the field. "Caring and sharing" and "Everybody's a winner" are the mantras that these fields live by.
Unfortunately, Amazon seems to have a pretty good lock-in on the eBook market right now despite any potential price gaming. They're still much cheaper than the Sony Reader store for most books; Books on Board manages to offer slightly more competitive prices than Sony, but they're not as cheap as Amazon.
Amazon seems to be maintaining its competitive pricing on books, even in the eBook arena; and, other stores are either unable or unwilling to follow suit.
It's a general problem with any kind of social service in most parts of the United States. If you start making any money at all, whether or not the unemployment, welfare, SSI/SSDI, etc are a considerable part of you being able to get on your feet, you almost immediately start to lose benefits. American social service/social insurance programs shoot themselves in the foot.
There's also DSPACE.
Yes, Gen Ed requirements are a key component of regional accreditation. Regional accreditation is an expensive process due to the documentation required, along with some requirements for operational capital, physical plant, library/information resources, etc.
You're correct about the gen ed requirements and proprietary colleges; these colleges are often focused on career/vocational training and dispense with the typical liberal arts curriculum in favor of either less credits to degree overall or more practical courses in a specific subject area.
Some earlier posters have touched on this, but a very major hurdle to Open Source higher education in the United States is accreditation by a regional accrediting body. These bodies are the ones that essentially say "your programs meet minimum standards" and having accreditation is what makes your degree able to transfer from one school to the next. There are already many private colleges (ITT Tech, Corinthian, Webster, etc), but they're not regionally accredited.
Regional accreditation is extremely important when it comes to transferability of college credit. Because all regional accreditors agree to fairly common standards for educational institutions (qualified faculty, etc), if I'm reviewing your transcript from an institution in California, and I'm an admissions officer in Massachusetts, I know that your education has met certain minimum standards.
Absent regional accreditation, I can't easily make that decision. I have to get syllabi for every course you've taken, along with the course catalog and evaluate each course manually to determine whether the content is equivalent.
Because, unless you have access to a DivX version, you have to spend time ripping and transcoding before you can watch the film? If I think about my film choices a day or two in advance and remember to rip and transcode, great. If I'm sitting in the airport and grab a DVD from one of the shops along the concourse I don't have time to do that, but I can put the DVD in the drive and play it.
"I complain on forums about video games that I haven't even played!"
Sweet... you post on the SW: TOR forums too?
I routinely write academic papers ranging between 15-35 pages, and I have written several that were over 100 pages with complex tables, charts, and other figures. I used to write these papers in Word 2003 and I wrote the last one in Word 2007. I had no problems opening these files nor did any collaborator. Word may have occasional problems, but the majority of academics I know (spanning the humanities and sciences) write their papers in Word.
You, sir, are a gem among lawyers.
I advise student organizations as a professional in Student Affairs, and I do have to say that I'd be rather annoyed if I found out that one of the organizations I advise was doing this. A mailing list would be ideal for this situation; I don't know if your university makes them available to student organizations (mine does), but even a Google Group or another free mailing list would be better than your current system, if you insist that everyone has to have access to exactly the same information. In most organizations I advise that have that number of executive officers or directors that yours does, they have other members who are tasked with sorting incoming information and forwarding it to the other members of the executive board; for our SGA and activities board, it's the secretary. Talk to your adviser about the mail issue.
I'm going to have to ask you to move all of your things to the basement...
There are already personals websites that do this, they just don't cater to mainstream interests. Bondage.com has done this since at least 2002.
I work in Residence Life and Housing at a large-ish university. I don't have an on-call rotation at the moment, but the nature of my job dictates that I should be available for major issues or crises 24/7, unless I'm on vacation. I also have a WM5-based smartphone with Direct Push enabled.
The student and professional staff know that they can e-mail my university address during business hours (8AM-5PM) and they will generally receive a prompt response. I have my phone set to synch items as they arrive up until 8PM, which isn't something I tell the staff members, but just in case something urgent comes up and it's sent via e-mail (which is a rarity, urgent issues are handled by phone or in person contact), I'm still aware of it.
After 8PM, I don't check my university mail.
The few staff members who have my mobile number or my home number know to call after hours only if an urgent situation arises.
I used to tell my staff just to e-mail me or text me because it would synch with my phone 24/7. They were more likely to e-mail or text with minor issues they were able to handle themselves or that the on-duty staff member was supposed to handle than they do now. Having to actually speak with me has limited the number of issues I'm contacted about.
If your boss or co-workers are e-mailing you constantly try doing something similar... either turn off push email or adopt a voice call only policy.