EHR/EMR Solutions for Medical Practices

As a part of the 2009 Stimulus package, there is strong financial incentive for doctors to install and implement EMR systems in their practice.
According to the US Government, the benefits of IT use in the healthcare sector can bring these benefits:

Health information technology (HIT)
Health information technology in general are increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system (Chaudhry et al., 2006).
Broad and consistent utilization of HIT will:

  • Improve health care quality;
  • Prevent medical errors;
  • Reduce health care costs;
  • Increase administrative efficiencies;
  • Decrease paperwork; and
  • Expand access to affordable care.

Using Blockquote in Drupal to highlight text...

OK- I finally have one I like to highlight a quotation with.
It is a Drupal module called "Blockquotes" and it goes like this:

Posted by zeta ζ on July 14, 2008 at 7:38pm

The Blockquote module is used to create styled blockquotes in your pages.

These blocks of text are intended for one or more verses or paragraphs that are quoted verbatim (word for word). Separating this text into a block shows that the whole block is quoted, therefore no punctuation marks are needed to indicate the beginning or end of the quotation.

Pull Quotes

I wanted to add some CSS to my Drupal sites to provide a cool quotations look for blog posts etc. This is the module that I found that I think does a very good job. Unfortunately, I also need an option to remove the original text from the post - so that ONLY the pull quote is viewable. But that doesn't appear to be available as an option with this module. For most of the time, I really want the quote to be INLINE in the text. Any thoughts on how that could be done would be welcomed - you can comment on it here if you like... Read more »

Twitter Module Breaks if you don't upgrade to OAuth 6.x-3.0

I just sorted out the newest version of the Drupal Twitter module (https://drupal.org/project/twitter) - it was broken somewhere around December by an upgrade that pushed the version required of the Drupal OAuth Module http://drupal.org/project/oauth up to the newer OAuth 6.x-3.0-beta4
There is also now a required module ADDED called "Autoload" (Currently Version 6.x-2.1 - http://drupal.org/project/autoload) that was not required prior to this. Read more »

Resetting the TCP settings in Windows 7 (& probably Vista etc.)

It's hard to admit this, but I have had a great deal of trouble with Windows 7 and VPN - connecting to a remote VPN service from a Win7 Desktop.

I looked everywhere to try to resolve it, when I finally ran across this little gem:

netsh winsock reset catalog [resets winsock]
netsh int ip reset reset.log hit [resets the TCP/IP stack]

Run these two at the command line, REBOOT, and (at least for me) all of my issues with VPN connection failures were GONE !

TEST WEBFORM

This is a test of the new content type: "Webform"

Settings (in Vista and Windows 7) to access Samba Shares...

Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication. I am not sure what the setting is by default in Windows 7 - so this may apply there too.

Note that NTLMv2 authentication is supported in Samba 3.0+

Seems like we ought to be heading towards Kerberos for all our authentication needs in the longer term.

See the forum discussion on this at:
http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=...

HP Array Configuration Utility in a Redhat Linux Server

To review the HP Drive Array Diagnostics in a Redhat Linux Server:

Start the services:
hp-health System Health Monitor and Command line Utility Package.
hpsmhd    System Management Homepage server.

Then start the "Array Configuration Utility":

# sudo  /usr/sbin/cpqacuxe -R

Then browse to the URL on your server (in this example 10.2.2.1):
https://10.2.2.1:2381

Great Visio Resource

Greg Ferro has great ideas for representation of complex VLAN & routing layouts in Visio:
http://etherealmind.com/category/network-diagrams/

Mount an NTFS Filesystem in Linux

Under CentOS 5.6 OR Redhat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5.6
To mount NTFS file systems, you'll need to do this:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt

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