October 2010
7 posts
What is Meaningful Use? My Take →
From a guest post I wrote for Off the Charts, the blog of the American Journal of Nursing:
If you follow health care news regularly, and yet you still feel unsure what “meaningful use” means and how it will affect your job as a nurse, then you have something in common with even the most knowledgeable people on the subject. Despite the fact that discussion of meaningful use among health care IT...
AutoCAD Returns to the Mac After Twenty-Year... →
Give the dashed late-comers a welcome round of applause. This should have happened no later than Mac OS Tiger. At least they’re making AutoCAD for Mac free to students and teachers.
The Big Picture: Suburban Sprawl Grinds to a Halt... →
Epic Win →
HIStalk on why Epic scores high marks on customer satisfaction while everyone else is a distant second, or worse:
Epic’s secret sauce, I think, has a second ingredient: its choice of customers.
Interesting take, and worth a read. But I still say that your typical off-the-shelf EMR is a crock of unusable garbage.
Mirror, Mirror →
A team at MIT has developed a mirror that calculates your heart rate—within an accuracy range of three BPM(!)—by detecting subtle variations in skin tone as blood pulses through the superficial tissues of your face. A camera mounted behind the mirror monitors the color changes. Way cool.
DaisyDisk →
DaisyDisk is a Mac OS app that visual displays the contents of your hard drive by file size, allowing you to clean up your drives by deleting those hard-to-find huge files you downloaded from XTorrent way back in the day. It’s starburst graphs are beautiful, too, so the experience won’t feel like a chore.
Review of Pill-Taking Reminder Apps for the iPhone →
Bob Tedeschi for the NYTimes on testing Medsy, MedsLog, and Motion PHR Health Record Manager:
Appropriately enough, the experience was like ingesting medicine — an unpleasant chore, but good for you.