Family Medicine Notes

• Jott Slated To Launch BlackBerry Support Very Soon

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• TV Converter Box Coupon Program Website
  TV Converter Box Coupon Program website homepage. If you receive TV using an antenna and your TV is not digital, you need to take action sometime before February 17th, 2009 so you can continue to receive programs after that date.
• Venture Hacks — Marc Andreessen on cognitive bias
• In Deep-Dish Pizza Land, a Thinner Blue Line - New York Times
  Jody P. Weis, superintendent of the Chicago police, has shocked the ranks with talk of mandatory fitness tests and maximum body-fat allowances for officers.
• F.I.T. Stanford University Study
• Cell Phone Radiation
  Hmm .. more on this topic. Intuitively - I think this is worthy of review - though I'm not sure that I agree with much of what's written here. The key point in my view is that we simply don't know.

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• The Atlassian Blog - JIRA has Sixth Sense (Analytics)

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• Microsoft Brings WeeWorld to the NHS - GigaOM

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• One hundred coughs: Family practice case series -- Worrall 54 (2): 236 -- Canadian Family Physician

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• Upload, Compress, Save, Detach and Delete Microsoft Outlook email attachments with DetachPipe
  Compress, save, delete or detach email attachments with DetachPipe
• PdfMeNot.com - a nicer way of linking to PDFs
  Provides online conversion, viewing and hosting of PDF files
• the Web Service, SOA and SOAP Testing Tool - soapUI

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• Chatterous

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Here’s a nice article about the “next leap” on the Internet. Recurring themes from our world: 

Increasing the specificity and standardization of information will enhance its value.

Mr Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while a fellow at CERN, the European Organsation for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, would not be drawn on the type of application that the "Google of the future" would develop, but said it would likely be a type of "mega-mash-up", where information is taken from one place and made useful in another context using the web.

Now replace “web” with EHR:

.. it would likely be a type of "mega-mash-up", where information is taken from one place and made useful in another context using the EHR

That’s our goal:  to weave the most important, relevant information together for the provider and the patient make the best decisions.

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• LinkBlip - Send a link to someone, get an email when they click it.

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• A First Comparison of Google Health and MS HealthVault - e-CareManagement - Chronic Disease Management • Technology • Strategy • Issues and Trends
  While details are thin, here’s a first pass at comparing and contrasting Google Health (GH) and Microsoft HealthVault (HV). Overall, ...

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Tags: Genetics

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