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Access to patients
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Healthcare in the US has all sorts of problems and one among them is ‘access to care’. I recently visiting India after a few years. This was not a vacation but to see my grand mother who was |
| Posted @ May 21st, 2009 by anandgad
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Is Browser an OS?
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Nowadays we do most of our work within the browser than outside it. So a logical question would be - what is the need for any applications outside of the browser? When I can write, edit and save documents with |
| Posted @ April 17th, 2009 by sridhar
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Laptop Containing California Patients' Information Stolen
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How many times have we heard about such news? What is HIPAA doing about this? I've read all about HIPAA privacy and security practices and the liability that healthcare organizations face if they fail to maintain HIPAA standards. The only |
| Posted @ April 2nd, 2009 by anandgad
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Workaround for IPv6 Default Address Selection Implementation in Vista
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Microsoft implemented the standard (RFC 3484) specifically section 6 rule 9 in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Microsoft I think is the first major client OS to do so.
Rule 9: Use longest matching prefix.
When DA and DB |
| Posted @ April 1st, 2009 by sridhar
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Guardian is now uttering successive chirping sounds!
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Yes! Guardian has decided to twitter their news! They believe that any news can be told in 140 characters (maximum limit for twitter messages). I already subscribe to Sciam and Onion and they do keep me quite busy I should |
| Posted @ April 1st, 2009 by sridhar
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OS Provider Hosted Mobile App Stores - Is this a temporary phenomena?
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There has been great frenzy in launching mobile app stores by different Mobile players after Apple launched its app store. The latest to join the bandwagon is Microsoft which is planning to demonstrate their version of app store - "Windows Marketplace |
| Posted @ March 31st, 2009 by sridhar
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Aetna and Cigna to pay for online visits
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This is a follow up on one of my earlier posts. I had written about paying doctors for emails they send to patients. But now, apart from paying physicians $25 - $35 for online visits, Aetna and Cigna are |
| Posted @ April 1st, 2008 by anandgad
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How Green is your Business?
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I have been a big proponent of green living. And, I want every one of us to ask the question – how green is my company? I am not talking about celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. I am talking about |
| Posted @ March 28th, 2008 by maha
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U.S. Supreme Court declines challenge to retiree benefits rule
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| Retirement benefits has been a hot topic in recent times. This news adds to the fire. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) protects individuals who are 40 years of age |
| Posted @ March 26th, 2008 by anandgad
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Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
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Currently reading "Critical". Very gripping and thought provoking indeed!!!
Here is a preview of the book by Publishers Weekly
The U.S. |
| Posted @ March 25th, 2008 by anandgad
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How healthy lifestyle imitates chess!!
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How healthy lifestyle imitates chess!!
I just finished this book and all I can say is "WOW!". One might think that this book |
| Posted @ March 14th, 2008 by anandgad
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Should doctors be paid to send emails to patients?
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| This is an issue that many doctors have been complaining about for the past 2-3 years. The complaint is that they need to be paid extra for sending emails to patients. What is |
| Posted @ March 6th, 2008 by anandgad
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"Balance Billing" ruling
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This is in reference to the recent ruling by the Department of Managed Health Care in California. To understand what the ruling is, let’s see what “Balance Billing” is all about.
Whenever a doctor provides a service, he/she can set |
| Posted @ March 4th, 2008 by anandgad
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Personal Health Records: My personal problem.
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I’ve never really realized the benefits of a Personal Health Record until I switched jobs earlier this year. In my previous employment, I had great coverage and all my information was stored in an Electronic Medical Record (EMR). I |
| Posted @ March 3rd, 2008 by anandgad
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Marketing with Social Media/Networking Sites
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| Most of the marketers are using customary marketing techniques like run-of-site advertising, microsites to shove the messages into these networks.Social Networking Websites:
In addition to our custom marketing techniques, we need to |
| Posted @ January 23rd, 2008 by pratheeba
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Algebra and Geometry
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Algebra and Geometry
It is always interesting to note in |
| Posted @ July 19th, 2007 by sridhar
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Vista I/O - Whats New??
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I was listening to a webcast in Channel 9 on Windows Vista I/O
Narayanan Ganapathy amazed me when he said there are priorities for I/O in Windows Vista, like we have thread priorities. I hope all the indexing services |
| Posted @ July 19th, 2007 by sridhar
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Agile! Agile! – Where Art Thou - Part 2 (Agile Workplaces)
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I said in my last blog post...
"In the next part in this Agile series, I will delve more into what constitutes those SCRUM techniques and methods which create the controlled chaos atmosphere."
"Atmosphere" is one of the key |
| Posted @ July 19th, 2007 by sridhar
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Fundamentals of Cellular Communications - 1
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There are two popular mechanisms which are used to transmit data/voice through available frequency spectrum. They are CDMA and GSM. I will try to explain these technologies using analogies. Initially we had something called FDMA (FDMA - I think |
| Posted @ July 19th, 2007 by sridhar
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Vista Memory Management - Super Fetch
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I think Microsoft has been doing serious thinking in the area of OS performance and they better be as they add complex features which eat up performance. This is evident in the latest super cool feature called Super Fetch |
| Posted @ July 19th, 2007 by sridhar
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Agile! Agile! – Where Art Thou - Part 1
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These days there is a lot of hue and cry about a new model of development called "Agile". The name "Agile" doesn't give any clue as to the fundamental structure of this methodology unlike Waterfall Model or Spiral Model |
| Posted @ July 19th, 2007 by sridhar
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Google Personalized Search
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If you stay logged into anyone of the Google features like gmail, your search history will be accumulated by Google. So, if you start searching Google when you are logged in, google |
| Posted @ July 17th, 2007 by pratheeba
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Press Release Tips
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- Send press releases on Tuesday - Wednesday's or Monday Afternoon (Sat and Sun are holidays. So, They'll be busy on monday. Thats why we are sending our press
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| Posted @ July 17th, 2007 by pratheeba
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RATER Model to Improve the Customer Service
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RATER model is invented by Leonard Berry. He identified this five quality customer service dimensions. Reliability, Assurance, Tangibles, Empathy, and Responsiveness. Nowadays, B2C businesses are taking care of this model. But, this will work out for all businesses such |
| Posted @ July 17th, 2007 by pratheeba
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HIMSS 2009 in all its grandeour
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| Posted @ December 31st, 1969 by anandgad
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