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To PDF or Not PDF, Part 2
July 24, 2008 11:22 AM
by
Scott Warner
I gave a presentation in which the question of a "paperless" laboratory came up. "I'm waiting for the older people in my lab to retire," a twenty-something man confessed. Us geezers don't cotton to them new fangled punch card thingamabobs , apparently.
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To PDF or Not PDF, Part 1
July 14, 2008 10:20 AM
by
Scott Warner
At a recent management meeting, the topic of policy and procedure manuals came up. When I said I was buying new binders for all departments, the response was incredulous. "You mean you don't have yours online yet ?" In fact, we do, as PDF files on a Microsoft
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Tech Support
June 12, 2008 4:27 PM
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Scott Warner
You may have heard Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as " Click and Clack " of National Public Radio's Car Talk . Their show is irreverent, informative and just what a person with car trouble needs. It is everything good tech support should strive to
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Read This, Read That
May 22, 2008 2:22 PM
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Scott Warner
My oldest son has become an avid reader, bringing back my own memories of reading Way Down Cellar , The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet , and The Phantom of Walkaway Hill . So, when he asked me one day why I don't read--as in novels--my answer
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The Speed of Information
May 12, 2008 2:02 PM
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Scott Warner
My old boss used to say, "Any delay is too long." He was talking about programming iterate functions on a computer, but it's true for many things. We all hate to wait. But what are we waiting for? In a healthcare system, the speed of information is crucial
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Quick and Dirty, Part Four
March 25, 2008 10:04 AM
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Scott Warner
We've seen that the lowly batch file can help capture quality data with little programming. Let's examine how this batch file works. Here it is: @ECHO OFF ECHO 1 - Smith ECHO 2 - Jones ECHO 3 - Doe ECHO . SET /P CHOICE=Enter choice SET /P ACCT=Enter account
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Quick and Dirty, Part Three
March 19, 2008 12:44 PM
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Scott Warner
Recently, 3-hour long evening classes were locally offered to managers to learn Microsoft Word. That seems excessive for a fancy typewriter, except that Word 2003 for Dummies is 432 pages. Technology meant to save us so much work shouldn't be this complicated.
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Quick and Dirty, Part Two
March 17, 2008 12:15 PM
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Scott Warner
(Read Part One .) The beauty of a quick and dirty solution is its simplicity. I'll admit it isn't always preferable--many times it amounts to a hack--but if it works, it works. Data mining problems don't necessarily need cumbersome, complex or paperwork
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Quick and Dirty, Part One
March 13, 2008 1:21 PM
by
Scott Warner
As a programmer on the coast of Maine 20 years ago, I liked a quick and dirty solution--the inelegant, simplistic, but often workable idea. Scientists call this lex parsimoniae or Occam's Razor (after a 14 th century English logician), which states the
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Maine's HealthInfoNet
January 31, 2008 9:45 AM
by
Scott Warner
The first statewide electronic health information system, HealthInfoNet , was recently unveiled in Maine as reported here . This is a logical application of technology, an accelerating trend of making healthcare information--including prescriptions--available
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