I was one of the Student Finalists at AMIA 2008 this year, and I was very impressed by some of the other finalist presentations. One of my favorites was by Steven Bedrick at OHSU. He wrote a Facebook application called Medline Publications. The idea is that each user lists their Medline publications for the app. [...]
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Social Networking for AMIA 2008?
October 22nd, 2008 No Comments
I am attending AMIA 2008 this year on Sunday November 9, presenting a paper on using a medical language processor to judge a patient’s smoking status. I am also in the student finalist competition Sunday morning, so onlookers have not one but two opportunities to hear me talk. A recent Clinical Cases post noted that [...]
Walking Intensive Care Patients Early
October 15th, 2008 No Comments
I thought this was a great picture in JAMA recently. It shows a patient on mechanical ventilation via ET tube and with an arterial line walking in the ICU. Admittedly the patient has a lot of help; there is at least one nurse and one respiratory technician. However, this was not even considered possible in [...]
Tags: endotracheal · hopkins · icu · jama
How to Install WP-SuperCache on Pair
October 12th, 2008 No Comments
Recently Matt Cutts discussed difficulties he had with WP-SuperCache on his Pair Networks hosting account. I use PairLite, which is hosting from the same company with less support and no SLA. I love Pair because they provide shell access to FreeBSD and an Apache webserver. The problem Matt runs into is that WP-SuperCache, like many [...]
Tags: cache · pair · wordpress · wp-supercache
Finally! Best Sync Yet for Google Calendar to iPhone
October 12th, 2008 No Comments
I keep a network-accessible calendar with Google Calendar. I also carry an iPhone. Here’s what I want: Instant sync of calendar data when I make changes to either the iPhone or Google Calendar. Waiting until I dock with iTunes is too long. Availability of calendar data when the iPhone is out of internet range. I [...]
Switched! (to Google Chrome)
October 12th, 2008 No Comments
Matt Cutts recently wrote a nice piece listing the advantages of Google Chrome as a primary web browser. I’ve been using it for the last few weeks and I’m sold. Why? Chrome feels faster. There is less disk thrashing than when I use Firefox, especially when I leave the browser open for long periods. I [...]
Tags: chrome · firefox · javascript
How to Enroll in the Prescription Data Restriction Program
October 6th, 2008 No Comments
I noticed in this week’s AMNews that the AMA is running an ad encouraging physicians to enroll in the Prescription Data Restriction Program (PDRP) which sets a flag in the AMA’s Masterfile instructing licensees to not share your prescription data. The AMA itself does not collect prescription data, but other organizations get dumps from drugstores [...]
Tags: ama · masterfile · pdrp · prescription
Added Google Reader Feed
September 27th, 2008 No Comments
I use Google Reader to keep up with both technical and medical blogs. Sometimes I want to flag a post as worth reading, but don’t have the time to write a blog post about it. In this case the “Share” feature is great. I now have the Shared Items listed to the right. Setting this [...]
How To Compress HTTP Responses with mod_php
July 14th, 2008 3 Comments
For many years, I have been a fan of using compression for HTTP responses. Netscape (and I believe Internet Explorer) have supported the “Content-Encoding: gzip” header for over ten years. In the old days there was some concern over the CPU demand of streaming compression, but modern CPUs are so fast that this is no [...]
Where can I get all the SSL root certificates?
July 7th, 2008 1 Comment
When using Java, or curl, or other programs to fetch data via SSL, I frequently run into problems with servers that have SSL certificates from a “new” (within the last 10 years) signature authority: $ curl -v https://api.smugmug.com/ […] curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify [...]
Tags: certificate · curl · hack · ssl
