The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has begun to address deficient clinical IT usability. A PDF with presentations on the topic from the recent NIST conference on HIT usability is here (warning: very large, 26 MB). There is a critical “meta-issue” that’s being ignored regarding usability, though, yet it is the elephant in the living room.
See the article here:
The National Program for Healthcare IT in the U.S., and the Elephant in the Living Room
Over at the HIStalk blog (a blog whose owner remains anonymous, and who uses an ISP that does not reveal information that could be used to identify him, apparently out of fear of retaliation for controversial stories he posts), the following appeared: Monday Morning Update 7/12/10 From Holy Smoke : “Re: Cerner. Misidentification incidents have been reported with Cerner PowerChart and Millenium in hospitals in Indiana, Michigan, and others after a Cerner upgrade
tags: Late For Work, jobs, employment, humor, funny, comedy, fucking hilarious, social observation, streaming video It’s hot, you were up late drinking with your friends and now it’s Monday morning — again! Unlike some videos that I share with you, this one gets straight to the point — a point that we’ve all achieved at some time during our lives. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post…
Originally posted here:
Late For Work
I’ve been thinking about Hakkarainen’s Law of Great Events ™ lately. The law, briefly restated, is that, in any great event, such as a death, wedding, divorce, or other crisis, someone close to you will unexpectedly let you down
Read more here:
More on Great Laws
-originally posted on The Recovery Room 20 July 2010 I’ve finally succeeded in getting one of my articles published with a news organization. AlterNet has been kind enough to run this piece, Disaster on a Small Scale: How the Gulf Spill’s Devastation Works Its Way From Plankton to Pelicans. I’m currently working on another story for them that is slated to come out some time in the first week of August
Read the original here:
Dispersing Devestation
To seal more car deals, Chevrolet UK looked to arm its salesmen with the perfect weapon of confidence: an unstoppable handshake. Here’s the secret they received from Geoffrey Beattie, Head of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester: PH (Perfect Handshake)= √ (e^2 + ve^2)(d^2) + (cg + dr)^2 + π{(4^2)}^2 We hope (and suspect) the training posters and equation, supposedly meant for Chevrolet-sellers, are meant for publicity and are not a real attempt to improve customer relations….
Read more:
Danger! Car Salesmen Now in Possession of “Perfect Handshake” Equation | Discoblog
Many people who embark on professional cooking careers, or just interested in having an experience in an French kitchen, are interested in coming to France to do an internship, called a stage . I posted on Twitter, to find out how people got their stages in France.
Continued here:
Doing an Internship in France
Basic Cooking Techniques Students Chopping Away at their Mushrooms Over in the office, we can always smell when there is a Basic Cooking Techniques Vacation in session. Today, and throughout the week, the class will be learning kitchen knowledge from knife skills to sautéing. When I walked into the kitchen just few moments ago, the aroma was so delightful it made me want to share the recipe.
Follow this link:
For the Love of Mushrooms, Stuffed Mushrooms, That Is.
I can’t speak for anyone else who blogs here at Science-Based Medicine, but there’s one thing I like to emphasize to people who complain that we exist only to “bash ‘alternative’ medicine.” We don’t. We exist to champion medicine based on science against all manner of dubious practices. Part of that mandate involves understanding and accepting that science-based medicine is not perfect.
More:
The Texas Medical Board acts in the case of the Winkler County whistle blowing nurses
In terms of newspaper readers versus online readers, it is no longer a question of why online marketing has become a staple and print media is losing ground. The real question is why online marketing is working so well
Visit link:
Advancement of Online Marketing
Here is a great recipe from Pat Storer at Skinny Dippin : Ingredients : 11-part goats milk powder 3 parts dry milk 1 part citric acid 1 part cornstarch 1/2 part borax 2 parts Epsom salts 2 parts baking soda 2 parts rock salt crystals Few drops of FDA color Directions : Blend all in a Ziploc. For each 2 oz. of mix, I put in 1 ml.
See the original post:
Fizzling Milk Bath
Did you miss the news headlines on TV this morning just because you had to drop kids to school and then drove straight to office? Well, you can launch Mundu on your computer (or mobile phone) and catch up your favorite TV news channels from India anytime, anywhere live. All you need is an Internet connection or a data plan if you are planning to watch TV on your phone.
See more here:
Enjoy Indian TV Live on your PC or Mobile Phone
Celebrated jewelry designer Neil Lane and Kay Jewelers today announce the launch of Neil Lane Bridal™, a collection of 36 vintage-inspired engagement and wedding rings. Each ring is designed by Neil Lane and hand crafted, assembled, and finished by skilled artisans, with diamonds that were hand selected by Kay, said the press release. “We are thrilled to launch the new Neil Lane Bridal collection at Kay Jewelers,” said Mark Light, President and CEO, Kay Jewelers.
See the original post here:
Neil Lane Debuts Bridal Line with Kay Jewelers
This Friday I will be chatting with Aaron Kannowski, the Marketing, PR & Voice Specialist at Working Solutions, a company that pioneered the virtual call center in 1996 using home-based agents. Working Solutions has thousands of people working from home as independent contractors
See the original post here:
Work at home job listings for 7/19/2010
Apparently hijacking other business' domains isn't enough for NewsDaily7.com – the video below shows that News7Daily.com is actually running multiple Adwords accounts! These NewsDaily7.com shenanigans are quite interesting considering tGoogle suspended numerous Adwords accounts due to a “poor user experience”, yet NewsDaily7.com doesn't seem to be having any issues with their “quality score”. I wonder how THESE folk feel about ol' NewsDaily7: Adwords Account Suspensions If You're Struggling To Make Money Online – Click Here To Watch This Free Video And FINALLY Get Answers To All Of Your Questions About Making Money Online
Read more:
NewsDaily7.com running multiple Adwords accounts!
Science fiction is often associated with depictions of technology which, to quote Arther Clarke’s third law, is “so advanced that it seems like magic to us.” But science fiction’s other side is less about techno-gizmology and more about pushing us to think about what it is to be human. It asks what it would be like to live with different social norms (think of the group family structure in Caprica, or the androgynous society of Ursula Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness), different notions of ide…
See original here:
When Sci-Fi Plays Play With Your Identity | Science Not Fiction
In what is surely a contender for the photo next to the “business as usual in the blogosphere” entry in the Wiktionary, a (male) blogger has posted a list of the sexiest (all-but-one female) scientists (using photos of those scientists obtained from the web without any indication that he had also obtained proper permission to use those photos in his post), and now the blogger says he wants to know what could possibly be wrong about making such a post. Because no one has ever taken the time t…
See original here:
Save us from the armchair philosopher with a blog.
Every issue of Nature Genetics is packed full of them, and they’re the basis for the risk predictions offered by every personal genomics company – but how do you make sense of a genome-wide association study? How can you tell the difference between results you can trust and those you should treat with caution?Over at Genomes Unzipped, Jeff Barrett (who’s authored more GWAS than most) explains some of the key features of these studies, and what to keep an eye out for when interpreting their re…
For those of you who enjoy our blog and have an interest in HR and employment law related topics and news, Karen Michelle Credie also has a useful blog. If you would like to take a look, here’s the link: http://hrconsultantlancashire.blogspot.com/ . Karen is an HR consultant with many years of HR experience and provides HR support and advice to businesses throughout the North West region.
See the article here:
Employment Law and HR/Personnel Blogs
FedEx Ground has settled a case with the Attorney General of Massachusetts for misclassifying its delivery drivers. FedEx Ground classifies its drivers as independent contractors, instead of employees, which results in substantial cost-savings to FedEx Ground because under such an arrangement its drivers bear FedEx Ground’s overhead costs, among other things
Continued here:
Massachusetts Attorney General Recovers $3 Million from FedEx Ground