It has been proposed by Senator John D. Rockefeller for the development of universal medical records management software. The bill , The Health Information Technology Public Utility Act of 2009, implements a grant program for the development of open source software.
An open source code for use of medical records management would allow coders to develop it for easier more cost efficient software in the future as well as offer something free of charge for the 80 percent of practices that do not have this available to them. Standards for medical records management are very un-modern and lack the sophistication of what modern electronic medical records provide. Storage space is limited and often times creates a time barrier for employers to facilitate their patients.
Should this bill succeed and become reality, it isn't too hard to predict that medical records will be much easily transfered from practice to practiced due to it being digitalized. Many small practices have not had the resources available to purchase expensive medical software. This bill offers change to organizations that may never have had it become a reality.
There has been more then enough research into open source software to state that it is a cost efficient way to advance the technology of a selected path. In the past each open source generally had a license of use for programmers to build upon. Some open source claimed any changes to be owned by the creators of the open source while others allowed any change to be made and marketed.
The bill does not make it mandatory for anyone to use the open source software, it is simply a grant that provides a modern program available to be used, however I am curious to see if there is a negative impact in the market of medical software. I am hoping at the least patches created by private programmers will be made and marketed as a way of stimulating the economy.
It would be a great help for hospitals and health care as a whole if the only software someone needed to purchase was a quick fix based upon the practice's individual needs.
The belief is that the new software will compliment the older software by allowing more people access to electronic medical records and the old software developers the ability to use the new source integrated within their current software. The only issue i see is that EMR , electronic medical records, has in one way been a great way of having one practice stand apart from a practice of less clinical value. Because the software would become so universally accepted, there would be less definitive difference between the various practices. This in itself offers as many problems as it solves.
The bill supplies money for the project development for up to 5 years, afterwards if the project has shown signs of success it would be extended for additional time and money. Currently Medicaid is the largest and most widely used medical insurance. The bill oversees the integration of it's standards within the medicaid system.
This is a giant step towards universal health care, and i am expecting this bill to be accepted by President Obama.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
theogony of hesiod a portrait painting women as evil
I rarely get the opportunity to point fun at women lol, however today is golden. I loves my female companions and from now on anytime i have a relationship that goes wrong, i must absorb in i have known what must be known from the book of Theogony of Hesiod. Women were born to be evil and even as such i love them still for they are themselves and thus are worth loving still. My proof from the book of Theogony of Hesiod is written below none taken out of context.
"So spake Zeus in anger, whose wisdom is everlasting; and from that time he was always mindful of the trick, and would not give the power of unwearying fire to the Melian (21) race of mortal men who live on the earth. But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. And Zeus who thunders on high was stung in spirit, and his dear heart was angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray of fire. Forthwith he made an evil thing for men as the price of fire; for the very famous Limping God formed of earth the likeness of a shy maiden as the son of Cronos willed. And the goddess bright-eyed Athene girded and clothed her with silvery raiment, and down from her head she spread with her hands a broidered veil, a wonder to see; and she, Pallas Athene, put about her head lovely garlands, flowers of new-grown herbs. Also she put upon her head a crown of gold which the very famous Limping God made himself and worked with his own hands as a favour to Zeus his father. On it was much curious work, wonderful to see; for of the many creatures which the land and sea rear up, he put most upon it, wonderful things, like living beings with voices: and great beauty shone out from it.
But when he had made the beautiful evil to be the price for the blessing, he brought her out, delighting in the finery which the bright-eyed daughter of a mighty father had given her, to the place where the other gods and men were. And wonder took hold of the deathless gods and mortal men when they saw that which was sheer guile, not to be withstood by men.
For from her is the race of women and female kind: of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth. And as in thatched hives bees feed the drones whose nature is to do mischief -- by day and throughout the day until the sun goes down the bees are busy and lay the white combs, while the drones stay at home in the covered skeps and reap the toil of others into their own bellies -- even so Zeus who thunders on high made women to be an evil to mortal men, with a nature to do evil. And he gave them a second evil to be the price for the good they had: whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years, and though he at least has no lack of livelihood while he lives, yet, when he is dead, his kinsfolk divide his possessions amongst them. And as for the man who chooses the lot of marriage and takes a good wife suited to his mind, evil continually contends with good; for whoever happens to have mischievous children, lives always with unceasing grief in his spirit and heart within him; and this evil cannot be healed."
I find this amusing as it ventures far enough to state women were born and made to be evil from the start. They were given the seed to create sorrow and evil with the good of a plentiful marriage they bring the man offspring / spawn that provide his with mischievous misgivings. the man is thus fated for unceasing grief a doom set upon him by the gods themselves, so the celts did believe. What a interesting breed they were no? Burned to ash at death, choice of ending by sword, and doomed to eternal damnation by their own women. One must really wonder, if it was their choice to want to live a life with so much dark shadowed alongside it's border.
- Rory Williams
Geocities is shutting down will yahoo stock raise or drop?
Later this year yahoo's free webhosting service GeoCities will be closing permanently. All websites by the end of the year will be terminated, regardless of it being paid for or being free. This means yahoo will no longer offer any form of free webhosting service. The implications are simply put that because they no longer support free web hosting they drop even farther away from major competitor google. As such we can expect a negative outcome for their stock this year, and more importantly closer towards the end of the year. services like webs.com will become of more interest and i forsee that their stock will only raise to a great extent. Google's stock will raise to an exceptional amount at the beginning of yahoo's new conquest of paid hosting. What will be interesting is if people webcrawl and archive geocities websites and develope new websites based off the old ones no longer available? One things for certain this will have a profound impact on the internet.
New stalking tool out on the internet poses future problems?
Face.com Launches Untagged Photo Face Finder Application
sadly i had thought that untagging myself on the internet was enough to avoid my reputation from becoming harmed via job background searches. I was incorrect. There is a new tool out on the internet that is allowing both employers and individuals to gain access to photos that have been uploaded of yourself that you are tagged and untagged in. This tool uses face recognition software to find these images.
The sick thing about the application is that it allows not only you to find photos of yourself but you can use the same face recognition software to stalk other people as well. I find the idea revolting as it intrudes on personal liberties. This is yet another reason for people to be careful what images they allow people to photograph them of.
sadly i had thought that untagging myself on the internet was enough to avoid my reputation from becoming harmed via job background searches. I was incorrect. There is a new tool out on the internet that is allowing both employers and individuals to gain access to photos that have been uploaded of yourself that you are tagged and untagged in. This tool uses face recognition software to find these images.
The sick thing about the application is that it allows not only you to find photos of yourself but you can use the same face recognition software to stalk other people as well. I find the idea revolting as it intrudes on personal liberties. This is yet another reason for people to be careful what images they allow people to photograph them of.
While face recognition software isn't new, this new practical use of it is a fairly new introduction to what may become a terrible tool for cyber stalking. Up until now, untagging a photo is how you hide a photo from your Facebook friends, however with this new tool that may not be possable.
With this new software i'm sure we'll see many more cases of individual stalking each other in the future by bypassing the social networks engineering programing.
There are more than 850 million photos are uploaded every month by Facebook’s 200 million or so users, in other words if this application becomes popular you can expect to seea great deal of photos being hidden throuh hightly advanced privacy settings. No longer will we run into photographs that people only want accessable to a few friends due to this application that will pop up in the future.
This is however good news for PR managers to some extent and a nightmare for those just getting into the buisness.
What makes this particuarly bad, is the software is open source. This means some bored programmer out there will be able to universalize it and have it run on every social network as well as google image stock out there. Cached sites will be used, and perhaps if they are bored enough they will intigrate some source code from webcrawlers that invade private servers. What this means is eventually it may lead to the point where nothing is private online due to this. Any image taken of you and put online with or without your notice will be available for people using this tool. Bad news for people with social lives, the real question is how significantly will this effect the average person? Or will the people that it effects the greatest be our stars or celebrities, or people who have a social side and a professional side? To where exactly will this kind of privacy invasion end?
- Rory Williams
Computer Repair Shop responsable for releasing stolen pornagraphic photos from pop singer's property...
Something i found a bit disturbing was Popular singer Edison Chen found himself the victim of a computer repair shop gone bad. He had dropped his laptop off for repairs unaware that he would soon see himself publicized world wide in many pornographic photos stolen from his computer. Edison Chen is known for the recent movie "The Dark Knight". It's sad that someone can cut the break they might need to become more famous only to fall prey to the inhuman thoughts and wishes of people less deserving.
Sadly people will know him from one of the largest sexual scandals that have hit the Hong Kong/ Chinese film industries scene.
The scandal has sense become known as the "Edison Chen Incident," exploiting digital photographs of Chen in sexual acts with celebrities including Bobo Chan and Gillian Chung.
Police arrested eight employees at the computer repair shop responsible for the releasing of property over the internet. The police believe over a thousand images were stolen off the computer, many of which were leaked over the Internet to either forums or web sites devoted to anonymous submition for photographs dealing in pornographic material.
In many Asian countries the tabloids are much more invasive, then what we find within the united states or Europe. Sadly this scandal made it's way on the front page of tabloids for quite some time, releasing photo after photo. Some of the celebrities considered suicide after many detrimental attacks on their careers and reputation within the community.
Sadly it has only taken rumors of more videos and pictures to come for Chinese and other Asian viewers to constantly search and find more illegal material in relation to this case.
Police commissioner Tang King Shing declared possession of photographs in relation to this case is illegal and grounds for arrest after constant release of photographs was made via the Internet.
The commissioner was under review and constant interrogation by press and lawmakers as he had openly stated he would indite anyone who had downloaded the photographs. Reasonably the greatest concerns by citizens were simply that the police had taken special interest in this one case due to the victims celebrity status, and had not taken the same interest in prosecution for people with less fame.
Chen's image was tainted and hurt extremely due to his constant centering of his career around a fan base consisting of teenage women within Asia. It is a growing concern that his reputation and career may never be able to be repaired due to his cultivation of his status amongst this fan base.
Perhaps what is more concerning is that these photos may have not had the concent by the women in question. Chen has sense been removed from many upcoming features and will sadly be known for something publicly intruded on through illegal manipulation of his property.
Sadly people will know him from one of the largest sexual scandals that have hit the Hong Kong/ Chinese film industries scene.
The scandal has sense become known as the "Edison Chen Incident," exploiting digital photographs of Chen in sexual acts with celebrities including Bobo Chan and Gillian Chung.
Police arrested eight employees at the computer repair shop responsible for the releasing of property over the internet. The police believe over a thousand images were stolen off the computer, many of which were leaked over the Internet to either forums or web sites devoted to anonymous submition for photographs dealing in pornographic material.
In many Asian countries the tabloids are much more invasive, then what we find within the united states or Europe. Sadly this scandal made it's way on the front page of tabloids for quite some time, releasing photo after photo. Some of the celebrities considered suicide after many detrimental attacks on their careers and reputation within the community.
Sadly it has only taken rumors of more videos and pictures to come for Chinese and other Asian viewers to constantly search and find more illegal material in relation to this case.
Police commissioner Tang King Shing declared possession of photographs in relation to this case is illegal and grounds for arrest after constant release of photographs was made via the Internet.
The commissioner was under review and constant interrogation by press and lawmakers as he had openly stated he would indite anyone who had downloaded the photographs. Reasonably the greatest concerns by citizens were simply that the police had taken special interest in this one case due to the victims celebrity status, and had not taken the same interest in prosecution for people with less fame.
Chen's image was tainted and hurt extremely due to his constant centering of his career around a fan base consisting of teenage women within Asia. It is a growing concern that his reputation and career may never be able to be repaired due to his cultivation of his status amongst this fan base.
Perhaps what is more concerning is that these photos may have not had the concent by the women in question. Chen has sense been removed from many upcoming features and will sadly be known for something publicly intruded on through illegal manipulation of his property.
Free Law Advice?
Well holy holy, i just stumbled upon the following site meant for free advice on various topics of interest (law advice). I thought this was very cool because other then this and web MD, there are not many sites giving away information related to high priced careers. anywho the site is http://family-law.freeadvice.com/
Abolishment of Serfdom in Tibet an alternative view on the Dalai Lama
I was reading a post done in the Beijing Review (China's online publication of articles) for an interesting opinion on matters i may find of interest when i stumbled upon a gold mine of opinionated anti west views upon something i had felt was pretty clear cut before. The article in question made several references to US publications, and associated them with the term "white paper". I found this fairly unappealing as the term was a tad inappropriate, yet the topic on Tibet's abolishment of serfdom with it's country was interesting enough to stomach the blatant red curtain terms.
50 years ago the emancipation of over one million serfs in Tibet was considered a remarkable stage in the progression of Anti-Slavery, also known as Abolishonist, movements. This change was considered made mostly due to the impact that the United States Civil War made world wide.
I had no idea before that our civil war would impact not only the lives within the united states but also that of those outside and alter the history made by China's human rights development as well. The event should be known worldly as a remarkable stepping stone that paved the path of progress for not only the freedom of slaves within the united states but forced an impression on countries who stood of a alternate opinion sense feudal times.
I am highly encouraged that our great country is able to make an impact on others without forcing itself upon others with military arms. China had at one time had to halt a rebellion led by Dalai Lama anti-nationalists, and followers after the invasion and extraction of the Dalai Lama within Tibet made by Chinese troops.
Historically it is taught within the United States that the Dalai Lama was and had always had his freedom infringed upon by Chinese nationalists, however the implications by the article beset and written by the Beijing Review imply that not only were his freedoms stripped and taken by Chinese authorities for good cause, but that it was done in order to stop the progression of a large scale rebellion made and started by none other then the Dalai Lama himself.
The Dalai Lama had held the opinion that serfs should be offered freedom regardless and elected to seek military / martial means to abdicate the situation at hand. The Chinese government sought to defend national unity and as such defended their country and lead an invasion of Tibetan territory extracting the Dalai Lama from his position within the country and forcing him and his followers to be extracted to India.
Historically it is proven that liberating serfs and slaves is nothing less then progression for keeping the nation in question unified yet, its always interesting to see countries refuse based upon tradition or perhaps the more obvious being the significant impact and ill impact that could be made on a non-democratic government, despite it doing nothing but protecting basic human rights recognized internationally.
The Dalai Lama has been accused of misleading the international opinion by non other then the west as well as china. After their forced retreat from Tibetan land, the Dalai Lama has continued to sabotage the development of the country of Tibet. Western forces have been blamed for their opinion on the abolishment of feudal serfdom or emancipation of people in general. The west has held the opinion that it trespasses on human rights for years. I find it interesting none the less that this is still an idea of significant contrast depending on the geographic region. Perhaps the events held within Tibet are not nearly as clear coated as they are shown nationally and more importantly historically within school. It now appears to me that it is taught within the school systems as an opinionated matter and not as non partisan material.
Reference : Xinhua News Agency March 2, 2009
50 years ago the emancipation of over one million serfs in Tibet was considered a remarkable stage in the progression of Anti-Slavery, also known as Abolishonist, movements. This change was considered made mostly due to the impact that the United States Civil War made world wide.
I had no idea before that our civil war would impact not only the lives within the united states but also that of those outside and alter the history made by China's human rights development as well. The event should be known worldly as a remarkable stepping stone that paved the path of progress for not only the freedom of slaves within the united states but forced an impression on countries who stood of a alternate opinion sense feudal times.
I am highly encouraged that our great country is able to make an impact on others without forcing itself upon others with military arms. China had at one time had to halt a rebellion led by Dalai Lama anti-nationalists, and followers after the invasion and extraction of the Dalai Lama within Tibet made by Chinese troops.
Historically it is taught within the United States that the Dalai Lama was and had always had his freedom infringed upon by Chinese nationalists, however the implications by the article beset and written by the Beijing Review imply that not only were his freedoms stripped and taken by Chinese authorities for good cause, but that it was done in order to stop the progression of a large scale rebellion made and started by none other then the Dalai Lama himself.
The Dalai Lama had held the opinion that serfs should be offered freedom regardless and elected to seek military / martial means to abdicate the situation at hand. The Chinese government sought to defend national unity and as such defended their country and lead an invasion of Tibetan territory extracting the Dalai Lama from his position within the country and forcing him and his followers to be extracted to India.
Historically it is proven that liberating serfs and slaves is nothing less then progression for keeping the nation in question unified yet, its always interesting to see countries refuse based upon tradition or perhaps the more obvious being the significant impact and ill impact that could be made on a non-democratic government, despite it doing nothing but protecting basic human rights recognized internationally.
The Dalai Lama has been accused of misleading the international opinion by non other then the west as well as china. After their forced retreat from Tibetan land, the Dalai Lama has continued to sabotage the development of the country of Tibet. Western forces have been blamed for their opinion on the abolishment of feudal serfdom or emancipation of people in general. The west has held the opinion that it trespasses on human rights for years. I find it interesting none the less that this is still an idea of significant contrast depending on the geographic region. Perhaps the events held within Tibet are not nearly as clear coated as they are shown nationally and more importantly historically within school. It now appears to me that it is taught within the school systems as an opinionated matter and not as non partisan material.
Reference : Xinhua News Agency March 2, 2009
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