MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'backup'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:46 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159283&cid=t_111995_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F42OlfYrK2Vg%2F This is the start of a new series of posts that I plan to do over the next week or two. I’ll probably try and space them out so that they don’t overwhelm anyone. However, it’s going to be a series of common EMR implementation issues that I hear over and over again. This series was prompted by a post on HIStalk by Inga where she talked about her visit to the doctor and his complaints about his EHR implementation. As I read through the list of complaints, I realized that they were all complaints that I’d heard before. If I’ve heard them all before, then they must be pretty common and worth talking about more. Ideally the discussions in this EMR implementation series will help practices and doctors that are implementing an EMR to avoid these issues. I also know t... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159283 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:45:47 +0100 5159283 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5107652&cid=t_111995_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2011%2F07%2F31%2Fweekend-twitter-roundup%2F A quick look at some interesting EMR and healthcare IT related tweets I saw this weekend. This was timely after my recent posts about backup and disaster recovery. #bbpBox_96998476478558208 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0000ff; }#bbpBox_96998476478558208 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } Don’t know how computer (EMR) dependent you are until the office power goes out for 2 hrs. Sheesh! (we’re back on now)…. July 29, 2011 10:40 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite @drmikesevilla Mike Sevilla, MD Interesting comparison for sure. #bbpBox_97644147334320128 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_97644147334320128 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } Parallels w/paper vs EMR?? Fascinating MT @KentBottles: http://ow.ly/5Rrgi Paper calendar vs. electronic ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5107652 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:10:59 +0100 5107652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4664420&cid=t_111995_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FfeK7sI89W9o%2F Image by re-ality via Flickr It’s World Backup Day: Here’s How to Avoid Inevitable Disasters Kevin Purdy — World Backup Day isn’t an official holiday, but it is a day of remembrance—as in, if you don’t back up your important data, you will be remembering one day how stupid you were for not doing so. Here are the deals offered today, along with our recommendations on how and where to back up your important stuff. via It’s World Backup Day: Here’s How to Avoid Inevitable Disasters. Filed under: electronic life Tagged: backup, Remote backup service, Site Management (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4664420 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:16:47 +0100 4664420 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4355845&cid=t_111995_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2FlpUl5_FYuYs%2F $1,000 reward offered for stolen cancer research laptop: Medical researchers in Oklahoma are offering a no-questions-asked $1,000 reward for the return of a stolen laptop that contains years of research on prostate cancer. Sook Shin lost the 13-inch white MacBook last Sunday after thieves smashed the window of the car she shares with husband, Ralf Jankecht, and made off with the laptop. Data on the machine was not backed up. So, you never backup your data or have an extra copy, and, at the same time, value “years” of research just one thousand dollars. Pathetic. (Source: Blind.Scientist) Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4355845 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:03:59 +0100 4355845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4168233&cid=t_111995_180_f&fid=38610&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.productivity501.com%2Fspideroak-storage-and-backup-review%2F8405%2F SpiderOak offers a service similar to Dropbox.  However, where Dropbox seems to be concentrating on ease of use and simplicity, SpiderOak seems focused on creating powerful software with many different options. The downside is that SpiderOak isn’t something you are probably going to have your grandma setup for herself.  The upside is that it lets you do all kinds of things that aren’t possible with DropBox.DropBox gives you a folder that you can sync across computers.  This works well and provides a very simple mental paradigm.  ”I put something in the folder on Computer A and it shows up on that folder on Computer B. Spider Oak lets you backup arbitrary folders and lets you specify certain folders that you want to sync.  For example,  you can tell SpiderOak to back... Productivity501 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4168233 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:52:39 +0100 4168233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3885498&cid=t_111995_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F20%2Fbackup-your-citeulike-library-using-mongodb-and-ruby%2F Well, that was easy. #!/usr/bin/ruby require "rubygems" require "mongo" require "json/pure" require "open-uri" db = Mongo::Connection.new.db('citeulike') col = db.collection('articles') j = JSON.parse(open("http://www.citeulike.org/json/user/neils").read) j.each do |article| article[:_id] = article['article_id'] col.save(article) end Filed under: programming, ruby Tagged: api, backup, citeulike, json, mongodb (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3885498 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:50:57 +0100 3885498 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3335532&cid=t_111995_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FNulu9_VRvGc%2Fthat-is-not-pocketable.php Chapstick is pocketable.  A small swiss-army knife is pocketable.  A mini-flashlight is pocketable.  Insulin pens are not pocketable.  I have been using an insulin pump for a long time.  Before I started pumping, they did not have these giant portable all-in-one "solutions".  These are easier to carry around and use than the old vial and syringe, I admit, but they are big.  Too big.  I started carrying these around recently.  When I was working I would often drive very far from home (300-400 miles), and I wanted some backup that I could rely on.  In the winter I can't keep my insulin and symlin from freezing when stored in the car, and I'm too absent minded to remember some sort of pouch or package of backup stuff in and out, so I settled.&... Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3335532 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:59:43 +0100 3335532 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3311781&cid=t_111995_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2F3M_xto1o6V4%2F I’ve been seeing a number of new offsite backup services for EMR software. They are becoming quite sophisticated and are an option that I think many doctors offices should consider. I know that in one doctors office I setup a USB hard drive which they could take home with them in order to have some semblance of an off site backup. This is far from perfect and even harder to secure the right way. Not something that most doctors offices will want to take on alone. However, the real problem with this type of “off site” backup is that they too often forget to take the backup offsite. They don’t verify that the backup was done. I’m sure there’s more, but you get the picture. Seems like many of these off site backup services provide a really great service that... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3311781 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:08:50 +0100 3311781 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3045067&cid=t_111995_180_f&fid=38610&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.productivity501.com%2Ftuesdays-tip-effective-backups%2F207%2F There are few things that can ruin your productivity like losing the hard drive on your computer. Here are a few tips that work well for me when it comes to backing up my computer. Take some time to imagine the worst case scenario and how you would handle it. For example, what would you do if your laptop were dropped? What would you need to do if it were stolen? Make sure you have some type of off-site backup. I put a copy of important files on a DVD and put it in a bank lockbox. I only do this once or twice a year, but it gives me something to go back to, if necessary. Use an external hard drive for backup. This is usually a lot faster than backing up to DVDs or CDs. The easier a backup is to do, the more often you’ll do it. Create a bootable backup. My primary backup is done by c... Productivity501 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3045067 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0100 3045067 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2641353&cid=t_111995_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FP-D63fLjKWs%2F Traffic at EMR and HIPAA usually slows down on the weekend and so I try to keep my weekend posts just a little bit lighter than the rest of the week. Often that means I talk about some technical thing since at the end of the day I’m just a techguy. Don’t worry though, I’m not planning on getting really technical here. There are plenty of technical blogs out there for that discussion. Instead I just want to highlight what might be the most important thing you set up when implementing an EMR: your EMR backup. However, the problem with backing up your EMR is that it’s not like something you buy on TV where you simply “set it and forget it.” Well, I guess you can, but you do so at great risk. Do you know how often your EMR backs up? Where is your EMR backup ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2641353 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:12:14 +0100 2641353 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2474091&cid=t_111995_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FyKdCYfWW3Ok%2F So now not only did my logic board fry itself on Monday afternoon, the local Apple store — the only one in a two hour driving radius — was closed until today for remodeling. When I arrived there shortly before opening time, I joined an actual crowd of us geeks hanging around the front of the store. The employees streamed out of the back rooms on the dot of 10:00 and greeted us with applause. And so, I am now happy with the next incarnation of my computer on my lap. One lesson I have learned from this is: always back up your system to an external source! I have been backing up my laptop with Time Machine to an external, portable disk drive. That is what saved me. I could rebuild my system with all of my programs and documents intact. If I had backed the thing up to another sector of my ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2474091 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:01:17 +0100 2474091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2150752&cid=t_111995_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F02%2Fbrief-notes-on-export-from-friendfeed%2F During discussion of the ISMB 2008 room, Thomas asks: “Does FF really provide long-term archival?” Lars points out that it’s as permanent as anything else on the Web, Dorothea points out that FriendFeed offer no guarantees and Deepak discusses the FriendFeed API. Question: how useful is the FriendFeed API as a tool to, for example, archive a FriendFeed room? We can access the ISMB 2008 room via the API using a URL like this: curl “http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/room/ismb-2008?format=xml” > ismb.xml We can also retrieve items in other formats by substituting “xml” in the URL with one of: json, atom, rss. Note that where a FriendFeed post contains a “N more comments” link, those comments are actually present on the page and revealed... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2150752 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:01:45 +0100 2150752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1791700&cid=t_111995_93_f&fid=36200&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.jammedph.com%2Fthree-services-to-help-you-back-up-your-data%2F If you’re like many and have had to go through a plethora of reformatting processes (mainly the case for Windows users), then you might be interested in three different services to help you back up your data in numeruous ways. 1. MozyHome Mozy, one of the leading companies in online and remote storage/backup offers an excellent free service to those who are interested in backing up their important computer files to Mozy’s servers. What is most interesting about this service is that they provide you 2GB of storage to begin with, and for every 4 friends you refer to the service, you will gain an additional gigabyte for FREE! To me, that sounds like a more than generous deal and even if you don’t refer friends, 2GB of storage is enough for many of your important documents a... Jammed: Full into Capacity blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1791700 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:11:37 +0100 1791700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1250104&cid=t_111995_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fzotero-library-re-visioned%2F I have been wanting to use Zotero now for a while for my reference library but could never work out how back up my library using subversion. My life is contained within subversion, I do not know how I could have possibly survived before all my work; code, presentations, papers, images and not to mention my thesis, is all perfectly backed up and re-visioned and floating happily in the cloud available to me from any machine. Zotero installs itself inside the firefox profile which makes it difficult to revision within the C:\\my-subversion” folder. What I decided to do was to create a new firefox profile (instructions here) within my-subversion folder then install zotero creating: C:\\my-subversion\firefoxprofile\zotero I then only added the zotero folder to my subversion repository. Yo... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1250104 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:18:24 +0100 1250104 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1082950&cid=t_111995_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2007%2F12%2F10%2Fibackup%2F No, this is not the new installment to the iPod series. Because we’re in a fast evolving Information age, most businesses have extended their enterprise online. Financial and communication records generated in everyday business transactions are usually done electronically. And for that, businesses would be in great need of online backup and storage facility. For such services, one could try IBackup, a leading online backup service for small businesses. It features automated scheduled backups, drive letter access to backup data and easy access via browser. It also supports Open File backups, a requirement for backing up “in use” data such as Outlook files. Other features include SQL server, Exchange and Oracle database hot backups. IBackup has won several awards including PC World (20... Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1082950 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:24:46 +0100 1082950 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=541290&cid=t_111995_113_f&fid=34898&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbillkosloskymd.typepad.com%2Fwirelessdoc%2F2007%2F04%2Fweb_worker_dail.html My experience in skydiving has inprinted on me the need to have reliable backup mechanisms in the case when the eventual does happen. This post has some great ideas for the road warrior. The commenters have some good tips, too.I do use a password protected U3 USB 2 GB thumb drive. The idea to put all your vital wallet information on it seems like this could be a lifesaver. You could also put jpegs of your passport, and other IDs on it. You might even copy this info onto a second thumb drive and give it to a trusted friend or relative.Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Emergency Survival Kit «Technorati Tags: Web Worker Daily, U3, backup (Source: Wireless Doc) Wireless Doc blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=541290 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:11:09 +0100 541290