...btw: if you have access to RMS (Rights Management Servics) under your office deployment you can find the functions here:

On the 9th September the New York Times featured an article entitled “Patient Data Posted Online in Major Breach of Privacy” (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/09breach.html?_r=1 ) in which it documented the unfortunate exposure...

Dots = circle = System.Windows.Shapes.Ellipse The code to draw the number of required circles to the provided number of the guess took me quite awhile to get right. The reason was purely human - I was an idiot. I forgot that I was working with Silverlight...

In my last post I got the latest Windows Phone 7 unit – a HTC HD7. Since then I have been trying to get back my developer mojo to build an application. I have finally done this and submitted it to Marketplace about 14 hours ago…as part of...

It was a bit like Christmas in November here in the office yesterday with the release of Windows Phone 7 to the geeks. Nearly everyone in Public Sector chose the HTC-HD7 – their reasons are their own, but for me I like and trust HTC and now have 3 models...

I have just started a new role as the Market Development Manager for Health in APAC and it is time to add to the focus of the blog accordingly. To date I have been getting across the new role which combines the technology with partner capabilities to...

Several years ago I wrote a turbo Pascal 3 based HL7 v2.X parser. I have since learnt a lot but the basic parsing code has always worked. So, now that I am working at Microsoft I have redone the code yet again - this time in C# and WPF and released it...

After a small hiatus the Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator is about to be released. There were a few procedural delays but nothing stands in its way of usage now. Will keep you posted.

I am in the USA at present and the news is full of Healthcare! The latest breaking news is the positive vote on the Healthcare Bill here. It passed 219 (for) to 212 (against) votes – pretty tight I think. At $900bn US it is going to be a very interesting...

When I joined Microsoft in this role 3 years ago as of last month I was pretty much an AWT/Swing UI developer. I also did a lot with Delphi UI development with the version 7 RAD environment – starting with the TurboVision UI of Turbo Pascal (showing my...

For those that have not seen this; the new version of OfficeDoctor is about to be released. The notice is on the MSCUI web site here . I am really excited by this especially with the way in which people are asking for it. I am looking forward to writing...

I have been working for Microsoft for just over 3 years now and in that time have become deeply involved in sales dealing with BizTalk and SQL Server (as well as Office, Dynamics, Desktop, Server, Hyper-V, System Centre... – go figure). In doing so I...

I talk to a lot of IT people and clinicians in my travels and it would probably come as no surprise to anyone in the field of Health IT that clinical people and IT people do not regularly see eye-to-eye. What surprises me is the (often) level of underground...

I did an experiment in social media at HIMSS USA this year. It didn’t work out as I thought it would. I had planned to ‘cast and blog the entire time (I even tried to twitter) but I found that one key thing you need is an internet connection. You also...

<violins>I am sitting here with my grey matter dribbling out of my ears. Not a pretty mental picture I’ll grant you but relatively accurate in presentation. The thing I think we in these positions do not pay sufficient homage to is the effect that...

Say what you will but MS Surface is cool and HIT is getting cooler with the surface interface influence. Not only does it give people a more human interaction method – reminiscent of our childhood (grab, push, throw) but it gives us a new way to interact...

I just realised that I did not reset my computer calendar to USA time. This has led to the issue of my posts for the 28th Feb 2010 clocking over to 1 March 2010 while sitting in the rooms here at HIMSS USA! btw: here is a gloStream screen cut.

“gloStream” is an innovative company that demonstrated an extensible solution framework for clinical content generation and management. Yaw Kwakye , Chief Software Architect, gloStream, Nasik, Maharestra, India, presented a succinct presentation on the...

OfficeDoctor has been revamped and is now the Clinical Documentation Solution Accelerator (CDSA)! This is big news for me as I am a firm believer in the use of commoditized software in healthcare and Office is the epitome of this capability. I am watching...

Just in the session “ Voice-assisted Care: Taking Usability & Care to the Next Level” with Amar Kapadia , Director, Acute Care, Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Pittsburgh, PA A very interesting use of voice interaction within a care exosystem. Amar...

For those interested the presentations can be found at http://www.mshug.org/events/exchange_Feb2010.aspx ENJOY!

“We are going to have data coming out of our ears” - Mark VanKooy , Medical Director of Informatics, Information Services, Virtua, Gibbsboro, NJ (Master Black belt in Six Sigma) Mark spoke about their use of Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS). I...

Creating quite a buzz at MS-HUG was the announcement, by the Health Solutions Group (HSG), of Project “Miami”. This product sits within the current offerings of HSG Technorati Tags: HIMSS USA , HSG , patient centric Amalga and HealtVault to bridge the...

Some of this is from a talk I did recently in an APAC country. The discussion was very lively and interesting and I got grilled with many aspects of what was discussed. For those of you that attended THANK YOU! and I look forward to more discussion and...

I have just been installing SQL Server 2009 onto my Windows 7 (Ultimate) and Server 2008 (Hyper-V) machines and got a message about the install unable to find a window handle and an issue notice with SQL Server install on those platforms. It turns out...