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Epic Systems, Epic Certification, and the future of EMRs
Well, I just finished my second round of classes in the Epic EMR system. The first time, I trained in MyEpic/Radar and Reporting Workbench – and I successfully passed the certification exams for these two modules (for lack of a … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Information Technology
Tagged Cyclops, Electronic medical record, EMR, Epic, Forbes, Medical record, Mordor
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Free Online Public Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography
Free Online Health Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography By William Murakami-Brundage 1st edition, February 2012 There exists a shortage of usable data sets and public health data. Whether your interest is biomedical engineering, health informatics, data mining, or public health … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, Education, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama, The Cloud
Tagged Annotated bibliography, CaBIG, California, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS Data Compendium, data mining, Medicaid, Medicare, National Cancer Institute, Open data, United States
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What Does a Data Analyst Do?
What does a data analyst do? As a data analyst, someone typically handles data coming from or going into a data warehouse or business intelligence system. They compile the reports, verify the quality (integrity), and use the data to assist executive- … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Education, Information Technology
Tagged Big Data, Business intelligence, business intelligence system, Data analysis, data mining, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, database application design, database management systems, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Oracle Database, query language sql, RapidMiner, relational database management, Relational database management system, relational database management systems, SQL
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Academic Experiences in Computer Information Systems: Associate vs. Graduate Education
I had the chance to catch up with my brother-in-law over the weekend, and cross-compare notes about our educational paths. I am finishing my Masters in Information Systems (MSIS), and he is half of the way through his Associates in … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Education, Information Technology
Tagged Associates, collecting unemployment benefits, Commonwealth of Independent States, Community college, computer information systems, Doctor of Philosophy, Drexel, Drexel University, E-learning, Education, educational paths, employment dept, GPA, Grade (education), Information systems, local community college, Masters, mlt program, MSIS, Oregon, Portland Community College, United States
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The ‘Drunken Master’: A Prototype Case-Based Reasoning System
This shows the system that I have been working on. It extracts the data from an API feed, parses it and cleans it, and then feeds it into Protege, at which point a case-based reasoning system is built around the … Continue reading
Visualizing World Bank Indicators: Research Poster
At this point, I kind of forget where my research is going, and also where it has been. Anyways, I will send this out on the Internetz for anyone whom is interested. It is the corresponding presentation to the KML … Continue reading
Google Earth, World Bank Data, and KML Files
I thought that I would make available the KML files that I created for several categories of World Bank data indicators. Please note that the data was available only due to the kindness of the World Bank’s open information initiative … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Media Sharing, Resource-a-rama
Tagged Earth, Google, Google Docs, Google Earth, Keyhole Markup Language, KML, Searching, SourceForge, World Bank
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Leveling Up in IT
What is the difference between a junior and senior position? One pat answer is $20,000. If you are going into IT, a huge question is probably ‘how do I get to the top of my field?’ Well, IT has a few unique characteristics that make it … Continue reading
Digital Libraries, Content, and Structure
Digital libraries are a major element in the formation of the Internet. For those of you whom don’t remember, originally the Internet just had these index pages full of links, with little rhyme or reason to them – this was … Continue reading
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Working in Healthcare IT
Part of the appeal of working in IT is that there should be a constant stiving to learn and excel. Programming and technology depends on being cutting-edge, staying ahead of the curve. As someone who works at Symantec once told … Continue reading →