How to make your company culture work with Agile [Video]
In this screencast, we start by reviewing the company culture model created by William Schneider and then use it to understand the Agile Manifesto, the Manifest for Software Craftsman and Kanban Principles to understand what their implied cultural bias.
For more information, please see Agile Culture Series Reading Guide.
September 2011
Phabricator - Open Source Web Apps To Write, Review & Share Code
Facebook engineers rave about Phabricator, describing it with glowing terms like "okay" and "mandatory". Read more uncoerced reviews from Facebook employees and other users.
Startups like Asana, Quora, MemSQL, Mixtent and SnapGuide are currently using the product as part of their development process. Facebook too is bringing more and more of its code on to Phabricator.
The most loved features in Phabricator are Maniphest, a bug tracker/task management tracker and Diffusion, a source code browser. The entire suite of applications also includes Differential, a code review tool that allows developers to easily submit reviews to one another via a command line tool called Arc when they check in code using Git or Subversion, Phriction a wiki tool which integrates more and more with Maniphest, and a slew of other products, all designed and described in Phabricator’s unique voice.
Have you tried Phabricator for managing your software development projects? Share your thoughts in comments below.
September 2011
Electronic Health Record (EHR) Advantages [Video]
The EMR can be defined as the legal patient record created in hospitals and ambulatory environments that is the data source for the EHR. It is important to note that an EHR is generated and maintained within an institution, such as a hospital, integrated delivery network, clinic, or physician office, to give patients, physicians and other health care providers, employers, and payers or insurers access to a patient's medical records across facilities.
If you're looking to learn more on EHR check out this video produced by AllScriptsTV.
Want to learn more about some of the benefits and challenges associated with EHR?
Hear what the experts in the field of EHR says about it.
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September 2011
Presentation: Cross-platform Mobility: The Rise of Mono in the Enterprise
The mobile revolution is all about the apps, and expectations of both device capabilities and user experience have profoundly changed. Consumer owned devices are entering the workplace at an unprecedented level, and rather than the IT department dictating device choice the average worker is driving adoption.
This seismic shift in the power structure of enterprise IT is creating a huge demand for cross-platform development solutions. CEO’s and CIO’s across industries have made significant investments in C# and .NET technologies. Mono empowers them to bring these technologies to new platforms, and is poised to make a huge impact in the enterprise.
Scott Olson presents the current mobile industry landscape, what enterprise mobility opportunities are, and how developers can profit with cross-platform development with Mono.
About the conference
Monospace provides developers a unique look at running their applications across all the platforms using Microsoft's .NET Framework by focusing on the Mono framework and open source .NET technologies.
September 2011
How your IT Department can cope with the revised HIPAA regulations
As information technology pervades every aspect of healthcare, complying with federal regulations on patient privacy and security is becoming an even bigger issue.
More often than not, it's human error and process mistakes--not the technology itself--that have caused the biggest HIPAA violations. Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services began listing health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals on www.hhs.gov. As of late August, 306 HIPAA violations were listed on HHS's "Hall of Shame" site, most of them involving stolen or lost computers, USB drives, or documents, not hacking or snooping.
In one of the largest penalties so far since the revised HIPAA rules were signed into law under the HITECH Act in 2009, Massachusetts General Hospital in February was fined $1 million to settle what HHS called "potential HIPAA violations" related to the loss of paper documents listing names, appointments, and other information for 192 patients of Mass General's infectious disease outpatient practice. A Mass General employee commuting to work left the documents on a train.
According to HHS, the government's investigation of the incident indicated that Mass General "failed to implement reasonable, appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of PHI when removed from Mass General's premises and impermissibly disclosed PHI potentially violating provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule."
The revised HIPAA regulations have forced IT organizations to put more emphasis on data in transit, says Mony Weschler, director of ancillary informatics at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. When it comes to electronic communications with patients, "it's not just as simple as cutting a report and emailing it. You can't do that," Weschler says. Rather, healthcare providers need to set up secure passwords and IDs, and then provide patients with links to patient portals to pull reports up, he says.
Securing patient data on mobile devices--which are at the center of many of the data breaches reported on the HHS site--isn't an issue for Montifiore. "We don't store patient data on devices like smartphones and iPads."
Unfortunately, securing doctor-patient communication isn't the only HIPAA issue keeping IT managers up at night. Any data exchanged among clinicians also has to be secure.
Dell, through its Perot services unit, offers products and services to address those needs. Its cloud-based services, for instance, can encrypt medical images "three ways, before, during, and after" transmission, says Dave Marchand, Dell's health and life sciences CTO.
What are the other challenges your IT department is facing due to the revised HIPAA regulations? & How do you cope with all of that? Share your thoughts in comments section below.
September 2011
Mobiscroll - A customizable date/time picker and scroller for touch devices
Mobiscroll is a "wheel scroller user control" optimized for touchscreens to easily enter date and/or time which comes as a jQuery plugin.
It is highly customizable where values can be anything (including images) and can even be used as an alternative to the default select control (dropdown list).
The plugin's look can be changed easily with theming support and has ready-to-use good-looking skins (default, Android, Sense UI and iOS).
And, it integrates well with other JS frameworks including jQuery Mobile.
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September 2011
What is HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS)?
The HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS) is intended to allow the release of eligibility data to Medicare Providers, Suppliers, or their authorized billing agents for the purpose of preparing an accurate Medicare claim, determining Beneficiary liability or determining eligibility for specific services. Such information may not be disclosed to anyone other than the Provider, Supplier, or Beneficiary for whom a claim is filed.
There are two ways to inquire for eligibility. CMS offers an Extranet-based X12N 270/271 Eligibility System (HETS 270/271) for high volume Providers who frequently check Medicare eligibility. CMS also is currently pilot testing an internet-based User Interface (UI) System (HETS UI) for Providers who check Medicare eligibility infrequently.
The HETS Help site is designed, in conjunction with the MCARE Help Desk, to provide technical System support to CMS business partners for the initiation, implementation, and operation of the Medicare HETS UI Internet application and the HETS 270/271 application - Extranet Transaction Submission. This information is provided to assist external business partners with connectivity, testing, and data exchange with CMS and to keep users informed of any system issues that may arise.
HETS 270/271
The HETS 270/271 application allows Providers or Clearinghouses to submit HIPAA compliant 270 eligibility request files over a secure connection. All HETS 270/271 submitters must obtain a secure connection to the Medicare Data Communication Network (MDCN). HETS 270/271 submitters must also develop or acquire a mechanism to construct and send 270 eligibility request files and receive and deconstruct 271 eligibility response files in a real-time environment. The HETS 270/271 application supports real-time transactions only; the application does not accept batch transactions.
If you are interested in the HETS 270/271 application, your organization must obtain an AT&T Global Network Service (AGNS) connection to the MDCN network. An AGNS connection can be obtained from one of the authorized AT&T Resellers: IVANS or McKesson. More information on how to connect (including contact information for IVANS and McKesson) is available on the "How to Get Connected – HETS 270/271" page.
NOTE: If you are an insurer inquiring about how to submit 270 transactions to Medicare for Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Mandatory Reporting purposes, please refer to the Mandatory Insurer Reporting website link found under the "Related Links Inside CMS" section below.
HETS UI
The HETS UI Internet application provides users with a direct front-end interface to submit Beneficiary eligibility information requests. The user is able to submit transactions by entering Beneficiary information and receive a real-time response online. Thus, the user does not need to be concerned with X12 formatting, any transaction set formulation, or an AGNS connection to the MDCN network.
Are you thinking about building HIPAA Compliant Apps for your business? Contact AMT here.
September 2011
8 Things Windows 8 Does Better Than Windows 7
Windows 8 has been shown off for developers at the Microsoft conference Build - and although the version is not complete, there are some key differences that we can pluck out from its popular predecessor.
Windows 7 was a big hit for Microsoft, following on from the troublesome Windows Vista and reminding people that the Redmond giant was not quite ready to hang up its code just yet.
And Windows 8 will now try to build on that and show that Windows can work on anything from tablets to televisions, and still dominate on laptops and desktops.
Here are 8 key differences that Windows 8 brings...
- Touch friendly
- Start menu replaced
- Better multiple monitor support
- Charms
- Search
- ARM support
- Windows Store
- Cloud integration
September 2011
Cinderella - Ultimate development environment for open source hacking on Mac OSX
Cinderella builds everything up in ~/Developer. It won't stomp on any of your current installations so you don't have to commit your entire machine immediately. It's simple to rollback if you really want to.
Various Development environment Cinderella Provides are:
- mysql, postgres, redis, solr, memcached and mongodb
- ruby (1.8.7) via rbenv.
- python (2.7) with pip.
- node.js (0.4.11) with npm.
- erlang (R13B04) environment.
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September 2011
Baker - An HTML5 Framework for Developing Interactive EBooks for iPads
Have you been thinking about a framework which lets you pubish your own interactive ebooks & magazines on iPad or iPhones using HTML5?
Well, Then you must check out Baker - an HTML5 ebook framework to publish interactive books & magazines on iPad & iPhone using open web standards. It lets you create well designed ebooks with ease. Baker Framework 2.0 is an open source project released under a BSD License.The BSD License allow you to use Baker Framework for both personal and commercial use.
1. Design
targeting a single size
To design for the Baker Framework you just have to build HTML5 pages with a fixed width of 768px and you can unleash the power of WebKit.
That's all. Use your favorite tools, test it on the iPad from Safari, refine as much as you want, include all the HTML5 goodness: video, audio, animations.
2. Package
in the HPub format
The format accepted by Baker is simple: one folder, "book/", containing all your HTML.
The files must be in the root level of the "book/" folder, named alphabetically. For example: 01.html, 02.html or A.html, B.html, or any name you want. Just make sure it's alphabetical.
Include all the assets you require in the same folder.
3. Publish
using Baker Framework
Download the Baker Framework and follow the simple instructions contained in the readme file:
- Rename the Xcode project
- Include your book
- Include your icon
- Follow the App Store Developer submission instructions.
Check out Baker 2.0 on Github
September 2011
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