Health records differ from office to office, from diagnosis to diagnosis, and from insurance carrier to insurance carrier. That is all about to change. The federal government has dedicated a $20 billion portion of the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – effective February of 2009) to modernize current health information technology systems. The HITECH act covers the financial and standard terms of this effort. These funds are available for health-care providers who can demonstrate a “meaningful use” of electronic health records (standardized as part of the HITECH act), or EHR’s. This has also standardized the use of PHR’s, or personal health records, which the individual can maintain and deliver, electronically, to the health-care provider that needs it.
What this means for the health-care seeker is total control over your own medical records. With services such as Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault, as well as a multitude of other PHR and EHR management services, the individual will be able to view and update their own health records. For health-care providers, not only does this increase efficiency across the board, with matters such as billing, and insurance, but with more critical aspects such as awareness over the patient allergies or previous lab results. The EHR standards are nationally recognized and all authorized providers will be able to interpret your records, even if you are across the country in an emergency room. The goal and inevitable result is better health and patient care for everyone who is up to standards.
San Diego Computer Techs has merged with ITz Fixed Computers and we have formed ITz Solved. Your full service IT support Company. We are now offering managed services for all of our small businesses and I have included a video below to show some of the features of our managed services from the client portal.
Want to know how you can view all of your computers hidden extensions and files/folders? This tutorial from San Diego Computer Techs will show you how you can do it.
Do you have many unnecessary programs starting when your computer boots up? This tutorial by SD Computer Techs – San Diego Laptop Repair, will show you just how to do that. It is a very quick fix, and will free up much needed memory.
I am Jake Risman, director of IT services at san diego computer techs, a computer support company based in San Diego CA.
This is the first in a series of many web blog videos I will be releasing several times a week.
Today’s topic is how to update microsoft windows
Updates are necessary to make sure your computer is running smothly and all of your security is up to date. There are also enhancements in the
code that are available, that are released periodicaly.
So here is how to do that:
First click down here under start menu and go to control panel.
From the control panel you will find something that says windows update. This is a tutorial for windows Vista only.
When you click on windows update, make sure that when you click change settings, it says install updates automatically on dates that you specify. I choose a time when I am no longer in the office.
It then checks for updates, and once it checks for updates you can either install them, or specify them to install automatically.
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If you have lost all of your hard disk drive data, a great place to start is with Ontrack disk doctor. This is a software program that can help you recover specific files you are looking for. Please not that this is a dangerous tool to use, so make sure that you read all of the instructions properly.
Our Data Recovery Blog is finally up and running, so stay tuned for new data information at least once a week.
We finally have a windows 7 release date obtained from Microsoft. The scheduled date now is October 22nd 2009. Even though this is great news for people I would not recommend starting to use windows 7 quite yet. The reason for this is because just as when Microsoft first released Windows XP, and then Windows Vista, they do not have a great track record for releasing Operating Systems without bugs in them. Here at San Diego Computer Techs we typically recommend customers to wait till at lease Service Pack 1 comes out until the go and switch their operating system. Also make sure that all of your software and hardware is compatible.
If you are thinking of changing your Operating System please follow the link to run a compatibility check on your system: Click Here
In computer lingo 802.11 stands for wireless connection. When you go and buy routers, network cards, switches, etc you will see it say 802.11 followed by a series of letters; typically a,b,g,pre-n, or n. The letters represents the speed and the range of the wireless card. 802.11A basically allows you 54mbits per second. It only gives you however a range of 100ft. 802.11b is a speed of only 11mbits per second, but give you a range of up to 300ft. The latest format that is up to draft so far today if 802.11g which is what most computers today have been released with. It has been the standard since June of 2003, and gives you a max speed of 54mbits and a range of 300ft.
The N that everyone has been talking about is still not out, but you can go ahead and still purchase 802.11n cards. The cards all support N, however, the standard itself is not out yet. They are expecting to have it out by Novemeber of 2009. The N allows you up to 600mbits of data per second which is a huge improvement from G and also 600ft which is double of G. the N format also feathers MIMO which stands for multiple input multiple output format which I will talk about in another blog post.
Basically what this means for you is that you can still purchase N cards, routers, etc, but they might not be up to standard when it is released, however, they will work just fine!
A very good questions has been coming up that we have answered many times and now would like the public to know about it. Many people think that Wired networking is much faster than wireless networking for your computer. This is simply a misconception.
You see there are three different speeds that most wired network cards use. They use 10MBPS, 100MBPS, and 1000MBPS. Most typically a network card uses the speed of 100mbps, and even if it supports 1000 it probably is not using it because the device such as the router or modem it is connected to does not support 1000. Wireless networks on the other hand have many different speeds depending on what type of card and router you have. They range from 12-130MBPS. You can look up what type of speed your card has by looking at the card and seeing if it says Wireless-A, Wireless-B, Wireless-G, and Wireless-N. There are a couple of other ones but they are not as common.
We will take the two most common standards: for wireless its Wireless G and for wired its 100Mbps. Wireless G runs at 54MBPS. So upon first sight it seems that the wired network is faster, which in theory it is, but there is another factor you must consider. The factor is the speed of your internet connection. To find out the speed you can go to http://sfo.speakeasy.net. For my internet connection I am running at 10MBPS.
As a visual example think of it this way I have two pipes one pipe can take 54 gallons of water and one pipe can take 100 gallons. The 100 gallon pipe can take more water, but if there is only 10 gallons running at a time there is no need to take any more water.
The only time you get the full 100MBPS is when you are tranfering data from one computer to another computer with two cards that support 100MBPS. That is why for small businesses here in San Diego we always install 1000MBPS routers and network cards, because they transfer data from their servers. But for home users they simple do not need anything faster then 54MBPS.
If you do plan on buying a wireless card, I would reccomend wireless N. It operates at a speed of 130MBPS which is faster, and who could complain about having your internet wirelessly.
MBPS-mega bits per seconds. – which is the speed your files are transfered at.
Hope this cleared up any misconceptions for you, and if you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at blog@sdcomptech.com – Until next time!
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