networking_diagram

iBiz Server and Client are incredibly easy to set up because they use Zero Config Networking to discover each other. What this means for you is that all you have to do is install the programs on the appropriate computers and launch them - the rest is taken care of automatically!

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Benefits and Features of iBiz Server:
1- Keep all data (clients, projects, etc.) centralized.
2- Access data from multiple computers on the same network.
3- Work on data remotely or on the road and synchronize later.
4- Assign to-do items to different users.
5- Restrict permissions to certain users.
6- Create a central list of job events to be shared across the network.

Getting Started with iBiz in a networking environment
Using iBiz Server and iBiz Client with Zeroconf networking technology, groups of people can easily collaborate on projects.

See Networks how its works

Integration of the instrument in the network
Networking technologies have changed and improved daily business life. We now have almost unlimited access to all types of information, we can collected sales and customer data from servers, search for files, receive e-mail, and provide better customer service, all of which saves us time and money. Our customers have the same need to increase their efficiency, speed up projects, and fulfill stringent quality standards all at the same time. A growing number of customers therefore have a requirement to connect devices to their networks so as to get to the information they need faster, and have all data traceable as well.

E-Link networking interface
The e-Link Ethernet interface connects existing instruments to your network without making any changes to the software or configuration. Balances, scales, titrators, and terminals can now all be connected to a network, and with e-Link IP even in wet or hazardous environments.e-Link has all the elements needed for device networking - a processor, a robust TCP/IP stack, a web server, and a network connection to provide an Ethernet bridge to your serial devices.

Information Triangle

The Information Triangle
I've always found diagrams helpful to clarify my thoughts. Does anybody of you have experience with the currently available online tools for mind maps? I've come across one or the other, but they didn't impress me much, i.e. I'd prefer an old fashioned notepad over them. Either way, here is what was on my mind this day: the interrelationship between Information Technology (IT), Science and the Society

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Any feedback, comments, crititcism is welcome. Is this somehow helpful? Interesting? Well structured? Readable? Thought stimulating? Other adjectives?The quotation above the upper left arrow refers to the following:
"Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly.''
Stewart Brand, Quoted in ''The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution'',

John Brockman, Touchstone (1996).

The Wacky, Wondrous Social Networking Wheel

Yesterday the MB bunch had another thrilling brainstorming session at lunchtime. This time around the cuisine was pizza from The-Pizzeria, and the topic was Social Networking. As the person who called this little gathering, I wanted to get all my ideas out there in some tangible form. If your familiar with the office meeting, you know that tangents are sprinkled like land mines waiting to appear and take you off your main focus. So I showed off my master passable PowerPoint karate and made a pretty little graph. I don't like to think of it as a graph though, but instead Seamus' Social Networking Wonder Wheel. The wheel basically has every idea I could think of for Social Networking. Some of the ideas were plunked from other sites like Fannation.com, where I previously blogged about their "throwdowns" that allow two users to debate topic while other members casted votes.
In all there are about fifteen spokes on the wheel-- some ideas are more immediately feasible, and others are what I like to call "blank check" ideas. One of those idea$ was "fantasy media," where users would choose a team of media professionals and celebrities, then accumulate points based on how often they are mentioned in both MB produced and user-generate content. Unfortunately I discovered I'm not that much of a trailblazer-- after the meeting a quick Google search came up with fafarazzi.com, a site that does the same thing that was floating around in my head-- the only difference is the players were more from the Hollywood gossip circles than the "legitimate media." Still, maybe it can be improved upon by us, or even better-- maybe Mr. Alan Meckler can buy Fafarazzi for us. Call it an early Christmas present.

Small Network

Who are the players in the PHIN? Several can already be identified — and we expect that others will emerge over time. Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault, and Dossia are early entrants. There’s been a lot of discussion of creating PHI banks or trusts, and these could also be players in the PHIN. Other existing players in the PHR/EHR (personal health record/electronic health record) market could be players in the PHIN if they adopted appropriate stances toward portability, interoperability, and liquidity.
We anticipate that the PHIN will consist of multiple interoperable platforms. The exchange of information among these platforms will be enabled by standards, e.g., the ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard and the HL7 CDA Continuity of Care Document (CCD).
Some applications built on the PHIN will prove to be higher value than others (e.g., patients exchanging information with their physician), and we anticipate that some standards — e.g., the CCR — will be more flexible and readily adopted in enabling the PHIN.
Of course, there will be barriers and challenges to the PHIN. Patients currently have low awareness of the value of their PHI, and about why and how to use a PHR. There are significant, legitimate concerns about privacy, confidentiality and security of PHI. An appropriate legal structure will need to evolve to balance broader societal uses of PHI vs. protecting individuals’ privacy.

Work Development

Community-Based Information Technology Workforce Development
John CarrollVirginia Techcarroll at cs dot vt dot edu
Jobs often require sophisticated computer skills. A large proportion of adults lack these skills; many are unemployed or under-employed. Typical approaches to this challenge of an information technology workforce rely on formal training programs, but such programs may not be suitable for everyone and, in any case, lack the capacity to include all those who need information technology training.

CTSC Information

Informatics as an agent for cohesion in the Harvard University CTSA.

[ Posted by Isaac Kohane on 2008-06-05 at 13:11 ]

In the review of the planning grant for the Harvard University Clinical and Translational Science award, one reviewer made a pointed, if humorous, comment. It would be, s/he noted, innovative if Harvard would "merely" learn to work with itself. This (lightly) paraphrased critique outlined the challenge for the informatics component of the Harvard CTSA application: in addition to four General Clinical Research Centers (GCRC's) at four Harvard-affiliated hospitals (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston) there are a multiplicity of research programs, resources and thousands of investigations relevant to translational research in the life sciences across the University. Fortunately, the informatics research community and the IT leadership across the hospitals and medical school had already developed productive collaborations which allowed us to serve as an important part of the collaborative glue across our institutions. Moreover, we already had passed the internal test of "eating our own dogfood" by adopting several NIH-funded technologies we had developed. This included a toolkit (call the "Hive") that enables academic health centers to instrument the healthcare system to conduct discovery research as an informational by product of healthcare delivery that was developed from our i2b2 National Center for Biomedical Computing and which is in the process of being adopted or evaluated by many previous CTSA awardees. It also includes the Virtual Specimen Locator which was one of the implementations of the Shared Pathology Informatics Network that the NCI had funded. With the technical and sociological learning of these projects under our belt we were able to propose the following: