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Audio podcast: Following the rules?
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To listen to this audio podcast if you see the “Read more” link click on it and then click on the play icon. You may have to click the play icon a second time.
Fix released: Is Android phone intermittently sending SMS messages to wrong contact?
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Addendum: On 2011-01-22 Android announced a fix is being rolled out and patches are available, click here for details.
It is hard to know what level of concern one should have regarding posts on the Internet about Android phones having a bug such that text messages are sent to the wrong and random contact.
Everyone is talking about the BCMA, audio podcasts
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A series of audio podcasts have been posted on the website.
Everyone is talking about the BCMA
Is the 2011 BCMA election valid?
BCMA Lawsuit in the News Again
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The BC Medical Association lawsuit with former director and member of the Executive Dr Caroline Wang is back in the news again.
Dr Wang's lawsuit for libel and breach of contract will not be heard in court until January 2012.
Meanwhile, the lawyer for the BCMA and defendants has filed an application in the Supreme Court of BC seeking an order that Caroline Wang post a security for court costs of $115,752.80 based on estimates of future court costs and the presumption they will win.
The application acknowledges court costs to date are only $34,860.19. These court costs are in addition to the legal costs incurred by each party.
The BCMA application also states, "this is an extraordinary ... case for the court to exercise its discretion" and "Wang's only significant eligible asset in BC appears to be a joint interest in a home in which ... she currently resides", suggesting she be required to further mortgage her home.
Twitter agrees to settlement with FTC over privacy charges
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The settlement between Twitter and the US Federal Trade Commission over charges that customers privacy was put at risk hit the news this past week. The settlement may have wide reaching implications.
David Vladeck, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said, “When a company promises consumers that their personal information is secure, it must live up to that promise.” And if a company allows consumers to designate their information as private, it must use reasonable security to support that designation, he said.
Does the brain get rewired by surfing the net?
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There is a fascinating article on Wired.com (http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/techbiz/~3/l5_LN8_yizo/) that describes some research studies done in 2007 on brain activity by Dr Gary Small, a UCLA professor of psychiatry and author (http://www.drgarysmall.com/).
MRI scans of brain activity were done while subjects wore goggles that displayed web pages and used a handheld keypad to search the Internet.
The MRI scanned their brains for areas of high activation indicated by increases in blood flow.
Clinical examination of the shoulder
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The following links were provided by Cameron Bennett, Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, who recently did a presentation on "Clinical Examination of the Shoulder" at St. Paul's Hospital GP Department CME Rounds.
Virtual Box machines for beginners
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April 25, 2010
Virtual Box is amazing and it's free, open-source software.
Imagine your computer, whether it is a desktop or a laptop, is a box. In that box is your machine. Maybe its a Windows machine or an Apple MacOS machine or a Linux Ubuntu machine.
Now imagine, inside your computer you can create new boxes that can each be different machines.
Your Windows desktop or laptop computer can now have a Linux machine in its own virtual box. The same applies if your computer is an Apple/Mac or a Linux machine it can have virtual boxes for a Windows machine or any other. And your computer can have several different virtual machines running at the same time.
Let's start, maybe you have been wondering what it would be like to use a Ubuntu Linux desktop or wondering about trying an EMR like Oscar.
More Court Action should be no surprise for BC Medical Association
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Vancouver BC - May 10, 2010 - Z. Essak, MD
On Friday April 30, 2010 Dr Caroline Wang filed a "Breach of Contract" claim against the BC Medical Association in BC Supreme Court. This follows on the BC Court of Appeal decision of January 22, 2010 that set aside the November 2008 BCSC Judgment "without prejudice" and "without comment on the merits of the dispute", only suggesting that a different legal action should have been used.
Naturally one always hopes disputes can be resolved without resorting to the courts and the significant legal expense and time involved.
Unfortunately, despite the passage of more than two years the will and effort applied has not been sufficient to resolve the dispute between Dr Caroline Wang and other BCMA directors that occurred at the February 2008 Board meeting.
Meanwhile, many of the individuals named in the legal actions remain on the Board and important committees. Notwithstanding potential conflict of interest they continue as participants in the decision-making of the Association.
Here is a timeline of events over the past five years preceding and including the dispute and attached is the "Writ of Summons" and "Statement of Claim" filed in court by Dr Wang.
Don’t FIPPA your PIPA without knowing this when it comes to personal health information.
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Vancouver, BC – May 3, 2010
When it comes to the privacy of personal health information everyone in British Columbia needs to know how FIPPA (also known as FOIPPA) is different from PIPA, and the same may apply in other jurisdictions across Canada and elsewhere.
This is of particular importance when information is shared between your doctor's private office and a hospital or clinic operated by the Health Authority which is a public body.
In BC, three different legislative Acts govern the privacy and protection of individual personal health information. There are some very important differences in how these work and the results they have that should be known to all doctors, health providers and patients/clients.
