More HTML Frustration

I can move forward but my ignorance holds no bounds in a new environment. I can do only so much and then, I am turned back, by a message

Error: 403
You are not authorized to view this page
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied.
Please try the following:
Click the Refresh button to try again with different credentials.
If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Open the www.pitt.edu home page, and then look for links to the information you want.

I have worked without understanding. Look at how interesting my HTML appears in this post:










Pittsburgh Marathon





Link here:

Put text in here about the marathon

Race Date: .

Start Location: .

• Search 1
• Search 2
• Search 3

1. Hunt 1
2. Hunt 2
3. Hunt 3

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Marathon Tips








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Eating and Drinking During the Marathon








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Top Marathon Injuries








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It is a test. Informatics is great!


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HTML Frustration - Not enough data - Not enough memory

I am trying to work on the creation of my website. I thought that it would be easy. I thought I had enough information and enough recall from class a week and a half ago but no such luck. What seemed natural in class, following instructions like a good little sheep, seems totally inaccessible now.

So, here I sit, struggling to even figure out where to start. I can't remember how to connect, can't access my original notepad (it has turned into an html document and shows none of the code).

This reminds me of my very first encounter with a mainframe computer. It was my first year at the University of Iowa and I took a computer class. I thought I understood it all. I thought I could reproduce what I learned. I went back in the computer lab and nothing I did worked. I looked at the instructions, I followed the instructions and could not get it to work for hours. Turned out I needed to change the capitaliztion. I can't remember now if I should have done it lowercase or uppercase but it was something that simple.

This feels the same. I know so little and yet it will be simple things that I find out I have to do to make things work.

This is the intersection between my health and my informatics. My body is not happy I am sitting and working on trying to learn HTML. I cannot learn more informatics if I stop working and trying.

There's the rub!

Give Me Your Definition Of Biomedical Informatics - Quick! Don't Think! Say The First Thing That Comes Into Your Head!

This week, someone at work actually asked me this question, in all seriousness. Without resorting to any long and specific answer, I replied, "Medical information and data".

Our Health Informatics online class this week focused on a variety of e-topics that were very interesting and informative and definitely gave me much food for thought.

We answered the questions below which were organized into four topic clusters:

#1
Is it necessarily wrong to not include a diagnosis in a person's EHR?
Is it necessarily wrong to not include a treatment in a person's EHR?
If the patient asks to have a treatment not in their EHR because of their current insurance fee and their present ability to pay bills, and the physician had already decided to not charge the patient for the treatment, is it okay to not document the treatment?
If an insurance company changes their grading criteria to cover an individual which would lead to a person being dropped by their carrier because of a documented diagnosis, is there any recourse for the individual?

#2
What is the process for regulating a drug in the US?
What US regulated drug is purchased online the most purchased?
Are their moneyback guarantees from online pharmacies?
Is there phone support for online pharmacies?
Is the phone support about the website or about the drug?
What is the best marketing approach for online pharmacies?

#3
What are peer-to-peer computer applications in health care?
What are some existing peer-to-peer computer applications used presently for health care?
Have there been any peer-to-peer tools repurposed to assist in health care?
What are some possible uses of peer-to-peer computing in healthcare that are not being employed currently?

#4
What are e-communities in health care?
How do e-communities in healthcare work? (e.g.this would be an e-community that discusses specific health topics)
Are health e-communities influencing the way health care is practiced?
Has there been any "harm" blamed on the information gained from or participation in a health e-community?

In attempting to research and answer these questions, we delved into governmental agencies, law, ethics, opinion, fact, fiction, online investigation, advice, projection and conjecture. Pretty impressive, if I may say so myself . . . and I most certainly do!

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Technology and Snow

Similar to many in Pittsburgh, I have been struggling with snow removal for the past five days. With one crude tool, a shovel, I have tackled the weight of hundreds of pounds of snow. Compared to ideas, technology and the internet, snow is much tougher to deal with. I feel traumatized. Experiencing a big snow storm is humbling. We are fragile little people up against a powerful force of nature.

In terms of medical informatics, this would be a great time to look up all manner of medical advice on the internet.

It's a wonder we shovel at all:

http://www.usnews.com/health/family-health/heart/articles/2010/02/11/fitness-a-factor-in-snow-shoveling-injuries.html

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/10/snow.shoveling.back.heart/

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00060

Let's start with my ...

Neck:

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/neck_strain/article_em.htm

I feel as if I have sprained by neck muscles with the effort of hoisting a fully-laden shovel repeatedly over my head as I attempt to toss the snow over my chain-link fence.

Shoulders:

http://www.shoulder-pain-management.com/shoulderdislocation.html

Perhaps a person can partially dislocate their shoulders through the constant motion of shoveling for five days.

Upper arms:

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_bicepten_sma.htm
or
http://www.wellsphere.com/wellpage/bicep-weakness

After shoveling for many hours, over the course of many days in a row, my arms are sore and weak. Last night, at a certain point, I was unable to lift my arms high enough to throw snow over our fence.

Wrists:

http://orthopedics.about.com/od/handwrist/a/wristpain.htm

Both of my wrists feel swollen and painful in the joint area. I have a great technique for cracking them, by wrapping my opposite hand around the wrist in question and squeezing. Usually, my left wrist does not pop but over the last few days, it does.

Back:

http://www.spineuniverse.com/wellness/ergonomics/tips-snow-shoveling-how-avoid-back-pain

I feel like a have a chronic pull in my back muscles and my stomach is sore from tightening it as I shoveled.

Ankles:

http://www.medicinenet.com/ankle_pain_and_tendinitis/article.htm

I have the sensation that my ankles are about to give way as I have had to lift up on my toes carrying 15-25 or more pounds on the shovel with each scoop.

Amazingly, even under these conditions and sensations, many of us are able to make progress and improve our situations. This must be true for other forms of progress...one step at a time, one shovelful at a time. Work to exhaustion, sleep and work again. Increase efficiency, problem solve and take action. The snow storm has been a mighty life lesson. Dig or Die. Well, not quite that dramatic since I can stop any time I want, go back in the house and re-enter all the comforts of modern technology and home sweet home!

Artificial Memory and Computer-Aided Intelligence

I am currently taking a class in Problem Solving and Creativity. We did a session on estimating on Monday night. At first, Professor Saaty was irritated with the class because we couldn't do things like calculate the amount of energy the earth receives from the sun, like it is something we do everyday, similar to tying our shoes! After a few minutes, I pulled out my laptop to access my Computer-Aided Intelligence. This greatly improved the situation. The internet has become the Oracle. It has answers to the most amazingly diverse and indepth questions such as:

1- What fraction of the energy of the sun is received by the earth?
2- How many people can you feed from an acre? The U.S. has 343 million acres (divide by 2.47 to get hectares) of arable land. How many people can it sustain?
3- Estimate the number of people that can comfortably survive on this earth.
4- What is the total volume of all people’s body on earth?
5- How high would the seas rise if the Antarctic polar ice cap of 5 million square miles area by two miles high melts?
6- Estimate the amount of oil the U.S. consumes per day. It is 1/5 the world total (85 million Barrels).
7- Estimate the number of bricks that cover Joncaire Street and validate your estimate with data. Go gather the data. How many pickup trucks can carry that many brick?
8- Estimate the number of people in the U.S who are between the ages of 20 and 40.
9- Estimate in tons the amount of food the U.S. population consumes in one year.
10- Estimate how many egg laying chickens there are in the United States.
11- Estimate the annual budget of the University of Pittsburgh.
12- Estimate how long you are going to live using heredity, exercise and diet and how hard you strain yourself.
13- How many people die in the world each day?
14. How many squares of toilet paper does the average American use in a year?
15- How many Wall-mart stores are there in the world?

Seriously! Without help from multiple books and experts, who could ever figure these things out quickly. With the clack of a few keys, I had my answers. Now that's amazing!

The internet can be this helpful in medical situations. Of course, self-diagnosis is tricky and complicated conditions and diseases may take some real concentrated study to understand. However, we truly have the world at our fingertips.