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As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009, the federal government has created substantial financial incentives for medical practices to implement Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs offer financial reimbursements to eligible professionals, hospitals, and critical access hospitals:
Tags: electronic health record, american recovery and reinvestment act
Well over a year ago there was a major security breach at a site called RockYou.com. One of the interesting outcomes is that the breach offered the opportunity to analyze password behaviors since over 32 million passwords were revealed.
Tags: Security, password, 123456, popular passwords
Here's a cool tech tool we recommend for saving time on your computer - Keybreeze. Keybreeze is basically a way to create short cuts to access files, applications, and web sites.
Tags: computer time saver, small business technology advice.
Join.me is a great new application from the folks at LogMeIn for screen sharing. If you're working on a project and you need to collaborate on a document, or if you want to do a presentation over the web, this is a VERY easy to use product. The free version has a lot of features and its probably all you need to get started.
Tags: join.me, Internet meeting, file sharing
With so many business and personal activities on-line these days, it's impossible to remember all the passwords. We've all been trained to use "strong" passwords (6 characters or more, not a word in the dictionary, numbers & symbols), but remembering them is a big problem.
Tags: Security, passwords, small business technology
Here's a tip to get more from the small business technology you already have. One of the helpful features in Office 2010 is the ability to directly create a PDF document by using the "save as PDF" feature. Instead of relying on a third-party application, the capability is built right in.
Tags: PDF, small business, Microsoft Office, technology
The creators of viruses and other malicious software have gotten so aggressive recently, that today its possible to get a "drive-by" virus. You may be at a web site that seems safe, but if there are ads on the site, malicious code can enter your system just by viewing the ads. Unfortunately, the world of viruses is a "cat and mouse" game where the threats escalate as user protection increases.
Tags: computer security, Sandboxie, Sand Box
In this day and age of all sorts of computer viruses and threats, a big problem for businesses is what to do with systems used by multiple people.
Tags: laptop, small business, computer, security protection
A customer contacted us a few days ago with an email dilemma. They had been receiving a valued daily report through email, and all of a sudden they stopped receiving it and found that it was in their spam filter and wondered why.
Tags: small business, eMail, spam
Good news, you've protected your laptop (and your business and your customers) by encrypting it. Now, now an encryption key will be needed to access confidential or protected information.
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