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I associate with you!

At one of my last startups that I was employed at, I implemented a system that would provide one place for all types of lookups a front-desk person would want to have. This included integration with business searches for places like pharmacies etc., healthcare code systems like RVUs, LCDs, NCDs, NPIs, etc. with the end goal to save time to lookup - as well as cross-link similar data between these datasets. We gave the online access to this system for free in the hope that customers would buy our patient eligibility solution. Alas, after 5 years of constant living in the shadows of pre-established institutions (hospitals) the investors gave up fiscal support; the startup was no more.

Your cry for help can IMO be addressed by "think like a or even become a programmer", I say this because once you've programmed to solve your need, you can share your solution with others. I did not have this privilege in the healthcare space because of licensing restrictions that say AMA would impose.

For other HN readers (who knows some might be working at Dr Chrono or some such place), know that the healthcare system is rich with data lookups that mean a lot semantically. Yes you may not understand these independent data points, but there is immense value for the curators of these codes CMS, AMA and other health care agencies to defining the interfaces between them to simplify management.

Oh by the way.. USA is still on ICD-9-CM standard, whereas the rest of the world uses ICD10. I don't know when but from a governance standpoint, there's a hard date that all healthcare systems should honor ICD10 codes by that date.

So healthcare integrator's.. you may have a decent chance in this migration to assist with making improvements!

I'm not a business hacker, but really the disparity in 2012 in the healthcare scene exists because there isn't a business hack that can convince ceo's of health care institutions that profits can be made with a new way of thinking. I am observing and reporting what I have thus far witnessed first hand from the front-office and back office operations of some organizations that work in the healthcare industry.

recently i learned that some developer successfully ported vim to windows 64 bit. i was mighty glad, installed it on a windows 8 machine and started to use vim right away, simply because dos's edit command doesn't provide features similar to vim.

i decided to write here how i use vim in no particular preference:

vim's J keystroke (that joins the line in succession with the one you're on) is the most frequent reason i use vim on whatever platform.

next, s/this/that/g search and replace is quick for regex based string replacements

next, vim -d file1 file2 visual difference is pretty great in console or in the gui mode (gvim)

next, on a unix system if you're dealing with C sources for a big project, ctags allows vim to provide the feature where you press CTRL-] and it takes you to the definition of that symbol. This is similar to other editor's right click and 'go to definition' context menu.

i'm not trying to sell vim to you or readers of HN; i'm simply advising to read :help in vim to the best of your abilities the same way you would read about other editor's help pages/cheat sheets and the sort to determine value for yourself. i do agree that examples sometimes enable you to associate with one or the other editor; i dislike using vim for editing all sorts of files. i use vim for things i can quickly get done in it, using other tools for whatever they're good at, if that makes sense.

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60mo has been acquired by FreeAgent, the UK's biggest and best accounting tool! Important information about your 60mo account. Here's the deets. Bloody ‘ell, we've joined the FreeAgent team!

We're extremely excited to announce that 60mo has been acquired by FreeAgent, the UK market-leader in online accounting software. 60mo was built to make the lives of small business owners easier and we’re happy to be joining a team that shares that passion. Also, they have a castle!

What does this mean for the 60mo team? We’ve joined FreeAgent as the charter members of their US team and will be working to help bring the FreeAgent platform to the tens of millions of US small business owners losing sleep over their finances. There is a ton to be done, and we are chomping at the bit to get started.

What does this mean for the 60mo product? As our focus will be on the FreeAgent platform, we’ll be sunsetting the 60mo product in the next few months. 60mo users will be able to get an export of their data until the product is shut down, but data integrations such as Yodlee and QuickBooks will no longer be supported.

How can I export my data? Contact us at support[at]60mo.com with your account id from the admin area and we’ll provide a full csv file export including all of your major data items.

What happens if I don’t export my data? No matter what, we care first and foremost about the privacy and security of your data. After the shutoff date, all customer details and data will be deleted from all instances of the 60mo databases and will be unrecoverable.

Who is FreeAgent? We might be biased, but we think that FreeAgent is one of the best products serving freelancers and small businesses today (and they don’t even wear kilts to work). Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!

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Since 3/2/2012 I started using Trisquel linux (Was feeling guilty having used non-free linux distros so wanted to pay homage to R. Stallman).

DDG comes as default in Trisquel with web browser, Midori. I usually keep Javascript disabled.

Actually DDG's javascript less search result is in my opinion the best thing I appreciate about DDG.

Thanks for your hard work. I'll see if I can contribute to the project in any way I can.