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Friday, June 28, 2013

Would you trust a Company in India with your Medical Records?

Would you trust a Company in India with your Medical Records? Well, it looks like the US Government does... ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act) IT Contract Awarded to Offshore Outsourcer. District of Columbia Chooses Infosys Public Services to Implement Its Health Benefit. WASHINGTON D.C., June 14, 2013. Read More...

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District of Columbia Chooses Infosys Public Services to Implement Its Health Benefit Exchange Under Affordable Care Act

The U. S. District of Columbia awarded Infosys Public Services, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Infosys, a global consulting and technology leader, a one-year contract valued at $49.5 million to develop its new health benefit exchange, a crucial component of the Affordable Care Act.

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Infosys Public Services is the prime systems integrator of this healthcare system transformation that will bring critically important benefits to nearly one quarter-million District residents. Individuals, families, and small businesses can purchase healthcare coverage through an online marketplace. The exchange, known as the District of Columbia Access System (DCAS), is a state-of-the-art health and human services solution that will provide seamless healthcare coverage while minimizing risks.

Program Highlights

- As the prime systems integrator, Infosys Public Services is currently designing and implementing the new health benefit exchange, and replacing the District's legacy Medicaid and eligibility systems with new technology that will provide a wide array of services in compliance with the new healthcare law.

- The District of Columbia and Infosys Public Services have successfully completed a federal review of this web-based Marketplace Exchange portal, which will allow consumers to access, research and choose affordable health coverage. The District's Exchange is the first of the nation's state-based marketplaces to gain federal approval in the second phase or "wave" of required tests.

- The new system will also deliver new case management capabilities that span a wide range of the District's programs and agencies.

- DCAS will provide the District with an integrated eligibility system supporting Medicaid, private health insurance and other health programs.

- The system includes key capabilities for providing health insurance to the uninsured and underinsured, including:

o managing qualified health plans from insurers

o determining program eligibility

o enabling shopping for qualified health plan from participating insurers

o supporting enrollment in a specific plan, and

o managing billing for premiums, aggregation of payments, and facilitating payments to insurers.

- Infosys Public Services partnered with industry leaders and other specialists in key functional areas to bring best-in-class solutions to the District for integrated eligibility, plan management and shopping, billing, aggregation and payment.

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Info on Infosys

Sutherland Global Services pips Genpact to buy Apollo Health Street for Rs 1,000 crore

ET Bureau Dec 12, 2012, 04.22AM IST

Excerpt....

The BPO space in India has seen a spurt in acquisitions in recent months. In September, the BPO arm of India's second-largest IT firm Infosys bought the captive BPO unit of US-based insurance brokerage Marsh & McLennan Companies for an undisclosed sum.

In the same month, Mahindra Group's IT services company Tech Mahindra announced it will buy Hutchison Whampoa's back-office call centre business in India for $87.1 million. Privately held Sutherland, founded in 1986 by Dilip Vellodi, has revenues of about $900 million (about Rs 4,900 crore now) and a presence in 11 countries. The New York-based company is backed by Oak Investment Partners and the private equity arm of Standard Chartered Bank.

Open to reducing stake in BPO arm, not selling off fully...
September 8, 2011
Apollo Health Street acquires US firm for $31 mn
August 28, 2006
Apollo Health to merge with parent as BPO lifts fortunes
July 11, 2003

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Hitch Hikers Ride to the Moon - Moon Mission for $300

Hitch Hikers Ride to the Moon. Moon Mission - Arduino to the moon, for $300. Or Send your own Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon. Boy, would I like to do this one!:) Check it out...

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Send your own Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon!

by Pocket Spacecraft

Help kickstart the personal space age by sending your own personalized spacecraft to the moon!

Would you like to send your own spacecraft to the moon?

Have you ever dreamt of exploring the solar system with your own spacecraft?

Well finally you can!

We've developed a very low cost, open source, open access, mass space exploration system that anyone can use, and we need your help to send your very own Pocket Spacecraft, and thousands of others, on a first of its kind expedition to the moon.

We're a global team of scientists, engineers and designers that have worked on this concept at some of the world's leading universities and come together to kick start the personal interplanetary space age and give you the opportunity to become a hands on citizen space explorer. Explorers who back the project can personalise their own spacecraft by adding a picture and customising the message it transmits using just their web browser. More technical explorers can even customise software and hardware.

Upload a profile picture/avatar (left) or school, club or company pennant (middle) to a shared spacecraft, or customise the whole of your Earth or Lunar Scout personal spacecraft! (right)

Smaller than a CD and as thin as a piece of paper, you'll be able to watch online as your Pocket Spacecraft is built in the lab and loaded into an Interplanetary CubeSat Mothership. Having hitched a ride into space on a commercial rocket, some Pocket Spacecraft will be released into space to flutter to the ground to demonstrate landing on a planet with an atmosphere (the Earth). The mothership will set off to the moon where, when it arrives many months later, the rest of the Pocket Spacecraft will be released, photographed and then land on the moon to complete the mission.

Pocket Mission Control will allow you to monitor your spacecraft telemetry (d), onboard apps (e), your training achievements (f), ground station status (g), and where your spacecraft is in space (h)

You'll monitor progress throughout with your own Pocket Mission Control app - track the progress of your spacecraft as it is designed, built and travels through space. See data from your spacecraft's instruments as it arrives, relayed from space by a global ground station network direct to your smartphone. Hold your phone up to the sky and use the augmented reality feature to point out exactly where your spacecraft is!

Never before will private individuals have had such a hands on opportunity to take an active part in interplanetary space exploration - this is your chance to be a true space pioneer!

The Team

Members of our team co-created the first space mission funded on KickStarter (KickSat - due to be launched by NASA later this year), and have created or co-led influential workshops such as the Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop at MIT, and the Keck Institute for Space Studies Small Satellites: A Revolution in Space Science workshop at Caltech.

More than 100 volunteers from twenty countries have inspired, worked on and presented the elements underpinning this project at universities and conferences around the world.

We've created more than twenty open space projects since 2009 building the elements we need for this mission, with contributions from more than a hundred volunteers in twenty countries (and counting) led by our co-ordinators in Europe (Bristol, UK) and America (Pasadena, USA). In short, we're serious.

Your Mission

We'll tell you how we expect the project to work in a moment, but first a little about your mission, should you choose to accept it…

Moon Mission - Arduino to the moon for $300 - Send your own Pocket Spacecraft on a Mission to the Moon

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MacBook Conversions and Repairs adding Internal USB Sound Card to Replace Bad Factory Chips (Principles could work on other Laptops)

I have never owned a MacBook. But, is looks and sound allot like a Dell or Acer Laptop inside. So, I think that even if you don't have a MacBook, either. These Mods could easily be adapted to a regular Laptop. Such as, adding an internal USB Sound Card. To replace a Blown out Audio Chip. I have the same problem on my Dell 6000 Laptop. And this just might be allot easier than trying to solder those tiny little chips on the Mobo. He does a few other interesting things to his MacBook too. Check it out...

Don

Project BlackBook: Return Of The Backlight

June 27, 2013 1:23 am | flippy9

This project has been hiding on the back-burner for a while, but I finally had some time recently to complete it.

cat /dev/urandom | hexdump, because The Matrix.

A couple months ago, I found myself with a dilemma. As a favor to a friend, I traded them a perfectly working 2009 MacBook Unibody 13 Logic Board, for one with a broken headphone jack (jack snapped off inside, physical damage to the connector) and problems with the keyboard controller. It also had a busted fan.

Replacing the broken components isn’t fun for me, as it stretches the limits of my soldering ability. Surface mount, fine pitch for the keyboard controller, and deep through hole for the headphone jack, make for irritating replacement. Earlier model MBPs had the keyboard controller and trackpad controller built onto a single board (the trackpad itself), and then connected to the logic board via a dedicated USB connector. There were additional pins for the power button, but that was pretty much it. Newer models (Multi-Touch Trackpad 2008+ Models) have the trackpad completely separate, with the keyboard controller positioned on the logic board itself. The keyboard backlight is driven by a WLED driver similar to the LCD backlight in those models, with maximum brightness measured at 18V. The LEDs are wired in series. This design remained constant between the Pre-Unibody and Unibody designs, with the only difference being the Unibody designs contain more LEDs in the chain. Both systems have a separate connector for the KB backlight. Here is a link that describes using the Pre-Unibody trackpad and keyboard as a USB device, which I used to find the pads on my 17″ top case.

I decided the best solution to the logic board problems was to build a Pre-Unibody keyboard (with the controller board) into the body of the Unibody system, and place a USB sound card inside some free space. Measuring out everything was quite fruitful, as I found that both have a recessed area for the keyboard, with the Pre-Unibody keyboard pan being only slightly thicker. The Unibody system is designed with some pretty tight tolerances, so there isn’t too much room for mistake. With that, I began the conversion.

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http://braindeadlock.net/project-blackbook/

Converting Macbook keyboard/touch pad into USB keyboard/touch pad

For those finding the title not overly helpful, this post is about adding a USB cable to a Macbook keyboard/touch pad for use with other computers.

The inspiration for this came about as I scoured the house for any trace of a USB keyboard, which led me to the Macbook featured in my previous post, creating a mini DVI to VGA adapter. A quick Google search led me to Cryozap, who had already done the heavy lifting with this project by finding the pinouts of the connector used by the keyboard, as seen in the post MacBook Core Duo Logic Board Keyboard Connector Pinout. Here is how I managed to attach a USB cable!

First thing you want to do is peel the sticker off the back of the touchpad.

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http://attemptedmaker.blogspot.com/2012/10/converting-macbook-keyboardtouch-pad.html