dmillar

I'm curious. Does hosting with Amazon imply EC2? Or S3 static files? Or some other form of hosting I am unaware of?

I'd add a quick section for a basic iptables setup as well, with holes for the appropriate services.

Developers should know going in, that there is a huge risk in getting your app approved. It's unfortunate that there are tangential casualties like this, but, again, this risk should be well understood going into development.

What's with all the "dying" articles lately?

I can't speak for everyone, but in regard to CS, I, and many of my colleagues, learned most of our trade from books, experience, and each other.

I never really found much utility for lecturers in CS classes in college. I learned just as well--if not better--from a good book.

Notice I said, "at the end of the day." I certainly didn't mean to trivialize the task. Only to say that you can build a web app (and certainly some already exist) the could "kill" the traditional EMR systems. I'm well aware of the complexities involved, but wanted to avoid diluting the topic at hand.

By iteration, I mean one loop of my algorithm. I'm not brute forcing. There are a few other calculations I'm doing in addition to the hamming distance and the hash. I'm relying heavily on the random characters you get to append.

Oh, I was under the impression no other company existed in his eyes ;)

Not running C directly, but getting about 200,000 iterations per second running through an Nvidia GPU through CUDA and the Python wrapper PyCUDA.

Hamming distance? Lowest looks like 31, and I've seen a bunch around there, but to save on iterations it's only dumping out every 1 million comparison, or ones less than 20.

What's notable is that my average is in the mid 30s. Seems like these JS based computers higher. Not sure why this is.

Indeed, I'm using CUDA (PyCUDA) and getting about 200,000 iterations per second.

The future of online content is in aggregation.

Traditional news orgs that are making the unnecessarily painful transition to online news need to slim down their operations. Simplify. The future is distributed media. Fire half your staff and pay independent news sources for content.

Arrington has a breaking story about Twitter planning to colonize Mars? Business Week likes that bit of news, and pays him for sole distribution rights. That's cheaper than staffing a tech biz writer that is inevitably going to miss out on some big stories.

In the end, the way to make it is going to depend on the way you allow your users to access content. Format, quality, etc. You have to drive users, period.

Control the content, control the users. Pay for good content, not for good writers.

There are a lot of industries the Net should 'kill.'

Take health care technology for example. At the end of the day electronic medical records are just getting data in/out of a system. The Net, or the web, is great at this. You can make this adequately secure and distributable and scalable across the globe with little or no setup expense.

The key is getting the good-old-boys to except and institute change, and this requires a large effort in educating.

Authorize.net is in American Fork, UT

We do offer hard drive or DVD restores to be shipped.

Yes, yes, and yes :)

We feel there is a lot of room for feature growth, and much of what you mentioned is being considered.

Mind dropping me your email? dmillar at pacsdrive.com

Paperboy.

GE and McKesson's market are hospital corporations. Our customers are small clinics and imaging centers. The minimum price to setup a DICOM compliant archive is about $25k and that is not counting required support personnel. We do it for $99/month, and we are about 10,000x more accessible than either of those companies for customer service and support.

I do worry about marketing, however. I am hoping this is where we can garnish advice from people like PG (et al). How do we penetrate a market that is so difficult to change? I've seen first hand health care facilities choose more expensive solutions that were inferior products.

We based our pricing on a hybrid of cost vs competitors. We want to be an affordable solution, and we know approximately what our competitors unit price is.

Since we are monthly subscription based we figured out a good price point that would make us profitable, yet undercut our competition by a wide margin.

Any PACS vendor is potentially a competitor. However, a PACS is a much larger solution that this. Really PacsDrive is just the 'A' in PACS (picture archiving and communication system).

Of course, data warehousing companies like Roark Data are competitors, but they provide an in-house and large scale solutions.

Should comply, doesn't _need_ to.

They are neither a healthcare provider, clearinghouse, or other covered entity.

Oops, I guess I wasn't clear. $200/mo is the amount it will cost me per month to run the business (hosting, merchant expenses, etc.). Marketing is not included in this.

I can spend more on marketing, but don't have the huge coffers that some of our VC funded friends have access to.

i still am one.

I had this same exact app a few years ago. (dropmessenger.com) It only worked for the University of Utah, and they did eventually contact me about polling the server. But, they were pretty cool about it, and even asked if I was looking for work. :)

The reality is, they can't really make you take it down, but they can take steps to make your life miserable. Without any reliable API it will be difficult to scale such an app.

Good work though.

8am-6pm at my "real" job, and 3-4 hours a night on my startup. I can usually get in 8 hours on a Saturday or Sunday. It's going much slower than I want, but I feel like I am maxed out when also considering my other obligations.

Well, do I stop working on my Passenger-like Nginx module that uses thin?

There is always room in any given space for another company. What if Google took that attitude when looking at Yahoo, AltaVista, or HotBot?

I had to write code in a run down house that had been converted into a make shift office. There was no AC, and my desk was fit for a kindergartner (no exaggeration). My chair was a metal folding chair and my boss was a sales guy that had no idea how to write even an Excel function. I wasn't there long.

Yes, pay the money.

This is probably not what you want to hear, but I would consider consulting a business attorney to get these docs drawn up.

I'm reminded of this: http://particletree.com/notebook/a-tale-of-two-legal-paths/