Malcolm McRoberts's List: Business Intelligence

• Dimensional Insight's Diver Solution Recognized by KLAS as Healthcare BI Leader

   

  Dimensional Insight's Diver Solution™ has received top honors from KLAS in their annual Performance Report for Business Intelligence software and services entitled Healthcare Analytics: Making Sense of the Puzzle Pieces. KLAS, an independent research firm dedicated to helping healthcare providers make informed technology decisions, named Diver the top BI tool set. Dimensional Insight is the only vendor recognized by KLAS as a healthcare BI leader for 4 consecutive years.

• BI Documenter
   
  Generate complete SQL Server BI documentation at the push of a button. 

   
  • Database and BI documentation
   
  • Data profiling
   
  • Impact and lineage analysis
   
  • Compare changes to your BI environment
   

   

  BI Documenter outputs "MSDN style" SQL Server documentation in either compiled help (CHM) or HTML format. While documenting all of the major SQL Server components, BI Documenter also documents the entire BI stack, including Analysis Services (SSAS), Integration Services (SSIS), and Reporting Services (SSRS).The unique documentation snapshot feature enables archiving of historical SQL Server documentation sets.

• Data Resource Management is the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an enterprise
• Data management is the development, execution and supervision of plans, policies, programs and practices that control, protect, deliver and enhance the value of data and information assets.

• RDC creates and destroys desktops. This causes the visual tests to go nuts - their desktops are being wiped and recreated. That method of visual testing will not work when RDC is involved.
• Since our test machines were VMWare VMs, we connected via the VM Console,
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  I have a Jenkins cluster running different kinds of GUI testing, win32, swing, selenium. They are running thousands of tests in unattended manner 24x7
• The solution so far is install VNC Server (I am using UltraVNC) as service and make sure it is started during log on.
• Auto logon - there is a tool autologon.exe in SysInternalsSuite, run it on your slave
• Auto register slave - What you need is Swarm Plugin - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Swarm+Plugin . Write a simple batch and place a shortcuts in your startup folder. Everytime your machine autologon, it is automatically registered as slave.
• autologon.exe <user> <domain> <password> REM Here to make sure the logonCount is properly generated REG ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoLogonCount /t REG_DWORD /d 0xFFFF /f  start /min java -jar I:\CDC\jenkins\swarm-client-1.9-jar-with-dependencies.jar -executors 1 -fsroot c:\Jenkins -labels "Prod Win7 %ComputerName%" -master <Jenkins URL> -name farm-%ComputerName% -username <username> -password <password>
• I needed to setup a UltraVNC Server

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• Web performance tests are included in load tests to measure the performance of your web application under the stress of multiple users. You record a web performance test by browsing a website as if you were the end user.

• This topic describes how to install and configure a test controller, and how to configure test agents so that you can run tests in a lab environment using Microsoft Test Manager.

• ACO quality reporting

• 2014 reporting period narrative measure specifications for the 33 quality measures are available and can be accessed in the following file:

    
   
  •   2014 Reporting – ACO Measure Narratives [PDF, 375KB] 

• CMS Measures Groups

   

  A measures group is composed of 3 to 10 individual measures that are created and approved by CMS. Measures groups are not editable to include or omit specific individual measures. To report a measures group, you must report at least 20 patients, 11 of which are Medicare Part B FFS*, that you have seen during 2014. CMS has approved the measures groups included below for 2014 reporting

• The Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs provide financial incentives for the meaningful use of certified EHR technology to improve patient care.

• Eligible professionals must meet:

    
   
  • 13 required core objectives
    
  • 5 menu objectives from a list of 9
    
  • Total of 18 objectives
   
    

  Eligible hospitals and CAHs must meet:

    
   
  • 11 required core objectives
    
  • 5 menu objectives from a list of 10
    
  • Total of 16 objectives

• Clinical quality measures, or CQMs, are tools that help measure and track the quality of health care services provided by eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) within our health care system
• To participate in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs and receive an incentive payment, providers are required to submit CQM data from certified EHR technology.
• Edition certified EHR technology (CEHRT)

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• When you include external files, a copy of the data source is published. External file data sources include Excel, Access, Text, Data Extract, and image files. If you don’t include these files, others may not be able to see the worksheets online.

• By default the API return XML, but we’ll use JSON here, as it’s also becoming a standard. To do so we must add  the following code in the register() method located in the file WebApiConfig.cs

  config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Remove(
  config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.FirstOrDefault(t => t.MediaType == 'application/xml'));