Fuzzy Matches in Google Sheets

When trying to build our curriculum inventory I needed to match thousands of strings in Google Sheets. Doing this manually would have been tedious and prone to error. The EQ function would fail if there was one character different, forget about objectives that had words shifted around. Here’s my script that outputs the percentage of … Continue reading Fuzzy Matches in Google Sheets →

Mental Status Exam

For the inevitable moment when the medical record eats all my macros, I'm backing them up here. Also, if anyone finds them useful, feel free to steal them. I stole them from elsewhere. MENTAL STATUS EXAM: - Appearance: ***well-groomed, alert, co-operative - Mood: ***pt states they feel depressed - Affect: ***pt appears depressed, ***congruent with … Continue reading Mental Status Exam →

Preview 7 vs Preview 8

What happened to the that little boy on the Preview Icon? Preview plays a big part of my workflow for reading and annotating PDF's stored in Papers 3. I highlight, circle things, and add a lot of text, then all annotations are saved automatically back into the Papers library. Preview and Papers work together more … Continue reading Preview 7 vs Preview 8 →

π day & RPN Calculator.app

March 14th, or π-day, this year takes on additional numerical significance. Only once in a hundred years we are able to celebrate π to its billionth decimal place. 3.141592653 3/14/15 9:26:53 I wonder if Galileo Galilei geeked out on 3/14/1592 6:53:59. In other mathematically geeky news, while doing several calculations on my Mac I was … Continue reading π day & RPN Calculator.app →

CORD 2014 – There’s an App For That (Paperless Edition)

Hello CDEM and CORD attendees. Each year for the past few years, a colleague and I have presented some of the most useful apps of the past year. This year, Jason Wagner (@TheTechDoc) and I have been asked to do the same. Feedback from those previous sessions really focused around providing demonstrations rather than just … Continue reading CORD 2014 – There’s an App For That (Paperless Edition) →

1password demo

Part of the "There's an App For That" talk Rakesh and I have given at CORD has included software recommendations. People requested demonstrations of how to use the software. So here's the first one, 1password for iPhone (also available for iPad, Mac, PC and Android).