It now appears, after 4 months and god knows how many hours spent, that we will be seeing my old code again.  It’s weird in a way, but with us focused on EMR and the ARRA certification programs to start with, we can now better integrate with it anyway.  This should make the idea that was STAIR a better proposition in the long run, since now we can scope the idea of PACS to a much larger healthcare environment.  Don’t try this at home kiddies, but we will have a full PACS, so we add RIS/EMR, automating Insurance and Prescriptions, and then start tying in all the small stuff to form a ‘core workflow logic’ for a hospital of pretty much any size, and using the STAIR replication model for distribution it can run in synch across multiple locations, even multiple cities.

My role is as the Sr. Architect, which fits again since ultimately if the logic of the model fails, it will be inevitably my fault.  I’m really excited to try to follow out the ideas that we came to in analysis and statistics, now that an integrated structure allows us code everything to standards.  It’s really cool, and gives me the ability to know a patient’s problem, then get an image set (possibly) or lab result, then follow all the actions taken in treatment, then get a final diagnosis.  So somewhere in all that is the logic of everything that happens between the time someone gets sick and the time that they are clinically diagnosed.   If I can teach a computer to do structured analysis of this process, I hope I will start to find patterns, so that we can begin to consider pre-emptive medicine, at the cross-reference and research levels.  It’s an awesome concept, basically building resultsets from resultsets, the foundation of learning computers.

Consequently, C# is still holding strong as my preferred language, and with VS2010 there’s a lot of new options.  I think MS made the right decision with the split of the UI from the core logic code (into XAML).  I don’t really like expression studio, but I can totally appreciate the power of XAML within Visual Studio.  The only real limitation is that translating all of the old VS2003/2005 code up to a XAML form structure will be a pain in the ass, but it’s just work, and now that we have logical answers to standards needs, I can deal with just work.

Mike Brown, I watched your videos on celebrity wine tv, and I have to say that you have become a truly stunning example of a man of leisure….  Let me get this straight… they PAY you to do this wander around the wine country gig?  That’s sick man, but power to you :)  For the curious, this is what I am talking about, Celebrity Wine Reviews TV. That wild looking fucker in all those videos is Mike Brown, one of the DJs I play with here in Greensboro… when he’s not out drinking his way through Europe’s wine country.

Anyway, long post, but it’s been awhile so figured I would actually bother to complete some ideas on the web tonight. If this lost you, just ignore it. Nothing to see here.

–chitlenz

Just for the records, I had to WRITE most of that shit, probably 1000 or the 1300 pages submitted, and boy wasn’t it a ton of fun with essentially no reward. This is why I didn’t post many blog entries during that time (writers block?).

Anyway, I’m back on the path to do it again for touchpacs, so I’m either the dumbest man alive, or the most insane… time will tell I spoze.

–chitlenz

Device Classification Name system, image processing, radiological
510(k) Number K100236
Device Name STAIR SYSTEMS PACS & DICOM VIEWER
Applicant
STAIR SYSTEMS, INC.
747 cedard hill drive
allentown, PA 18109
Contact james w monroe
Regulation Number 892.2050
Classification Product Code
LLZ
Date Received 02/02/2010
Decision Date 03/29/2010
Decision substantially equivalent (SE)
Classification Advisory Committee Radiology
Review Advisory Committee Radiology
Statement/Summary/Purged Status Summary only
summary summary
Type Traditional
Reviewed by Third Party No
Expedited Review No

For the TMRS guys, THIS includes tracklists:

TITLE “Just One Second - Apex Remix”
PERFORMER “London Elektricity - Hospital Records”

TITLE “Drift Away”
PERFORMER “Agent Alvin - Hospital Records”

TITLE “Super Star - Bootleg Remix”
PERFORMER “Silver vs Lupe Fiasco - White Label”

TITLE “Bare Religion”
PERFORMER “London Elektricity - Hospital Records”

TITLE “Justify”
PERFORMER “Trei - Commercial Suicide”

TITLE “Regrets”
PERFORMER “D-Fiance - Sudden Def Recordings”

TITLE “Divinity”
PERFORMER “Klute - Samurai Music”

TITLE “Cult of Snap - Matrix and Futurebound Remix”
PERFORMER “Snap! - White Label”

TITLE “Bright Lights”
PERFORMER “Lenzman - Spearhead Recordings”

TITLE “Watch the Sun Come up - Blame Remix”
PERFORMER “Example - Data Recordings”

TITLE “Glitter Balls - Redeyes and Lenzman RMX”
PERFORMER “BCEE - Future Retro Recordings”

TITLE “Toy Town”
PERFORMER “Logistics - Hospital Records”

TITLE “Humanoid”
PERFORMER “Sparfunk - Incite Recordings”

TITLE “Empire State of Mind - DC Breaks Remix”
PERFORMER “JayZ - White Label”

And the zipfile is right HERE

Right now, its just up a zip file so I could include the cue file with it, BUT I will post streams tomorrow along with some other mixsets I’ve been meaning to clean up and post.

Peace - Chitlenz

On the code front, WPF is very cool =) But it really should have wrapped 12-bit greyscale… if for no other reason than just to make my life easier. DICOM via WPF is going to be a challenge because of this, but it’s allgood since the framework nicely wraps Directx, taking that whole engine process out of the mix.

Anyway, I still am still going to post some new sets this weekend, and then get back to coding again!

–chitlenz

Looks to be a good one this year, but my main focus is on applying for the Defcon convention in Vegas August 1. Mike won’t be back, so I’m going it alone this time, but that’s cool, since Defcon is full of MY PEOPLE (… geeks!). I really can’t image a venue that is more fun for me to play personally, I just think 3 days of Drum and Bass + Code hacking is priceless!! PRICELESS I TELL YOU! So now, to get off my ass and get a promo mix posted up by May 3, at midnight..

To that end I’ve been shopping!

I turned 39, and even though we (like everyone else) are broke, Juli let me get a few records, and Oh My God what releases there are!

SICK MUSIC 2 - Hospital
Empire state of mind (DC Breaks Bootleg)
DC Breaks Halo EP
the new Netsky…

just lots and lots of good music out right now, I’m just hoping when it gets here it proves to be as inspiring as the samples. It’s funny, in trance I had to choose maybe one song per EP and the rest was most likely trash filler, while in DnB the A/B sides tend to be not only better, but in different styles. Take for instance the new Spor EP, with the liquid vocal bomb Overdue on the B-side of a truly hardstyle DnB track called Kingdom. It’s great to see artists spread out a bit, especially since the hardstyle and dancefloor producers are making some really really edgy liquid tracks, just really deep pushy stuff that stands your hair on end!

I’m still #1 in NC at trackmania, and have been since September 2009, a scary amount of time wasted… I’m going to post later about my first track, and what I’m doing with my new team (as of Dec) ATS over at Team Air Time and Space. Check out some of the tracks these guys make, it’s unbelievable. I have a page allocated, and any day now I’ll start filling it in.

But for now… it’s promo time!

chitlenz

Anyway, wish us luck as we apply over the next few weeks to become new residents of the Wake Forest Incubator Program, a prospect that seems to me like the best way to start and grow a small business. It’s been a busy month traveling back and forth to Atlanta to meet my new bosses and work on design, but I feel like even though it’s a lot of new work, I made the right decision.

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades… again.

–chitlenz

PS - a postmortem of sorts for the STAIR project is here. I plan on updating it as I can, with the remaining data I have from my notes, altough I returned all source code and projects back to the company, in the name of honest… and even though I felt shafted… it’s allgood though, I escaped with my sanity intact.. or as intact as ever?

On the music side, EyelidMovies is still going well, and we have all individually (me, Lumiel/Pan13, and Mike Brown are EyelidMovies by the way) been playing out over the last few months as we wait for Mike’s triumphant return from Barcelona… I got KRKs and a Matching sub for Xmas, and I just this last weekend had the time to get everything up and tuned correctly. I still have some wiring to do, but now I can record and practice at home again, which is cool.

On the PACS side of things, man I have to say I had no idea we were going to get this complicated 5 years ago when I took this job. It’s been a strange… strange trip indeed, but we have our product out the door pending a response from the FDA (crosses fingers… we’ll know in 60-90 days), so revision 2.9x of the STAIR PACS is slowly winding down. Whew, I need a drink =!

–chitlenz

This set was recorded live 7-7-2009 in Greensboro, NC.

Chitlenz (Psytrance) Hour Two

DJ Chitlenz

and the tracklist was:

1) X-Dream - QuantumLab 05:54
2) E-Rection - Out here we is Stoned (X-Dream Mix) 04:34
3) Nick Sentience and Harry Diamond - Trippy 05:13
4) Lost Tribe - Gamemaster (Lee Haslam’s Tidy Mix)
5) Nu NRG - Casino (Original Mix) 04:54
6) Log:One and Dj Wragg - Am Frequecies 6:15
7) InterPhaze - Stylerz (Original Mix) 6:19
8 ) Marco V - More than a Life Away 5:16
9) SystemBot - Never Be Alone (Nitrous Oxide Remix ) 5:58
10) Aly and Fila - Ureaus - Frase Remix 04:45
11) Murphy Brown and NuNRG - Aloa P (Mr. Pink Remix) 07:26

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Later — chitlenz 7/13/2009

I LOVE to drive. This isn’t news to people who know me well. For the last 5 years, I have managed to stay sane through what has become a 2 hour commute by trying to choose cars wisely (I think…Juli may disagree) which I enjoy. Most Racing simulators never get the feel of speed right. I remember a few years ago when the Wipeout series first came out, and what was remarkable about it, aside from the amazingly forward thinking soundtrack and futuristic graphic design, was the drifty feel of the controls, and the amazing sense of realistic speed the desgners were able to convey.

As a programmer, I have long meant to revisit Wipeout as a hobby project, but then a few years ago I stumbed across Trackmania… And Oh My God….

There are no other racing games. Period.

I will be posting interesting tidbits about my progress in Trackmania.. as a lowly American Sunrise Racer.

chitlenz 7/9/2009

Thanks — Chitlenz