New Position, New Direction, New Opportunities

by Karl Tatgenhorst on January 21, 2012

A few months ago, I accepted a position as Director of Infrastructure Technology at Lakeshore Bone and Joint Institute in Chesterton Indiana (LBJI). LBJI has been an established orthopedic practice in Northwest Indian for 50 years and is a leading provider of orthopedic services in the region. I was most excited about this position because not only would I be doing the technology work associated with keeping a 7 site business in constant contact, but also I would be administering their PACs (picture archiving communications system). The idea of administering a system designed to share x-rays was fascinating, who knew what technologies I would get to work with?Caduceus

A few months have past and I’m getting settled in, it’s truly enjoyable work. The PACs system involves a lot of networking, some user interaction and then the new skills for a tech: Images are stored in a standard called DICOM (Digital imaging communications in medicine) and they communicate with the practice management software with a language called HL7 (health systems level 7). These combine to create a challenging environment for a tech and the position is relatively new in the medical industry, which means there are openings. Investigate PACs administration if you are a techie looking for open positions in this job market. There are also additional positions that open up to you once you look towards health care. So, if you are a techie looking for work, I hope that this helps you to consider a new potential of sources. If not, I hope that you will enjoy as I start to write about some of these challenges.

Until next time,

K-Tat

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Dealing With Mistakes

by admin on April 8, 2011

Failure can seem overwhelming, but it is an opportunity as wellIt doesn’t matter if you are in an entry level position or a position of corporate leadership, sometime on the job you are going to make a mistake. Depending on the skill level and trust you have built up that mistake may well have enormous ramifications for your company. How you handle the mistake can affect a great many things within your job. It can shape the way people in management see you and relate to you as well as whether or not they feel confident in trusting you. It can affect the operational status of your company at whatever level you are operating at. It can affect the way your coworkers view you in much the same way that it affects management. Similarly, if you are in management and are learning of a mistake from an underling this can be an opportunity to grow your team or simply a nail in your coffin of mediocrity.

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Make your offers interactive to populate your email list

March 7, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I began maintaining an internet directory (click here) for fun and profit, well the goal is profit but so far it has been mostly fun. I decided that once I got the thing running I would try to incorporate various social media community building tactics including those found in the [...]

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Using SNMP Traps To Provide Physical Visibility To Your User Base

February 23, 2011

Last week I wrote a post about building a data center that supports network security monitoring this week I am going to talk about using SNMP traps to leverage that design. SNMP traps are unsolicited messages from an SNMP (simple network management protocol) server to provide notification for an event. In last weeks post I [...]

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How to use Netflow for Increased Visibility Into Your Network Part 1

February 18, 2011

Today, I wanted to discuss how to use netflow for increased network visibility. We have already looked at how to design a network that allows increased visibility, now we need to leverage those design strengths. Netflow is a protocol designed by Cisco to collect and store IP traffic information. The information is used by major [...]

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Using Google Adwords to Refine Your Network Threat Model

February 16, 2011

Over the course of the past year, I have been working as an IT director for an internet marketing company. This has allowed me to continue working technology but to see my tools through a new set of eyes, but it has not precluded me from seeing other peoples tool sets with an old set [...]

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Building a Data Center to Accomodate Network Monitoring

February 15, 2011

Network security is an afterthought or an add on. How many times have you heard that? I’m going to frame this article (possibly series) for someone who is building a new data center. I won’t get into the physical security aspect of it, because that will differ from site to site but that doesn’t negate [...]

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Counter Terrorism, Cyber Security and Corporate responsibility

February 11, 2011

When I think of counter terrorism or executive protection I think of “hard assets”, corporations spend money hand over foot to protect so called hard assets. They tend to place the utmost emphasis on protecting physical leadership, followed by a secondary emphasis on physical infrastructure (buildings and the like). While many people may read that [...]

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Using URL shorteners to strengthen brand recognition and gather deep analytics

January 8, 2011

URL shorteners are ubiquitous in social media circles, without them over half of a single tweet could just be a link with little room for commentary. When we use these services, we are inadvertently wasting precious branding space for another brand. Additionally, we are surrendering a lot of analytic data to their companies without thought [...]

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Are all of your customers receiving your message?

January 4, 2011

Managing an outreach program (such as Twitter) for your brand or company can be very rewarding. Maybe. Sometimes. Well, sort of. Mostly, that activity can be frustrating. What should you tweet about? Who should you tweet to?  

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