#ib12 mobile device forensics by Jason briody

Fascinating presentation. We trade privacy for convenience every day.

David warnock:

$37m owed in child support in 5 zip codes around Baltimore.

Average of $22,000 owed.

Center for urban families

Why don't we restructure debt so that young males can re-enter Society.

#health2stat fee call by decisionhealth

Payers have complex Analytics to help them structure payment plans for doctors.

Docs fly by seat of the pants...

Feecalc helps practices develop fees,

Practices often accept fees offered

Feecalc analyses costs by location and makes this available to practices.

This presentation just seems to demonstrate that medical charges are not based on costs. They are based on what other people have charged for a similar service.

#health2stat @thenci using Facebook effectively

Challenges in Facebook community management:

Personal information
Hijackers with agenda
Snake oil salesmen
Timeliness in 24x7 world
Resourcing community management

Leveraged the contact center:

1-800-4-cancer

By lakshima Grama

Using chest pain centers to recent heart attacks @raymondbahrmd #health2stat

800,000 people. Die from heat attacks each year in USA.

In 1960 heart attack death was 30% of all victims arriving at hospital.

Dr Raymond Bahr explains that we can use social media to raise awareness to get people care within the first hour.

Chest pain centers raised awareness in hospitals.

The crash was preceded by days of warning symptom. Reacting to these symptoms can significantly reduce mortality

#halth2stat 2013 @micjax

Tonight is the first #health2stat of 2013
Michael Jackson of Adobe

@Micjax @adobegov talking about digital engagement

Why enterprises pay more to deliver poor customer experiences.

Systems of record were not designed for today's open architecture.

Today's systems of engagement are not connected to systems of record

People with income of less than $30k more likely to have a smartphone - but it will be their only Internet connected device

New rules of engagement:

Learn
Validate
Decide
Use
Commit

Validation is the new step.

Commitment is the new challenge.

Engagement
Efficiency
Effectiveness

Doing my skiing homework

This weekend I was working up at Liberty Mountain Ski Resort. It was a busy day starting at 8am with clinic and then teaching for 8 and half hours, finally finishing at 8pm.

My homework for the week was to watch some ski videos and look at the inside leg movement. Well I couldn't find my copy of The Blizzard of Aahhh's - A True Story so I went to YouTube and found this:

80's meets 2012 at Christmas

Wham meets PSY

This is so wrong but so right. It captures the essence of Christmas in the 80's and today.

Merry Christmas
Mark S
B: http://ekive.blogspot.com

Dealing with a weird problem with Mail.app and Contacts.app using different AddressBook files on OSX Mountain Lion

Recently I had to switch my Apple MacBook. I used the Apple Migration Utility to transfer my profile from one machine to another. This worked fine and everything seemed to be okay. However After a week or so of using the new machine there was one strange problem: Mail.app would only find email addresses from the recent list. I found that I couldn't lookup email addresses from my AddressBook in the Contacts app. So how to fix this? This is the story. It was quite a challenge.

Whenever I get a problem like this I resort to "The Google" and see if others have had a similar problem. There were plenty of reports of problems with syncing AddressBook with iCloud, However, my iCloud syncing and Facebook integration was all working fine. Just to be certain I first did a backup of my AddressBook from the Contacts app. I recommend doing this before any major changes to your Contacts App since your contact database is often one of your most valuable resources.

To do the backup I went to Contacts and did File...Export...Contacts Archive to create the backup.

I followed some of the advice online and tried to reset my Contacts database. I quit the Contacts.app and Mail.app. I then went to System Preferences...iCloud and switched off iCloud Contacts syncing.  

I opened Contacts.app and checked my contacts were still there. All good so far. But opening Mail.App there was no change. I still couldn't get mail to lookup email addresses for any of my contacts.

I closed both Contacts and Mail.app and went back to System Preferences...iCloud and switched contact syncing back on. After waiting for iCloud to re-sync with Contacts I opened Mail.app and Contacts. No change. Mail.app would still not find any of my contacts email addresses.

I then went to Mail.app and checked out the Address Panel. There were only two AddressBook entries. The first was for Apple and the second was My AddressBook card. 

I tried adding an email address from Mail.app in to the AddressBook. This allowed the email address to found in Mail.app but the entry did not show up in the Contacts.app. At this point it was obvious that the two applications were not talking to each other. They were working off different copies of the AddressBook database.

At this point it was time to take a look under the covers. Time to  open up Finder and take a look through my user profile Library folder (~/Library).

My first visit was to ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook. 

The AddressBook-v22.abcddb file was large and looked to be too big to have just 2 records in it.

I went back to Google to search for some more ideas.  One article mentioned the Containers folder in ~/Library. This is apparently part of the sandboxing that has been implemented in OS X Mountain Lion.

I took a look in ~/Library/Containers and found a com.apple.mail folder. 

This folder had a Container.plist file and a Data folder.

The Data Folder held two Folders:

- Documents

- Library

The Library folder was really interesting it had a number of folders that mimicked the folders in the ~/Library folder:

Application Scripts

Application Support

Caches

Cookies

Images

LaunchAgents

Logs

Mail

Mail Downloads

Notes

Preferences

Saved Application State

SyncedPreferences

I looked in the Application Support folder and found:

AddressBook

CrashReporter

Mail

SyncServices 

I looked in the AddressBook folder and found the following files and folders:

AddressBook-v22.abcddb

Configuration.plist

Images

MailRecents-v4.abcdmr

Metadata

The contents of the Images and Metadata folders matched the AddressBook entries that were being used by Mail.app.

Finally I had conclusive proof that Mail.app was using a different AddressBook file and I had found the database it was using. The next step was to figure out a way to fix it. The challenge is that there is nothing in Mail.app's preferences to force it to use a different contacts database and the only way to re-install Mail.app is to re-install OS X. I wasn't ready to do that. So there must be another way.

After taking copies of both AddressBook folders I moved the AddressBook folder in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Application Support/

to AddressBook_broken inside the Application Support folder.

I then went to ~/Library/Application Support in Finder and created an Alias of the AddressBook Folder. I then moved it to the ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Application Support/ folder and renamed it to remove the " alias" in the folder name.

I then tried Mail.app but no luck. As I suspected Aliases don't work very well. It was time to resort to Terminal. First I deleted the Alias that wasn't working

I decided to try a symbolic link. A quick Google to get the syntax right and the following steps worked:

cd ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Application\ Support/

ln ln -s ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook AddressBook

I then fired up Contacts.app and Mail.app. It worked! Contacts was using the AddressBook database and Mail.app was too.  To make sure everything was okay I added an email address using mail.app. I switched to Contacts.app and the entry appeared there too.  I then edited the entry in Contacts.app and added a picture to the entry.

While I am at this point I have to point out the retarded change in Contacts.app in the handling of pictures. in the Lion version of AddressBook you could simply drop a picture on to the Picture Frame in an AddressBook Contact Card and the card would be updated. In Mountain Lion it is a major step backward in usability. You now have to switch in to edit mode for the contact record. Then you have to go and edit the picture. Then you have to select the "Recents" tab. Finally you can drag and drop a picture in to the edit window and select Done. 

After doing this and saving the Contact Card I went back to Mail.app and made sure the preference...Viewing tab had the option set to "show contact photos in the message list."

Now the updated photo displayed in Mail.app against an email from the addressee. This is a really useful feature because when you are scanning through a list of emails it is easy to spot the emails from people you are interested if you have added a picture to their contact card because you will see that picture next to the email message instead of the grey head and shoulders profile.

While I was troubleshooting this problem I did call Apple. They were incredibly efficient. They called back exactly when I scheduled them to. Within minutes after discussing the issue with the Support Rep (I had solved the problem at this point - but I was concerned that an update to OS X might break it)  I was connected within two minutes to the next level expert. It seemed I had solved the problem. However, there seems to be a problem lurking here. It shouldn't be this hard. The fix is definitely beyond the scope of many users. 

The support rep gave me their contact details and when I got home I found an email address asking if I could document the steps I went through. So Glen, this is for you.... Rather than keep the solution to myself I have written this up and posted the information to my blog where  others may find it and hopefully give a clue to solve the problem if others experience this.

Pre-#SXSW13 HealthCampAustin planning for Thursday March 7th, 2013 - Are you in?

I need to see if HealthCampers are interested in taking part in a HealthCamp in Austin on Thursday March 7th, 2013.

We still have a lot of details to pull together but I am pretty sure I have a location lined up on River Place Boulevard in Austin. What I need to do is to see who is interested in arriving in Austin before SXSW to take part in HealthCamp.  

I would like to make the theme for the day "Big Data delivering insights for personal health"

So the big question is who is in?

Go to the survey link and let us know what your level of interest is: Survey - HealthCamp Austin - Thursday March 7th, 2013 - prior to SXSW Interactive - Are You in?

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.

Let's kick SXSW off in a big way with an exciting HealthCamp event!

#BlueButton - Because it just makes total sense. Get yours today! #ABBI

I have been a supporter of the BlueButton from the beginning.
Check out this really cute video made by a group of kids that demonstrates the benefits of the BlueButton and the real-life problems it can solve.

BlueButton - it could save your life....