Update

[dancerjodi]

We didn't get the EMR Grant. Here's the press release (you need Acrobat to view).

Dance class last night was good. It appears that I'll be wearing pink (blech) in the ballet. I'll think of it as a tribute to Peg and maybe the color won't be so bad.

Does anyone know what time the State of the Union Address is tonight?

I need to visit my Gram after work (and, after stopping at the pet store). Tomorrow I'll drop around $100 on more insulin and needles for Max, whee fun.

In other news, I found a new picture of the Adams House that I posted on Monday about. I drive by it each day on the way home from work. Today it remains mass people storage as it did back then (though, the building was MUCH prettier). It reminds me that I really want to find out who lived in my house when it was first built in 1900. One of these days I'll take a day off of work to go to either City Hall or into the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge. Has anyone done this before (tracked through all past owners of your property)? I'm wondering what the process is like.

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[dirtyknees.livejournal.com]

We didn't get the EMR Grant. Here's the press release (you need Acrobat to view).

I'm sorry. But perhaps it's better for you to not be bogged down for 3 years in the bureaucracy of the Mass eHealth initiative. I had really hoped that *some* EMR would be implemented within the next 3 years, even if it isn't the universal one ultimately agreed upon by Mass eHealth.

EMR

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"But perhaps it's better for you to not be bogged down for 3 years in the bureaucracy of the Mass eHealth initiative."

It was worth trying, so I don't regret anything we did. There were around 35 applications and ultimately only 3 can "win". One of the other hospitals that's affiliated with Partners did get selected (Emerson). I'm sure we'll hear from them how the whole process is going and I'm really curious to see who the final 3 will be.

We're hoping internally to find $ that we can give the docs to help with their EMR. Ultimately despite the expense its just the way they've got to go (otherwise, they'll fall behind everyone else).

Its about time that the US caught up with the rest of the world on this. Other developed countries have almost 95% EMR usage (of course, having a simplified, universal healthcare system makes it easier to put in place). :)

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[dionysios.livejournal.com]

Hrm. I'm wondering who will be working on that at Emerson. Other snarky comments kept to myself. :)

Is it a bad thing that you didn't get selected?

THe state of the union is tonight at 9pm. You can probably get as much or as little pre & post coverages as you'ld like.

I really want to do teh same thing with our house. We know some of it, but don't have firm dates for anything that we know. We've even seen the build date as 1888 or 1890!

Would we be at the same registry of deeds?

Re: EMR

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Would we be at the same registry of deeds?"

Are you guys in Middlesex County? If so, yes :)

My guess is that it would be easier for me to go to Waltham City Hall to check out things in the Permit office (their records go back to the late 1800s, so it would cover my house). Our old neighbor Vinny spent a day at the Registry of Deeds in Cambridge for his house and said it was a bit of an undertaking going between books. It may be easier to go to the town where they'd have things better organized by address (or something).

I tracked online down to some point in the 1980s. Unfortunately, though a lot of places have records up electronically they don't go back that far.

At some point I'm going to get in touch with (and join) the Waltham Historical Society. You know, in my spare time and all :)

[julishka.livejournal.com]

you can go to your local library or historical society or town hall and browse through the town directories (different from the phone book). it should be able to tell you that.

also, iirc, some cities have registries for when houses were built, some even keep copies of the original blueprints on file. oh yeah, check bottom of the page here:
http://www.city.waltham.ma.us/building/permits.html

[mbaspen.livejournal.com]

I did it with my house, but the recording process might be a bit different here in Illinois.

In a nutshell, you go to the recorder's office and start with your name and then just track backwards by owner. The office here has alphabetical books by time period. So you just roll back through the years until you hit your person. Then I went to library and went through the 'City Directory' (basically what they published before we had phone books) and looked the address every few years to see if the owner I got from the recorder's office actually lived there. My place was evidently a rental for about 8 years in starting in the mid 30's.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

actually, they still have city directories, it is different from the phone book entirely. they get their information from the city census.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

I did it with our house at the historical society, but that was easy because there haven't been too many owners and it isn't as old as yours.

If you call your historical society, they can tell you if they have that information or if you would have to go to the records hall. It will save you a lot of time and aggrevation

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Pink??

Is it at least a decent muted dusty rose kind of deal? (well, that'd be good for my skin tone, not everyone's)

Pink

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"Is it at least a decent muted dusty rose kind of deal?"

Nope, its just plain ole pink (I think Crayola calls it "carnation pink").

Pink was my teacher's favorite color, so I forsee a lot of it in the show . . .