"Palliative Care in Congestive Heart Failure" Published in JACC

17 September 2009 - 07:48
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Sarah Goodlin’s comprehensive review “Palliative Care in Congestive Heart Failure” has been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

“I think that few articles have the potential to do as much good as this outstanding summary of this difficult subject,” commented John Coyle, MD, FACC, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Tulsa.

The article can be accessed online here.

New PC-HEART Site is Up and Running!

21 September 2008 - 08:52
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Welcome to the new PC-HEART web site! We’ve rebuilt the entire system using the latest technologies and have moved to a new hosting facility. We hope that you find the site to work better and more reliably.

You will need to reset your password to access the site. Please see this detailed explanation for more information about why and how to do this.

We apologize for the inconvenience this imposes, but long-term the PC-HEART site will greatly benefit from this transition.

Please email us with any problems. Thank you!

New PC-HEART Site Arrives This Sunday 21 September

18 September 2008 - 19:55
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This weekend we’re moving the PC-HEART web site to a new system and web hosting setting. Re-engineered from the ground up, our new technologies should provide some significant benefits and a better user interface. The move will cause two important points of disruption, however:

• There will be an interruption in access to the site for some number of hours beginning at 0800 PDT and lasting until the Internet has caught up to our new IP address.
  
• All users will need to redo their password.

Please review this full explanation of how this can be easily accomplished.

The new site is based on cutting-edge technologies (Ruby on Rails) that are much more robust and easily-maintained than our old system, which had grown rather long in the tooth after nearly seven years of service. Most of the enhancements aren’t visible to regular users, and in fact we’ve tried to keep much of the look&feel the same since people have told us they were used to it and didn’t want a lot of change. However, users with administrative roles at the site will find themselves considerably better empowered.

We’ve also moved to a new hosting setting that should provide more reliable and faster performance. We’ll closely monitor this to see if in fact this results.

We hope that you will bear with us during this transition. Please let us know how things go, particularly if you have any problems. We will make sure to help you through the change.

ISP infrastructure Revision Completed

12 May 2008 - 11:29
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Update: Our conversion to a new fiber-optic network is now complete. You should see some improvement in operations. We apologize again for any inconvenience during the change-over.

New "Subgroup" Machinery Added to Site

16 January 2005 - 10:58
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In order to support ad hoc workgroups within the Group system at the PC-HEART web site, we’ve added new machinery that enables group administrators to create subsets of groups’ members with restricted access to Document folders and Forums.

For regular users of the site, this capability will be fairly transparent. If you are a member of a “subgroup”, you will see a link to it on the group’s main page. This leads to a summary of the subgroup — its members, Document folders, and Forums, as well as a “new stuff” listing that only pulls up new content within that subgroup.

In the Documents section, you will see labels by folders indicating that they belong to a particular subgroup, just as you will in the Forums section — but only if you’re a member of that subgroup. If you’re not a member, you won’t even know those folders or forums are there.

Operationally, uploading documents and versions of documents remains the same. So does posting to forums. What this new machinery does, however, is allow group administrators to target information sharing to those specific individuals who are interested in it — and to spare everyone else the unnecessary traffic.

We think that this is all thoroughly debugged, but you never know until people start to bang around on it. By all means, please email us promptly if you run into any trouble, weird behavior, errors or other weirdness or if you simply have questions. Thanks!

Clinical Trials / Clinical Research Expo at Medinfo

12 August 2004 - 10:09
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The Epimetrics Group will showcase the PC-HEART web site and its collaborative tools for academic research networks at the Clinical Trials / Clinical Research Expo at medInfo 2004. This session is sponsored by the AMIA Clinical Trials Working Group and will include a wide range of developers and users:

The Expo is scheduled for Thursday 9 September from 7:30PM to 10:00PM in Yosemite A/B of the Hilton San Francisco.

Upgraded Server Now Functioning

01 August 2004 - 12:34
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After suffering a hard drive crash a week ago and hobbling along on a backup server in the interim, we’re now back in business with an upgraded server box. We think that all functions are running fine and that you should notice substantially improved performance. Please let us know if you encounter any problems, errors or other issues. Thanks!

PC-HEART Teams with The Epimetrics Group to Deploy Collaborative Web Site

15 December 2003 - 16:55
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PC-HEART, a heart failure research network of leading clinical investigators, has engaged The Epimetrics Group to provide Internet tools to conduct its research agenda and communicate with the public.

The Epimetrics Group is a San Francisco-based healthcare IT R&D firm that has developed a suite of communication, manuscript management, and data collection tools for clinical researchers. These tools deploy the public portions of the PC-HEART site that you are currently viewing as well as a robust set of facilities for project management in protected, limited-access areas for the PC-HEART investigators.