What is a MyChart recruitment message? MyChart is a handy tool to access your personal health information, request medication refills, message your medical team, and more. Many hospital systems throughout the US use their institution’s MyChart messaging platform to invite patients to participate in research studies. In late 2025, the UVM Medical Center’s Epic Electronic …
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Here’s my approach as someone who practices at UVMMC, within the UVMHN. CareEverywhere to find records in outside/non-UVMHN Epic and *also* outside non-Epic EMRs Epic’s CareEverywhere works well with other hospital’s Epic implementations. Regionally, that means Dartmouth and the MGH/BWH/Partner’s network in Boston. (Lahey/BIDMC is switching to Epic soon as well.) In the 2020s, it …
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I recently needed to make a figure for publication and the publisher didn’t like the resolution of the figure that I provided. One option is to increase the number of pixels of the rendered figure (eg increasing the width and height), the other is to create a figure using vectors that can be zoomed in …
5/2023: Every few years I have to download my DEA certificate (“DEA license”) for credentialing. I always forget how to do it so I’m writing down the steps here in case someone else needs help with this. You need some details from your old DEA certificate, so hopefully you have a copy of that.
Sometimes you want to combine two figures in Stata but the –graph combine– command isn’t doing it for you for whatever reason. I’ve run into this when I’ve already merged several figures (abcd), and want to combine that with another merged figure (1234): But what I want is one image that looks like this, stacking …
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Simplify your do file creation! I figured out how to add Stata Do-Files to the list of new files to create on the right-click menu within Windows explorer! Now you can create a blank Do file from within Windows Explorer. I hope Stata decides to build this into future versions. This is incredibly helpful. Why …
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I wish I knew about this feature in college. Here’s the problem: You are writing one part of a word document but need to look at the content of another. Say, you are writing the abstract and are plucking relevant parts from the intro, methods, results, and discussion sections. Or, you are writing the results …
Stata’s great at taking raw numbers and chugging out graphs with minimal edits. Often times you’ll get results that aren’t raw numbers, but instead will exist as a string. Instead, of getting: …you’ll get My previous strategy has been to manually extract these numbers into rows and columns. I just came across these two pages …
I came across the excellent text-to-speech app, ClipSpeak, last week. It’s a freeware program that you can download here. Installing and opening ClipSpeak I extracted the .zip file to my desktop and created a shortcut on my Windows Taskbar for ClipSpeak. Open it up and you’ll notice that nothing happened. (You may notice a new …
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