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Welcome to the January edition of the
DAWN AC
Anticoagulation Software E-Newsletter for 2010.
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DAWN
AC UK User Group 2010 |
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 We
are planning on holding the DAWN
AC UK User Group on the 4th and 5th of October this year at
the Old England Hotel in Windermere.
We are now looking at getting the user group talks
organised in order to provide an informative and worthwhile
meeting!
If you are interested in giving a talk at the user group this
year, or have any ideas about the kind of talks / topics that
you would like to see at the meeting, then please reply to
this email.
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The Importance of Backing Up Your Data |
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As most of you know, backing up your patient data is essential
to protect it in the event of a system crash, power cut, etc
where data can be lost. But do you know how often your data is
being backed up, if at all?
For DAWN AC version 7 users, backups can be scheduled to run
automatically so that this is taken care of for you. However,
you should periodically check that scheduled backups are still
running and have not stopped if maintenance work or updates
have been performed on the server. Regularly checking that the
backups are being carried out will prevent certain DAWN files
from becoming too large and affecting the speed performance of
the system.
For users running DAWN AC version 7.6 or later, we can now use
the front tally screen to display the last backup date, as
well as the size of the database and log file. If you are
interested in having this displayed within your DAWN system,
please contact us at support@4s-dawn.com.
For DAWN AC version 6 users, it is very important to take
regular snapshots, and if possible, to ask your IT department
to backup the snapshot folder within the main DAWN AC folder.
This gives another form of backup that we can use if the
server backups taken by your IT department fail for whatever
reason.
Running DAWN AC version 6 using a virtualised server has not
been tested by us. Some customers have done this, and at one
site there is a suspicion that the virtualisation of the
server might have caused a database corruption.
If you would like any advice on setting backups up, or need
any assistance with backing up data on any version of DAWN AC,
then please contact us at support@4s-dawn.com and we will be
more than happy to help you.
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DAWN
Technical Bulletin - Did you Read It? |
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 If
you are a DAWN AC version 7 user, you should have received a
technical bulletin email recently outlining some DAWN issues
and information. If you have not already read this email,
please take the time to have a look at this.
If you have not received the email or would like it re-sending,
then please reply to this newsletter.
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Atrial Fibrillation
Gene Discovery |
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A team of scientists from the Icelandic Heart Association
along with scientists from the USA and Europe have discovered
nine gene areas which are involved with giving the electrical
pulses to contract the heart.
It is hoped that the results of this study may make it
possible in future to predict an irregular heart beat and
possibly develop a preventative medicine. The findings have
now been published in the journal Nature Genetics.
To read more of this article, please follow the link below:
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