ALL ABOUT eREADERS

MBUG July General Meeting
WEDNESDAY, July 12, 2017 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Hilltop Park Center
871 Jessie Street, Monterey
FREE to MBUG Members and the General Public

Do you use one or more devices to read digital books, newspapers, magazines, or the news? Here is a chance to compare devices and ask questions to help optimize usage or perhaps make a decision for a future purchase.

At the July 12 general meeting, MBUG President Jeff Helms, whose day job is as an electronics technician for the National Weather Service, will give a presentation about e-readers. He will discuss various readers, their different formats, and conversion programs. He will also demonstrate Calibre, an e-book manager, and, as time allows, will discuss related apps and sources for free audio books. So bring your devices, prepare to ask questions, and participate by sharing problems and experiences.

For more information and questions in advance, contact Helms at jeffro270@gmail.com.

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS REVISITED

MBUG July General Meeting
WEDNESDAY July 8, 2015 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Hilltop Park Center
871 Jessie Street, Monterey
FREE to MBUG Members and the General Public

For the July 8 general meeting, we welcome back Charlene Webber-Schuss, RN, CIO from CHOMP, along with representatives Nathan Dryer and Jolene Yarbrough from RelayHealth, for a hands-on adventure through the newly enhanced healthcare patient portal. This meeting is a follow-up to a focus group held several months ago.

As we all know, the patient experience no longer revolves around a single doctor, or even a single facility. This change has created a clear challenge: patients, providers and care team members need a better way to exchange information and coordinate care. RelayHealth is meeting this challenge by improving patients’ abilities to conveniently access health care information on the go. RelayHealth offers an enterprise patient portal application that is responsive and accessible on any mobile device or any browser at any time. RelayHealth is now in the process of designing and partnering with native mobile applications to offer an even greater depth and breadth of collaboration tools for patients and care team members.

They are excited to discuss some of their concepts with MBUG in order to solicit feedback on what they have already done and what they plan to do, so that they can continue to improve and meet the evolving needs of tech savvy patients.

Please come, bring your friends and family! CHOMP needs your input on how to further improve the patient portal.

MAXIMIZING THE IMPACT OF YOUR WEBSITE

MBUG April General Meeting
WEDNESDAY April 8, 2015 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Hilltop Park Center
871 Jessie Street, Monterey
FREE to MBUG Members and the General Public

Our April speaker is Emmanuel Rico Horca, business advisor for the Small Business Development Corporation (SBDC). We all recognize the Internet has become a primary channel for distribution of information by businesses, organizations, schools, institutions, bloggers, musicians, politicians, and more. And each entity sets up a website to interface with its audience and get the message across. Among all these various users, non-profit organizations (NPOs) face some special challenges and increasingly rely on their websites for communication, recruitment, fundraising, publicity, and other client services.

Emmanuel Rico Horca specializes in helping groups and businesses maximize the potential of their websites to realize their objectives and will share with us many valuable strategies, including some basic tune-up tips, how to get visible, how to get listed, how to get found, how to get reviewed, and how to get seen. He enjoys helping clients set up business systems and processes that keep their companies on track and moving forward.

Horca, an adjunct faculty member in the College of Business at CSUMB, has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Santa Clara University and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He has more than ten years hands-on experience in business communications, search engine optimization (SEO), content management (for websites), marketing, and operations management

Prior to joining the SBDC, Horca was senior editor and web content manager for several technology firms in Silicon Valley, including Intuit and RingCentral, where he was responsible for website content and management and recruited and trained an overseas information development team. During five years at CTB/McGraw-Hill in Monterey, he was manager of editing services.

This presentation will be of special interest to all those involved in non-profit organizations or small businesses. For questions in advance and more information, contact Horca at ehorca@csumb.edu.