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Using—and Choosing—Web-to-Print and Print-to-Web
Asking all printers: Who wouldn't want to boost your local and regional business in 2011 and widen your geographical market reach in the process? Oh, and at the same time you could reduce sales costs for customers while freeing up your own reps to chase more business—with no snake-oil strings attached. If this sounds like a win-win-win-win proposition, that explains why so many printing firms are turning to web-to-print technology to help increase their profit margins. John Arnsdorf, product marketing manager for XMPie, calls web-to-print "the preferred approach to the marketing and sales environment."
Jay Mandarino of award-winning printer CJ Graphics, Toronto, says online storefronts are his firm's biggest growth area, with three full-time programmers now on staff and two more to come soon. The 40,000-square-foot sheetfed and digital operation is celebrating its 30th business anniversary this year. On average, web-to-print orders account for between 25 percent and 30 percent of most printers' gross total sales, says consultant Bob Atkinson.
Simply put, web-to-print is a browser-based software application that lets printers sell their wares online. More than that, it facilitates commerce, collaboration and/or customer service interaction between those who buy print products and those buyers and sellers of printed products. Web-to-print is nothing new, starting with the onset of e-commerce in the 1990s, say InfoTrends consultants.
In making the industry tradeshow rounds this year, most recently GRAPH EXPO and PrintWorld in Toronto, it is evident just how many web-to-print suppliers are out there today. At GRAPH EXPO alone, more than 40 exhibitors brought some type of web-to-print solution to Chicago. Some names are familiar, such as Avanti Computer Systems, GMC Software and Printable Technologies; others are newer to the scene -- Aleyant, PrintSites and Prisme Technologies' PrintSYS product. (PN readers, please note that this report is not a product roundup and is not intended to be comprehensive.)
Indeed, "the number of vendors has doubled in the last three years," estimates Atkinson, a senior technology consultant with Sabatier who spoke at the biennial PrintWorld show in late November. More than 30 printers gathered to hear Atkinson, who brings more than 25 years of experience in the graphic arts/publishing and new media industries, advise how they can create profit centers using web-to-print technology.
While most North American print firms have websites by now, only about 30 to 35 percent of US small and mid-size shops use web-to-print to their advantage, says Atkinson. Web-to-print shopping is sort of like shopping for dry breakfast cereal at the grocery store: There are so many variations that all look good and all sound good and most probably taste pretty good, too. So, which one should you buy? The answer, of course, depends on what you have a taste for, and/or whether you're counting sugary calories. The consensus is that web-to-print services can be sweet for print providers' bottom lines.
W2P Layers and Players
At its most base level, web-to-print means virtual retail "storefronts" where people can obtain price quotations, submit jobs and, well, buy printing online. The lion's share of web-to-print providers now offer design templates for products such as business cards and letterhead/stationery. At GRAPH EXPO, for example, WitPrint Technology demonstrated its Web Cloud web-to-print software that features an online design tool. End-users can upload popular file types, including AI, CDR, PSD, PDF, J-PEG, TIFF and PNG. UpLinX, a PaperlinX company, has premedia software solutions including on-demand quotes via an e-commerce storefront and an add-on module that merges personalized data into customized print materials.
Amazing Print Corp., a 14-year-old firm, has more than 4,000 US installations, according to CEO Slava Apel, because it makes designing online interfaces simple for printers and their customers who need products such as postcards, business cards and letterhead. Its eCardBuilder web-to-print software includes review, grouping and order desk functions plus integration for e-commerce, FTP support and shipping. Amazing Print also offers customized web-to-print portals. "The response from our clients has been overwhelming in regards to eCardBuilder's online designer," says Lillian Roberts, president of Business Card, Inc. (BCI) of Florida. "I believe this has given my company a weighted advantage in a highly competitive market."
Other providers ratchet it up another notch or two, adding features like online proofing (for non-color-critical work) and customer account management, which can include job tracking and payment options. Aimed at content creators, prepress-centric solutions offering preflight, file delivery, soft proofing and approval have been around for more than a decade. These are now being married to e-commerce storefronts, such as Kodak Insite Storefront, which integrates with the popular Prinergy prepress workflow solution.
Shown for the first time in Canada at PrintWorld, the :Apogee WebApproval 7.0 interactive portal is the latest version of the Agfa Graphics workflow management suite. It allows for job initiation and soft proofing, and also links to the firm's Manage 7.0 prepress workflow. Meanwhile, Avanti offers a modular print MIS solution that includes eAccess web-to-print capabilities, such as online catalogs, RFQs, job submission/tracking, soft proofing and e-commerce, that fully integrate into JDF-certified production.
Datatech SmartSoft has developed PressWise, an end-to-end, web-to-print and workflow automation solution designed as an alternative to purchasing independent modules of web storefront, production workflow, print MIS and mail preparation software. It features Web2Ship Storefronts that automatically generate custom client websites in under an hour, says Datatech. Integrated online estimating tools, with support for custom pricing per client, streamline the entire order process. PressWise integrates seamlessly with existing storefront products such as Saepio, OPS, Pageflex and more.
For digital press users, even more advanced solutions have variable data print (VDP) front end options that drive prepress systems to generate output-ready PDFs on the fly. XMPie's latest version of uStore (4.0), for instance, has a business-to-consumer (B2C) component with features such as anonymous shopping and tagging products and categories to maximize search-engine visibility. And Aleyant Systems garnered Worth-a-Look attention at GRAPH EXPO for its Pressero v. 4 B2B and B2C web-to-print storefront system that provides fully integrated e-commerce, proofing, design, VDP and reorder capabilities. Among the updates and improvements are integrated SEO (search engine optimization) and social media, an open XML architecture for integration with a print shop's third-party applications, and the ability to auto-generate two-dimensional QR (quick response) barcodes for use in personalized print materials. Whichever level of web-to-print you select, "web-to-print is your shop's online portal," Atkinson reminds.
"Make it easy for your customers to reorder and place new orders," PrinterPresence by Firespring president Tawnya Starr advised Show Daily readers at GRAPH EXPO. "Utilize tools such as Adobe PDF JobReady that make it easy for clients to send you files. Be diligent about getting clients to utilize FTP [file transfer protocol] instead of email," she said. PrinterPresence offers turnkey websites with integrated web-to-print solutions created by over 10 years of research with print buyers. The firm now has more than 3,000 clients on five continents. Starr used the show to present more than 20 upgrades to the Springboard platform, including the latest from partner Pageflex, the addition of payment getaways and a tax/shipping calculator.
Rent, Buy or Build Your Own
The hosted, Software as a Service (SaaS) model has grown to the point of grasping about an 80 percent share of the web-to-print marketplace, says Atkinson. "It's a pay-as-you-go model, and they handle all the technical stuff like hosting and back up," he explains, adding that SaaS web-to-print is relatively inexpensive to set up, with low upfront costs. The solution provider maintains all hardware and software, hence the monthly fee. "They're not truly customizable, so there is a limited range of services." But it is fast, "up and running in a week— in one day, in some cases," Atkinson notes.
Ongoing costs vary depending on site volume and features. Flat rates can range from $50 to $1,000 per month, says Atkinson, while fixed rates either are per transaction ($10 to $20 per job) or a commission (say two percent) on each job. "Read the fine print," he encourages, "in case your site really takes off!" A hosted solution is ideal for companies with little to no IT support, suggests InfoTrends.
Employing SaaS, Printable automates and integrates online ordering, personalization, production and fulfillment processes with a multi-channel web services solution. Its MarcomCentral (formerly FusionPro) product suite provides the full range of services including: job submission and tracking, development of customizable storefronts and template design, variable data publishing (VDP) functionality, campaign management, mailing list purchasing, digital asset management, inventory control and integration with production workflow.
Bitstream announced its externally hosted Pageflex SaaS solution at GRAPH EXPO. It competes with iWay from Press-sense, which Bitstream acquired last May. (Ricoh InfoPrint Solutions resells iWay as its web-to-print platform of choice.) It will be interesting to see how these product offerings shake out at Bitstream going forward. RedTie Limited, based in the U.K. with New York offices, provides web-to-print solutions worldwide that are sold directly and through partners, including HP, Heidelberg and manroland. Its latest offering, Red2Go, offers a pay-as-you go module with training available through the new RedTie Academy.
If, on the other hand, your firm has a strong IT staff, you may lean toward a buying a licensed solution off the proverbial shelf. The licensed software model, what Atkinson calls "web-to-print in a box," involves higher set-up costs in the form of a one-time purchase fee—let's say $12,000, for the sake of argument. "Software costs from $1,000 to $50,000, based on features," Atkinson points out. There's also an annual maintenance fee of about 10 percent but no ongoing, monthly fees like in SaaS.
So why would a printer want to incur that kind of initial cost on a licensed solution? The answer is customization and flexibility, which take longer: anywhere from one to three months. Licensed web-to-print is hosted within your facility on your own system/server, or you can rent a server. (Another option is as an add-on module to an existing MIS or workflow system.) In addition to server hardware, you'd also need to provide your own server software, database software, software licenses and a high-speed Internet connection, of course, with that skilled IT person to set up, run and back up. Your tekkie needs to be able to navigate through the complexity of hook-ups to existing, in-house MIS or workflow. This can be tricky, not to mention expensive, says Atkinson.
Some of the mammoth, super-high-volume printing firms take matters into their own hands and build their own systems. Look at RR Donnelley, which is making its own inkjet web presses. (Who needs HP or Kodak, right?) But when it comes to web-to-print, most don't aspire to be like Netherlands-based Vistaprint, says Atkinson. The online-only juggernaut, which caters to small businesses via a proprietary system, had annual sales last year of $670 million, up 30 percent over 2009.
Constructing your own web-to-print system from the ground up is time-consuming and expensive. How expensive? Well, that all depends, of course, but Atkinson says maybe $50,000 on the low end, with a median price tag of around $135,000. "A quarter of a million dollars is not uncommon," he notes. "I've seen some in the seven-figure range." The general programmers and database people required may not have print/prepress knowledge, Atkinson adds, "so you're paying them $120 an hour for weeks on end. It could take three to six month to develop, test and ramp up." But home-spun is the most flexible of all the web-to-print options.
If they're not using their own, homegrown technology, larger printers and enterprise organizations with multiple sites tend to gravitate to higher end, licensed web-to-print tools, such as the award-winning EFI Digital StoreFront (DSF), which delivers a complete, streamlined job management and workflow solution. For example, giant government in-plant DLA Document Services, which is part of the US Department of Defense, recently chose this customizable, Internet-based shopping and communication platform over its own system for 150 global locations. EFI also offers PrintSmith Site, an Internet add-on module that enables easy creation and management of storefront websites within the familiar PrintSmith costing interface—with no HTML knowledge required.
There are plenty of cost-effective choices for mid- and small-size printers, too. Printable was already mentioned, and don't forget Dalim Software with its print workflow solutions, including web-to-print. The list goes on. Even Adobe is in the act, with its Scene7 web-to-print component that enables personalized print products and localized marketing materials through hosted services. There also are suppliers out if the printing industry with attractive pricing, but Atkinson says to tread cautiously. "Make sure you choose a vendor with prepress, estimating and print MIS knowledge," he councils. PrintSites, for example, offers web-based e-commerce software created exclusively for the print sector by multi-generation industry insiders, "by printers for printers," the firm says. (Editor's note: Mr. Atkinson is careful not to endorse any products.)
Mark Vruno, a business writer reporting on the commercial print industry for more than 20 years, moderated a "Case Study Theatre" at the recent PrintWorld 2010 show in Toronto. He also was the lead writer for the GRAPH EXPO 2010 Show Daily and is the former executive editor of Graphic Arts Monthly magazine. Follow him at http://twitter.com/MarkV_Chicago and email him at email@example.com.


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My mom found this recipe somewhere in the states and I made some alternative changes to make it a wheat-free, guilt-free, wholesome treat.
Coconut Custard CakeBy Marillyn Beard
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- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 3 cups coconut flakes
- optional: handful of chopped nuts and/or raisins
- cinnamon and nutmeg
Pre-heat oven to 350 F. With a hand-held blender mix eggs, milk, coconut flour, raw sugar, butter/coconut oil, baking powder till smooth. Stir in coconut flakes and chopped nuts and/or raisins (if desired). Pour into a 9x13 pan and sprinkle cinnamon and nutmeg over the top. Put in oven for 1 hour or till top and bottom is light golden brown.*NOTE: For your milk you can use coconut milk, dairy milk or other. If you don't have coconut flour, you can use unbleached flour or soft grain flour. If you prefer, you can use honey instead of raw sugar (make sure to cut out 1/2 cup milk).

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Started this build a couple of months ago. Tim at Barnstormer Boats has made quite a few improvements to this hull since I bought mine (ebay).
This is a basic hull only, R&L halves, conning tower halves, and resin cast appendages. I only have the halves joined at this time and started work on the WTC. Will run 2 Engel tanks, Astro-Flight geared motors. This was a good excuse to finally get that F-14 radio as well. Due to me recently selling my home of 30 years, I now have everything packed and ready to move to , nice small house with big sub shop. More to follow later.


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Proofreading, it works bitches.
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Phoronix: AMD Releases Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 For Linux
AMD has made available a new Catalyst Linux graphics driver for Linux, the Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 release...
Proofreading, it works bitches.
jk: http://xkcd.com/54/
I hear it fixes the Steam Big Picture segfault.
Backlight adjustment still broken... I hope this is fixed for the final release...
Still no out of the box support for kernel 3.7, AMD still sucks.
Anyone interested in buying a HD6870? I will replace it with an Nvidia card, enough is enough.
not sure what you're talking about, I have a 5750 with kernel 3.7.8 and it works fine for me. you apparently don't know how to i stall the drivers properly. if you're using the installer for their website, you have to reinstall the kernel headers associated with the driver, which is a pain in the ass. distros like Ubuntu take care of that mess for you but you might not get the most cutting edge software. I'm personally using arch and installed the catalyst drivers from the AUR with relatively little effort.
But, depending on how well you take care of the card and how much you're willing to sell it for, I wouldn't be against buying it hah.
The AUR package from Arch is already patched, so of course it is working for you. I am talking about using the vanilla installer on a system with kernel 3.7, out of the box without patching. It simply does not install complaining about missing header files, which are present on the system. That kernel is more than two months old, today its successor was released, most distros have a patched version of the drivers, but AMD developers are not able to support that kernel. Either they are lazy, incompetent or both.
Since that kernel is still not supported I assume that they support the same kernel versions as with 13.1, so the latest supported kernel which is not EOL already is 3.4, released May 2012. That is pathetic.
Edit: I think that shipping costs from EU to USA would make selling the card to you not really a viable thing.
You do realize this is an unpolished BETA driver?
In any case, wait until your distro pics it up. Ubuntu edgers should have it already in their PPA. Arch/Gentoo will probably too. All other distro's ... just be patient and wait Complaining just to complain and wanting and nVidia card isn't helping anyone.
Yes, AMD hasn't got the 'perfect' always working awesome installer and usually is behind in kernel releases. But also, package maintainers pick up this slack and do the hard work for you. As we always tell manufactures we will.
Personally, I say take your nVidia card and shove it into some "We don't care about libre-software" nVidia hole. As a gentoo (and occasional Ubuntu) user, I have used the binary blobs since my 9500Pro and haven't had huge issues.
The drivers are so great that they do not even fix the issues mentioned in the changelog. I mean everybody can read:
"[369298 ]: Resolves a Serious Sam 3 launching and corruption issue with Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 and AMD Radeon HD 7000, 6000 Series GPU"
First of all it also affects HD 5000 and there nothing was fixed - i dont have got HD 6000/7000, but i doubt it was fixed there - did anybody try? Second that driver requires that you do:
In order to be able to start Serious Sam 3 at all...Code:rm -rvf ~/.steam/root/SteamApps/common/Serious\ Sam\ 3/Temp/ShaderCache/


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Xv support was added for 5xx and RS690 in the 1.2.2 release.
Support for the 3D engine in 6xx/7xx (which includes your card) has not been released but is going through final IP review now.
According to the RadeonHD wiki page at X.org, XVideo support was added in version 1.2.2.
I currently have xorg-x11-drv-radeonhd-1.2.3-1.5.20081112git.fc9.x86_64 on a Fedora 9 system, running with a Radeon X34x0 (RV620). But I don't seem to have XVideo.
Does the XVideo announcement apply only to some other models of cards?
Xv support was added for 5xx and RS690 in the 1.2.2 release.
Support for the 3D engine in 6xx/7xx (which includes your card) has not been released but is going through final IP review now.
Would you like elaborate exactly how XV is supposed to work with radeonhd ? (I must be missing something in xorg.conf .. This time the HW is R520.)
Some amusement for you :
I used to have 32bit AMD-XP, kt600 and various AGP cards from RV100 to R481. Each time I tried fglrx both XV and HDTV modelines were broken. Reporting bugs did not lead to anything (both via official route and unofficial bugzilla). - Luckily the radeon driver always worked well (up to R350 that is - nowadays also others).
Now I happened to upgrade the box (HTPC). The promise of FOSS drivers lead to RS780. Basic frame-buffer support was already available with radeon/hd .. so not huge problems there. (It isn't´t ideal - but beats dark screen )
The proper FOSS support seems to take time .. So I tried with fglrx 8.552. That turned out to be a big mistake ! After recompiling the kernel over and over again always adding some odd obsoleted option I was finally able to install the binary blob (via gentoo ebuild). The first experience was some odd unusable mode after setting a right mode with the catalyst panel. The only thing it catalysed was a steaming between my ears . Finally I was able to fight the right mode trough. (It was as exotic as 1280x1024@75Hz GTF timings.)
OK, finally the fglrx seemed to work - but only seemed . No matter what I did the XV was completely skewed with anything based on xine/-lib. VLC worked somehow. In the end the biggest gain was fgl-gears running .. Then I though that this could be a bug with only the RS780. So I put one spare R520 in. And the result was exactly the same.
At this phase I got some flashbacks from the time when www-ati-com was Artificial Turd Industries and the page was filled with an image of dog poop. Somehow it was fitting .. and still would be what comes to fglrx.
Couple of hours later I was finally able to clear the box everything the fglrx left behind. And now radeonhd from git is up and running.. Only XV is still missing
I really hope the ip review is passed and soon !
This XL1800XT card is insane: The design is such that a PCI DVB cards tuner box almost blocks the fan inlet. Furthermore the ATI fan controller seems to have only two operating points (full speed and idle). Now the damn thing cycles the very noisy fan between full and idle ..
Well, I won't complain too much - many of those card are freebies from ATI
Let's see... I think radeonhd still disables dri by default and I *think* you need DRI enabled for Xv since it uses the 3D engine. To enable DRI you need to add :
Option "DRI"
to the device section of xorg.conf, and you also need a reasonably recent DRM driver. I don't think you mentioned which distro version you are using, did you ?
But I already had Option "DRI" "true"
So, maybe there is some Option "yet-another-über-magic" to turn on ?
(I really wonder how difficult it is to update man-page etc. documentation after all the hard coding. This applies especially to the fglrx which seems to lack all imaginable documentation whatsoever. FOSS drivers have the source code at least .. But up-to-date man would be nice )
If I read right then rhd_driver.c has all options there is (for radeonhd). And there does not seem to be anything related to XV or anything obviously missing from my xorg.conf. (Then also the man page seems to be quite up-to-date.)
Ah, it complains libdri.a is too old .. (Now I only need to figure out how to fix it )
Last edited by PWMx; 11-30-2008 at 04:46 PM.
Is the problem that you are not seeing any Xv ports defined ?
EDIT - the thing I don't understand yet is that one of the files seems to be missing - "radeon_textured_video.c". I guess the contents could have been pulled out and merged into other files but I haven't found where that happened yet.
Ahh, here we go -- it became "rhd_video.c". No problem.
One more thing in case it helps -- if you run textured video under Compiz with XAA acceleration the video will crap out when you run it because TexVid leverages the memory management from the 2D accel code and the XAA MM code isn't good enough for video plus Compiz. If you switch to EXA acceleration then TexVid should work fine under Compiz.
Last edited by bridgman; 11-30-2008 at 05:04 PM.
Yes, xvinfo doesn´t show any.
But the problem is probably here:
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
(II) UnloadModule: "dri"
(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: symbol DRIQueryVersion not available.(libdri.a is too old)
(WW) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIPreInit: Version check failed. Disabling DRI.
Maybe the fglrx install (and remove) broke something
("equery belongs -f libdri" gives xorg-server .. so re-emerging it now.)
WHOA ! - That´s it !!
Now xvinfo gives:
Adaptor #0: "RadeonHD Textured Video"
number of ports: 16
Sorry to waste your time with my stupidity
BTW / off-topic: Is there persistent xrandr ?
(Or should I have some script to set the modes each time ?
The whole legacy xorg.conf modes vs. xrandr is bit unclear to me ..)
Glad you got it working. I always find it helps if you know whether something is *supposed* to work before you spend a lot of time on it
I don't think RandR is persistent yet but I believe you can put RandR options in the conf file these days which is pretty close. Haven't tried it myself, but more info at :
I want to get XV running too, but something does not work.
I am running Gentoo Linux with a Radeon HD 2400 Pro(RV610).
This is a PCI-E version, I have no AGP slot.
I checked, /dev/dri/ is empty.Code:(WW) RADEONHD(0): Direct rendering for R600 an up forced on - This is NOT officially supported at the hardware level and may cause instability or lockups (II) RADEONHD(0): Found libdri 5.4.0. drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:02:00.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed
Am I missing some kernel module or something?
Complete Xorg.0.logCode:Module Size Used by radeon 134688 0 drm 103912 1 radeon
I hope you can help me get this working.


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I'll most likely watch from the beach.
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The new collection is finally here and the TLBC Team could not be more excited!
These petite styles bring to mind lazy summer mornings and those perfectly warm spring days.
The excited energy has taken over the TLBC office and we just can't stop ourselves from sharing our team favorites!!
Rachel – Ecommerce & Customer Service Guru
Style of choice: STEPHANIE
TLBC Size: 34B
What she has to say: My new spring addition is most definitely the "Stephanie"! I'm all about adding a little twinkle to my eye this season and this style fits the bill! With the eyelash lace detail and dusty lilac undertone, this demi-cups style is my something special under my favorite summer outfits! Want a subtle yet sexy touch this season? The "Stephanie" is the way to go!
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TLBC Size: 30C
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Style of choice: COURTNEY
TLBC Size: 34C
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Prescriptions: '1 in 20 has an error'
GPs may be regularly making mistakes when prescribing medicines, according to a high-profile report published by the General Medical Council.
The report found that mistakes in areas such as dosage and timing were common, although it also found that "serious" errors were unusual.
The report has received a great deal of press interest, with The Daily Telegraph reporting that "millions" of prescriptions contain dangerous errors, while the Daily Mail reported that "GP drug blunders" are hitting hundreds of thousands of elderly patients. The study examined over 6,000 prescriptions issued at a range of GP surgeries in England. It looked at factors such as dosage, record keeping and giving patients appropriate check-ups to assess the impact of their medication. Researchers found prescription errors had been made for one in eight patients overall, and four in ten patients over 75 years of age. In all, 1 in 20 prescriptions written featured an error. Of the errors, 42% were judged to be minor, 54% moderate and 4% severe.
In response to the results, the report recommends better GP training on safe prescribing, closer working between GPs and pharmacists and more effective use of computer systems to flag potential mistakes and reduce prescription errors.
What did the report examine?
The report examined how common prescribing errors are in general practice, what types of errors are made, what causes them and what can be done to prevent them. It also looked at "monitoring errors", where patients prescribed a particular drug are not given appropriate checks to monitor its effects and side effects. For example, patients prescribed a drug to lower blood pressure might not be given regular blood pressure tests to ensure the problem is being adequately controlled.
Called The PRACtICe Study (PRevalence And Causes of prescrIbing errors in general practiCe), it was published by the General Medical Council (GMC), which is responsible for standards of medical practice in the UK. It was authored by researchers and doctors from a number of academic institutions.
What kind of errors did it look for?
The study looked at both prescribing errors and monitoring errors. Researchers defined a prescribing error as occurring when "as a result of a prescribing decision or prescription writing process … there is a significant reduction in the probability of treatment being timely or effective or an increase in the risk of harm". Monitoring errors occur when "a prescribed medicine is not monitored in the way which would be considered acceptable in general practice".
How was it performed?
The study took place in 15 GP surgeries from three areas of England, thought to be representative of all general practices. Researchers took a random 2% sample of patients from each practice, giving 1,777 patients in all, which were deemed to be representative of the population.
The medical records of these patients were investigated to identify potential prescribing or monitoring errors. Researchers looked at over 6,048 prescriptions that had been issued in the previous 12 months. The details of all potential errors were discussed by a panel including one GP, a clinical pharmacologist and three pharmacists, to decide whether they constituted an error. The panel also considered how the error should be classified. The severity of errors was judged on a validated 10-point scale, from 0 (no risk of harm) to 10 (death), by a separate panel of two GPs, two pharmacists and one clinical pharmacologist.
The data were then analysed using statistical software.
To investigate the possible causes of prescribing and monitoring errors, and to identify solutions, researchers consulted 34 GPs with prescribing responsibilities to discuss 70 of the errors they had identified, including the most serious ones. They also conducted six focus groups on possible causes, involving 46 members of primary healthcare teams, and undertook an analysis of potential causes (primary healthcare is care generally given at the first point of contact for patients, such as in GP surgeries or community pharmacies).
Researchers also looked at previous studies examining prescribing errors by GPs. They updated a systematic review on the subject and undertook a further systematic review on potential measures that might reduce the potential harms caused when prescribing medication.
What were the results?
The main findings of the recent study are outlined below:
- 1 in 20 prescription items was associated with a prescribing or monitoring error.
- 1 in 550 prescription items was associated with a severe error.
- One in eight of all patients had a prescription with an error.
- Four in ten patients aged 75 years or older had a prescription with an error.
- 30% of prescribing errors involved "incomplete information on the prescription".
- 18% of prescribing errors involved dose or strength errors.
- 11% of prescribing errors involved incorrect timing of doses.
- The most common type of monitoring error was "failure to request monitoring" (69%).
- 42% of errors were judged to be minor, 54% were considered moderate, and 4% severe.
Researchers also found a number of factors associated with increased risk of prescribing or monitoring errors, including:
- The number of medicines a patient was taking – there was a 16% increased risk of error for each additional medicine.
- The age of the patient – children and people aged 75 years and older were almost twice as likely to have an error as those aged 15-64 years old.
- The type of medicine prescribed – being prescribed medicines for cardiovascular disease, infections, cancer and immunotherapy, musculoskeletal disorders, eye and skin disorders all increased the risk of error.
What are the causes of prescription errors?
From their interviews with GPs and focus groups, researchers drew up a number of underlying causes of prescribing and monitoring errors. These included:
- Deficiencies in training GPs about safe prescribing.
- GPs working under considerable time pressure with frequent distractions and interruptions.
- Lack of robust systems for ensuring that patients receive necessary blood tests.
- Problems with the use of GP computer systems, including selecting the wrong drug or wrong dosage instructions from lists, and overriding important alerts highlighting potential interaction between different drugs.
Did the report find anything positive?
The researchers say that despite these concerns, they also found that:
- GPs take their prescribing seriously and use a range of strategies to avoid serious errors.
- General practices do have various systems in place to help reduce risks of error.
- Overall, GPs thought their computer systems helped to reduce the risks of error, even though they also thought there was scope for improvement.
What has the GMC recommended?
The GMC recommends several strategies to reduce the risk of errors. These include:
- Improving GP training and professional development in the area of safe prescribing.
- Improved procedures governing clinical practice in this area, such as conducting audits of whether prescriptions have been appropriate.
- Effective use of clinical computer systems in the area of safe prescribing, including better training of staff, alerts to highlight potential hazardous prescriptions and alerts to remind GPs of the need for blood test monitoring for certain drugs.
- Press Release: GP prescribing – a good standard but improvement possible. General Medical Council, May 2 2012
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Lemony Shrimp Scampi Pasta
- Total Time:
- 20 min
- Prep:
- 10 min
- Cook:
- 10 min
- Yield:
- 4 servings
- 6 garlic cloves, pressed or grated
- 2 lemons, zested and juiced
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 pound medium shrimp (21 to 25), peeled, deveined and butterflied (reserve shells)
- 1/4 onion
- 3/4 pound thin linguini
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 small bunch parsley, leaves chopped
In a bowl, combine the garlic, zest and juice of 1 lemon, olive oil, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper, to taste, and the shrimp. Set aside to marinate.
Meanwhile make a quick shrimp stock: In a small pot, over medium heat, add the shrimp shells and onion. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Strain into a bowl and discard the shells and the onion.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat and add a generous amount of salt. Add the linguini and cook until just tender, 2 minutes less than instructed on the package. Drain and reserve 1/2 cup of cooking water.
Heat a skillet over high heat. Remove the shrimp from the marinade, reserve the marinade, and add the shrimp to the skillet. Cook until they turn pink and start to caramelize, about 3 minutes. Remove the shrimp from the pan to a plate and add the reserved marinade. Let cook a few minutes then add about 1 cup of shrimp stock and about 1/2 cup pasta water. Continue to cook until sauce reduces by half. Add the zest and juice of the remaining lemon, the butter and the parsley and stir to combine. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper, to taste. Add in the shrimp and pasta and toss to combine with the sauce. Turn out into a serving bowl and serve immediately.
Recipe courtesy Melissa d'Arabian
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According to the source, Upton met up with Diddy at a Miami club party on March 24, a little more than a month after she and Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander broke off their relationship around Valentine's Day.
Another source said the duo had dinner on Thursday in New York.
For what it's worth, Upton denied any relationship (or "sucking face") with Diddy, tweeting: "Really??? Not at all true.."
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What are the most annoying facts about our industry/market?
What makes you angry? Is there anything that you can't stand it?
What are the most annoying facts about our industry/market? What makes you angry? Is there anything that you can't stand it? |
Proprietary spatial data formats |
SHAPEFILE I can't believe that there is no better standard that has been adopted yet. Do we really want a format that limits the field names, does not always come with a projection reference, uses multiple files, and has tables that are no longer editable in excel? ugh!! |
Co-workers who won't look beyond Arc... ;) |
The almost exclusive focus on tools and much less on either process or the implications of the ways in which we model data. |
The way the "spatial is special" mantra is used as an excuse to build information silos. |
The way I need to suddenly be an expert on "apps", programming APIs and all sort of technical tools and acronyms just to understand what the heck someone is talking about. |
Some people still thinking the GIS department is just a map print shop. |
The cost of the software. |
Making countless maps that are ultimately useless (if you have or currently work in the Public Sector you will know this). |
The assumption, especially in Government bodies, that the software costs money. Too many organisations assume they need to buy expensive solutions because GIS can be complex - yet, as is often the case in software, the reference versions are almost all opensource. If Government users spent a small percentage of their license fees supporting projects like GRASS, QGis, and postgis instead then the tools would be even more amazing, Government spending would be a lot lower, and opendata would be more consistent. |
When GIS Software Support is slow and useless as a 'chocolate teapot' some vendors charge high maintenance fees and 90% of cases cannot fix or solve the problem - they come to the statement of it will be FIXED in the next available upgrade/service pack. Which not a satisfactory conclusion when clients wants it solved yesterday. |
I'm going to mirror someone else's post in reference to RESPECT. I'm sick of being held below engineers in the food chain. This clout of an engineering degree vs. geospatial has got to end. I'm a GISP with almost 7 years experience, with a M.S. in GIS, yet I'm compensated equal to a jr engineer with less than a year experience, with no license and only a undergraduate degree. I have witnessed Sr. Engineers abuse spatial data now for long enough. They lack the training and experience I have when dealing with geospatial data, and processes. They don't fully understand what the "GIS is doing". They don't understand the limitations of the spatial data they are using. They believe that more detail (vertices) means the data is more accurate. After only a week of working with a company, I was able to take a 2 week process (using +2 staff) they have done for over 10 years, into a 4 hour process using only a single staff member... Yet, I'm just a Sr. GIS Analyst, what do I know about anything. I just push buttons for a living and make maps. |
Products not listing what they don't support - either because they haven't implemented yet or never plan to. Too much has to be read "between the lines" of the marketing material on what is and isn't supported. |
Inaccurate data. People will always blame the messenger. |
The fashion in the industry that's making everything that we used before obsolete, on every new trend that comes along. A bit like Ivar Jacobson is writing in this blog post: Are we working in engineering or in a fashion industry?? |
The lack of standards in GIS positions and pay scales. Ie. paying someone with GIS development experience the same as a GIS Technician. |
People who think GIS is someone who uses google maps a lot. |
A 13 character filename limit. |
Having to wait for others to do the simplest tasks in order to move beyond just making maps. |
For me it is the recreation of existing functionality, where I look there seem to be a lot of people spending an inordinate amount of time, and business risk to fulfill already cluttered niches. An over simplified example is where people build a new geoprocessing tool to do a series of functions which the core GIS application they are using already does. So writing code rather than scripting or using the existing functionality. We spend so much time on this, think of the things we could be doing if we used that time more efficiently. Scientist can then do Science, Engineers can design, GIS Professionals can make sure that these functions work. |
The lack of layout / composition possibilities. GIS packages permits spatial data analysis, but not their beautiful presentation on a page. Also the thematic cartography tools were not adapted or scientifically correct (think about area proportional symbols), but that's improving. |
Co-workers who won't move beyond ArcView 3.x... ;) |
One of my biggest gripes with the Spatial Software vendors, is the lack of coherence in GUI and its lack of intuition. I've been working with Spatial Software for some time (~10 years) and even though I swap between 3 (ESRI, MapInfo, ERDAS) packages regularly, I still find myself searching help menus for relatively simple tasks. I feel standardizing the names of commonly performed functions and procedures that these software vendors can utilize will make our jobs easier. Ever used Microsoft Word one day and OpenOffice Writer the next? Apart from some little changes in experience, you're still able to navigate the software with minimal impact to productivity. The Spatial Software Industry need to follow this model. Distinguishing yourself by using differing and confusing titles for common tasks for the sake of "being different" is counter productive and extremely annoying Also the fanaticism of a single software package. Its software, not an ideology! Don't let being a fanboy stop you from building your skill set and learning. |
I'm seriously late to this party, but since the software side is well covered, I'll touch on the knowledge side. People don't think about the fact that the data they are working with represent places or objects in the real world. This disconnect causes them to not be able to easily certain problems, or to make leaps of reasoning that are not physically possible. This is specifically with people who do GIS as a profession, not specialists in other fields who have begun to use GIS as part of their jobs. Specialists are generally more aware of the source and limitations of their data, and thus do not make some of these errors. |
People thinking you cannot perform GIS related activities outside of a propriatary GIS e.g. use maths, to perform calculations, rather than use a bit of software, with it's overheads. I always have a library of code to implement in projects which avoid GIS completely, and are much quicker as a result. All too often, you will have PM's or Analysts who baulk at this, and make the end application less effecient as a result. Sometimes, its best to use a computer for what it is good at, and thats number crunching. All too often, there's a simpler solution in Maths (a cornerstone of gis imo) that should be implemented instead of a call to an ARCGIS/ARCPY (there are of course others). |
Explaining to the average person what you do for a living, or what GIS means, e.g. |
Total lack of standardization and recognition of education and experience. Pay is often random--I'm talking anywhere from $10/hr to $150,000/year depending on security clearance level. I've seen positions in one organization as "GIS Analyst" with lower pay than "GIS Technician" in a similar firm. They do have the GISP; however, that is haphazardly run by somebody in downstate Illinois with a mandate to "contribute" to the community. Many private sector jobs don't want you to participate outside of work and/or they have no resources or are apathetic to your needs. Let's not even mention the fact that many of us are working in GIS Departments in small towns in random sectors of the country and world. At least in IT and Engineering you have standardized tests that enable you to juxtapose yourself to other candidates. |
The industry's painfully slow response to big data geoprocessing. |
1) GIS is a skill, not a profession. If you're not a developer, you'll be stuck on the low rung of the ladder forever. I got into GIS because I like mapping and data analysis, not coding. 2) In my early GIS days, I was optimistic to get outdoors and do real, hands-on research resulting in maps and data analyses. To my dismay, GIS put me behind a desk 100% of the time. MOST of those who do real, hands-on research with GIS make little $$$. 3) GIS has developed into an widget race...Everyone is bustling to come out with the next "big" thing to get rich, but it seems 80% of them lack purpose other than someone had a cool idea. |