Compare Chrome extensions: SuperCoder Smart Assistant vs LiveHosts

Stats SuperCoder Smart Assistant SuperCoder Smart Assistant LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 514 10,000+
Average rating 3.40 3.47
Rating count 5 36
Last updated 2019-07-03 2022-03-29
Size 393.22K 59.17K
Version 2019.07.9529 2.0.0
Short description
Search for medical codes & CCI edits in an all new way with SuperCoder’s Smart Assistant at the top of your browser. Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

Add SuperCoder’s Smart Assistant to your browser for a new, convenient approach to finding medical codes and Correct Coding Initiative edits. With Smart Assistant ready-to-go at the top of your browser, you have fast access to the information you need, no matter what website you’re viewing. That means no more changing screens to find a code while reviewing a provider’s notes in your EMR or EHR. And when you need to check CCI edits while filling out a claim, you can get the right answer with fewer clicks. The Smart Assistant even makes reading your favorite coding blogs and professional resources better because you can check codes and edits without having to leave the page. Here’s how it works: Select a code on your page, right click, and choose “Search with SuperCoder” from the menu. Or enter codes or keywords into the Smart Assistant extension’s search box. You’ll see results from the code sets in your SuperCoder online code search subscription, such as CPT® and HCPCS codes and modifiers, and ICD-10-CM codes. In addition to official descriptors, you’ll also see available lay terms and crosswalks. For the CCI Edits Checker, enter multiple codes and your date of service to learn the bundling rules for your code combo. You can count on Smart Assistant to be fast and accurate, providing the same powerful online code search and always up-to-date CCI Edits Checker that SuperCoder’s online tools are known for. But Smart Assistant gives you access to these resources in a fresh, exciting format perfect for busy coders, billers, providers, managers, consultants, and payers.

LiveHosts is a Chrome extension that aims at providing a working (even if sub-obtimal) solution to a common nuisance that many web developers have to deal with every day. If you have multiple versions of your websites sharing the same host names on multiple environments, you often need to switch the assignments in your OS hosts file.

Other extensions (like the life-saving HostAdmin) can help with the cumbersomeness, but changes to the hosts file usually take an inconvenient amount of time to actually affect the browser.

Unfortunately, there is no way to make Chrome direct requests for a hostname to a specific IP without a standard redirect - you could set up a smart HTTP proxy, but it's often not possible or not convenient.

This extension settles for a sub-obtimal approach: requests to the indicated hostnames are redirected to the chosen IPs with an additional Host header. The browser's address bar reflects this behaviour showing the hostname right after the IP (e.g. http://127.0.0.1/www.example.com/). The extension also tries to take care of all requests to either the IP or the hostname in a consistent way.

Issues

After the redirect, the user is effectively in a different domain that the one they expected. They may notice some functional differences:

  • depending on the server, parts of a web page referring to the site URL (like href and src attributes) could be different from the original
  • window.location has a different value that can potentially throw off JavaScript snippets
  • most Cross-Origin request won't work