May 2008 - The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck

Schering-Plough and Merck have managed to fool an estimated 75% of U.S. physicians.

The stories and concerns over Vitorin and Zetia continue...but the number of prescriptions are beginning to dwindle...BD Today in an SEC filing , Schering-Plough revealed that total prescriptions for disaster meds Vytorin and Zetia have dropped by more...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 12:17 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News

Microsoft linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails

Hard Hat Area: Ruby on Rails, Iron Ruby, Light Ruby...Iron Ruby to work with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation....if you are a developer, check out this latest offering, Ruby in the Clouds...net yet with Diamonds, but getting there...and...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 12:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Microsoft/Windows News

Governor's Proposed Cuts May Hurt Entire System, Not Just Medi-Cal

Would the impending Medi-Cal cuts lead to an entire meltdown of the health care system in California...the CMA feels this could very well happen...it is already difficult to find a physician who will take Medi-Cal...will this create another rush to the...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 12:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance

Flip-Flops, High Heels, or Bare Foot....

What's on our feet today...interesting studies showing that some of today's footwear can cause discomfort and issues...still love my flip flops though...BD People who favor flip-flops as their primary footwear option during warm summer months...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 11:56 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest

The Efficient MD -Eavesdrop on Doctors and Medical Students on Twitter

One MD discusses using Twitter ....several others are beginning to use the platform and I have signed up but have not added the Medical Quack yet...perhaps soon...John Mack in the pharma area has moved on to Twitter as well, but as of this morning the...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 11:41 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest

Ten Dumb Things About Medicare

Here's the first 2...visit the site and read the rest...some good points made here..BD Reimbursement - At least in my field, it is nearly impossible to run a practice off of what it pays . Most physicians who are on Medicare offset its bad reimbursement...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 11:21 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance

Zynx Offers Decision Support for Chemo

Real Time Peer to Peer information...allows the clinician to drill down quickly to study and read the desired results...used by 1400 hospitals currently...other areas enable evidence based order sets to be incorporated into EHR programs as well...and...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 11:16 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology

UK Drops NHS Contractor Fujitsu - Cerner Continues

Cerner, as a subcontractor will continue with other areas inclduing the Choose and Book portion of the network, the national scheduling information part of the system. BD The National Health Service in England has terminated the contract of Japan-based...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 11:00 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest

Scripps gets $20M to speed research to patients - San Diego

The focus to to bring biomedical research benefits and information to patients...and of course working more with understanding genomics...BD In a statement announcing the award, Scripps said Thursday that STSI is the only Southern California winner of...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 10:55 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest

US soldiers in high-tuberculosis areas face new epidemic: false positives

Retesting is occurring as up to 30 to 100 percent of the tests show negative...we experience the same thing with some virus detection software on computers, is looks and acts like a problem, but in essence when further diagnosed...it is not..so it appears...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 10:55 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest

Body's baking soda used to catch cancer early - MRI

New technique in the works from GE with clinical trials, measuring levels of baking soda that live naturally in the body...MRI can pick up on the abnormal PH levels and this could pinpoint where the disease is present...BD A chemical commonly called baking...

Published Fri, May 30 2008 10:49 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology

GE Healthcare IT Announces Kryptiq E-Prescribing

This is already offered under the GE portal for secure messaging and document management...now GE will exclusively sell Script Messenger , integrated with GE Centricity software and Kryptiiq will no longer sell E-prescribing services to other ambulatory...

Published Thu, May 29 2008 4:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Microsoft/Windows News

Fox News worker sues over bedbugs in NY office

Bed Bugs go to work too...someone else using the workstation is the culprit it appears from the article...now there are bigger issues with a lawsuit....BD NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Fox News employee who says she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder...

Published Thu, May 29 2008 3:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest

Surgeons Oppose Plan to Pay More for Primary Care

Surgeons have a mind set of their own and is somewhat of a "poke" inside health care, but this time they don't want to be on the losing end of compensation...money has to come from somewhere...so thus the letter to not "rob Peter to...

Published Thu, May 29 2008 2:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest

Online sites pump up organ donor registrations

This is good news all the way around...BD The number of Americans registering to be organ donors is on the rise, thanks in part to a surge in states establishing online registration sites to augment donor designation on driver's licenses. Donor registration...

Published Thu, May 29 2008 2:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Organ Donors, Donate Life America, Organs, Kidney Donor

May 2008 - The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck

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Schering-Plough and Merck have managed to fool an estimated 75% of U.S. physicians.

Microsoft linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails

Governor's Proposed Cuts May Hurt Entire System, Not Just Medi-Cal

Flip-Flops, High Heels, or Bare Foot....

The Efficient MD -Eavesdrop on Doctors and Medical Students on Twitter

Ten Dumb Things About Medicare

Zynx Offers Decision Support for Chemo

UK Drops NHS Contractor Fujitsu - Cerner Continues

Scripps gets $20M to speed research to patients - San Diego

US soldiers in high-tuberculosis areas face new epidemic: false positives

Body's baking soda used to catch cancer early - MRI

GE Healthcare IT Announces Kryptiq E-Prescribing

Fox News worker sues over bedbugs in NY office

Surgeons Oppose Plan to Pay More for Primary Care

Online sites pump up organ donor registrations