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Social Security begins taking online applications – Available now

Even Social Security is jumping on the bandwagon with allowing enrollment on the internet. Recently I had also posted about Beth Israel Hospital in Boston working with Social Security on the exchange of medical records as relates to disability with...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2009 9:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, PHR, Social Security, integration, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, personal heatlh records
Madoff Scam Hits Harvard Medical School Grants and affiliate Beth Israel Medical Center

Diabetes research projects may go on hold. This is sad that the Foundation is having to close and that renovation projects may be delayed or put on hold as well. In the year 2007 the foundation showed a$952 million market value. It...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2008 9:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Investors, Physicians, Harvard Medical School, Charity, Fraud, Massachusetts, Boston, Whistle Blower, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Wall Street, Donations, Greed, Foundations, Madoff, Ponzi, Cancer Donations, SEC
Interoperability Advice for the New Administration – AHIC

I watched part of the video, not all as it is several hours long and you might want to watch for yourself. The site requires Real Player to view the video. Dr Halamka makes a great presentation and everyone called him “the jet”, thus the title...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 1:56 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, medicare, EHR, CIO, Health IT, e-prescribing, Medicaid, integration, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, CCHIT, personal health record, PHR Pilot program, PHRs
Social Security likes PHRs too – wanting to work with EMR and PHR software with pilot program

Some records are already online and will follow the Continuity of Care Document format. Back in June I had posted about the pilot program with Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston which has already been up and running for disability records , also the...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 7:22 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Health Records, VA, Kaiser Permanente, Social Security, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Department of Defense
Hospital Transparency works…and here’s more about it

Good article and nice transparency from Paul Levy in updating the blog on what has been done to better update the current system at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and everyone got involved, more so than the “traditional approach’ he quoted below, and...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 7:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Surgery, Blog, Teamwork, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Transparancy, Never-Never, Time Out, Checklists, Healtchare
Speech Recognition as “Cool Technology of the Week”

Good article from Dr. Halamka at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard in Boston, talking about the positives and money saved by using speech recognition. One other item to mention here from my side of the coin, it makes creating blog entries a lot...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 11:43 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, healthcare IT, Harvard Medical School, Nuance, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Speech Recognition, EScription, BIDMC, John Halamka
Department of Defense and VA to Exchange Trauma Data – Medical Records

Interchange and interoperability of medical records continues, this time with the Department of Defense and the VA. Just yesterday I posted about the exchange between Kaiser Permanente and the VA. The VA has also joined Internet 2 to...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 3:49 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PHR, Health Records, VA, Kaiser Permanente, Social Security, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Department of Defense
Going live with Microsoft HealthVault - Chart Integration at the Hospital

A picture is worth 1000 words. I have recently had some conversations with health care clinicians, administrators, etc. about the Personal health records of Google and Microsoft Health Vault and this shows clearly how Beth Israel Deaconess has...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 11:33 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, Kaiser Permanente, integration, Hosptial, Healthvaut, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston
Standards for Clinical Summaries, Labs, E-Prescribing...

Back in June I had posted some information about the use of this technology. Read the source article for more information on how the hospital is sending information to the Social Security Administration, and there is a simple text example on the...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 12:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, Social Security, Standardization, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, SSL

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Social Security begins taking online applications – Available now

Madoff Scam Hits Harvard Medical School Grants and affiliate Beth Israel Medical Center

Interoperability Advice for the New Administration – AHIC

Social Security likes PHRs too – wanting to work with EMR and PHR software with pilot program

Hospital Transparency works…and here’s more about it

Speech Recognition as “Cool Technology of the Week”

Department of Defense and VA to Exchange Trauma Data – Medical Records

Going live with Microsoft HealthVault - Chart Integration at the Hospital

Standards for Clinical Summaries, Labs, E-Prescribing...