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St. Joseph Health Systems To Roll Out Allscripts Software As Service Care Management and HomeCare And Will Work with AT&T for Telehealth Stations

This is a combination post of a couple of new things going on with St. Josephs Health Systems. First of all the Allscripts Software as a Service will be rolled out to help track patients through their system and secondly the Home care unit will...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 5:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Cisco, Physicians, PHR, Hospitals, Heatlh IT, Software as a Service, Allscripts, wellness, AT&T, pilot, urgent care, St. Josephs Health System

Two Teleradiology Companies Become One as Virtual Radiologic Acquires to acquire NightHawk

Just a few months ago Nighthawk went through some major upgrades at their headquarters. If you are not familiar with teleradiology those are the folks that read images 24/7 and this can happen when you are at a rural hospital or any location to...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2010 8:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Cisco, PACS, Radiology, Medical Imaging, Outsourcing, Emergency Care, Nighthawk, Teleradiology, X-Rays, Scans, Virtual Radiologic

West Wireless Center Hosting First Health Care Innovation Day in Washington DC In October–Bring on The Mobile Aggregators

If you are a regular reader here then you have probably heard about the West Wireless Institute in San Diego and Dr. Eric Topol who spoke at the TED conference this year and is the Scripps Director of of Translational Science. CareFusion, Cisco and Medtronic...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2010 1:04 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Cisco, Medtronics, Scripps, Telehealth, blue tooth, Zigbee, devices that report data, West Wireless Health Institute, Wireless heatlhcare, Eric Totpol, Carefusion

Molina Healthcare Moves Into Texas to Provide Healthcare Services for Low Income Children and Pregnant Women in Rural Counties With Subsidiary Molina Healthcare of Texas Insurance Company

Molina Healthcare has been expanding their services to rural areas and earlier this year launched their telemedicine program in California, with our Governor attending the launch. In there expansion there have been a few bumps in the road as you...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2010 1:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Cisco, Mobility, HMO, Twitter, California, Telehealth, governor, Texas, Web visits, Molina Healthcare, Unisys

Molina Delayed Medicaid Provider Payments in Idaho– Working to Get the System Fixed–Good Example of Why IT Literate Individuals Need to be in Key Positions To Explain & Fix

I guess it was this system they purchased from Unisys that is causing the problem. I think we are experiencing a time when decisions are made, it is extremely important to have an IT person around with some hands on experience as otherwise sometimes...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 1:06 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Cisco, Mobility, HMO, Twitter, California, Telehealth, governor, Web visits, Molina Healthcare, Unisys, Idaho

Nighthawk Tele-Radiology Services Gets a Major Upgrade with Cisco And Virtualization

I have covered Nighthawk before and if you have had imaging done after hours at a hospital your images could have been read with their service. One of the biggest outsourced markets in the world. They do more than just the US, it’s global and images...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2010 7:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Cisco, PACS, Radiology, Medical Imaging, Outsourcing, Emergency Care, Nighthawk, Teleradiology, X-Rays, Scans

Molina Healthcare Acquiring Abri Health in Wisconsin – Purchasing Another Health Plan

Back in February Moline had purchased the Unisys Health Management program with managing the care for the company 900 employees. Molina Healthcare Acquiring Unisys Health Information Management for Approximately 135 Million This was actually announced...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2010 10:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, medicare, Cisco, Mobility, HMO, Medicaid, California, Telehealth, governor, Web visits, Molina Healthcare, Abri

UnitedHealthCare – New Video Demonstrating a Remote Doctor Visit With Connected Care

If you are a regular reader here you know I have posted several articles about the big investment United has made with Cisco systems and a few other videos as well The link below was from an article from about this time last year. It kind...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 9:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Cisco, Physicians, Congress, Business Intelligence, UnitedHealthcare, payers, Telehealth, balance, monopoly

CareFusion, Cisco and Medtronic to Collaborate With West Wireless Health Institute on Technology – Additional Grants Awarded From Philanthropists Gary and Mary West

If you have not heard of the West Wireless Health Institute, I have posted about some of their activity in the past. Also in the news this week about the institute, philanthropists Gary and Mary West will give $25 million to the West Wireless Health...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2010 2:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Cisco, Medtronics, Scripps, Telehealth, blue tooth, Zigbee, devices that report data, West Wireless Health Institute, Wireless heatlhcare, Eric Totpol, Carefusion

Planned Parenthood Uses Telemedicine Web Cam to Dispense Pills and Consult with MD

This is currently happening in the heartland, in Iowa. The conference is set up via web cams at each location. Once completed the remote location doctor can remotely open a drawer that will dispense the medication and it has to be take in...

Published Tue, May 05 2010 7:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Cisco, Pills, Telemedicine, doctor, WebCam, abortions, steriod, birth contol, Planned Parenthood

Cisco TelePresence Expanding Beyond Healthcare with Collaboration with Bank of America

If you read the Quack often enough there are several posts about Cisco’s investment in healthcare. Below are a couple fairly recent posts. The banks are also climbing aboard now to save travel time and create better collaboration methodologies...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 12:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Cisco, Surface, Pharmacy, Heatlh IT, software, Code, Heatlhcare, Wall Street, Algorithms, Banks, Profits, Microsoft Surface, healthcare reform, Bank of America, dividends, Star Wars

Cisco CEO John Chambers' Fascinated With Ducks – Participatory Quacking

Well he’s not calling the Medical Quack though:) Ducks have been known as well as other birds and animals to be a source of stress relief, unless of course you read this blog here, it will stress you out with technology if you are anywhere near...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 6:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, My Commentaries, Cisco, Humor, Medical Quack, Patents, Ducks, Medical Humor, Quacks, pharmacoducknetics

Molina Healthcare Acquiring Unisys Health Information Management for Approximately 135 Million

This was actually announced last month but in case you missed it Molina is purchasing the healthcare management end of Unisys. Their area of market is HMO services in area where they presently may not be available and with the purchase expansion...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2010 11:11 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Cisco, Mobility, HMO, Twitter, California, Telehealth, governor, Web visits, Molina Healthcare, Unisys

Cisco Systems and Molina Healthcare HMO Announce Telemedicine Pilot Program – Long Beach, California

I caught wind of this today earlier with a tweet and picture on Twitter from our Governor. I wonder how many other states have a governor that uses Twitter? Getting back on track here, this is a pilot program with Molina Healthcare, headquartered...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2010 3:24 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Cisco, Mobility, HMO, Twitter, California, Telehealth, governor, video consultations, Web visits, Molina Healthcare

Cisco’s Vision of the Future – Video Showing Virtual Assistants and Microsoft Surface With Healthcare

This shows some very neat technology. First of all we have the virtual assistant, which I have talked about before on the blog. Microsoft Does Talking Heads – The Virtual Assistant Cisco and Healthcare Technology – Hospitalist Avatar And Other...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2010 10:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Cisco, Surface, Pharmacy, Heatlh IT, software, Code, Heatlhcare, Microsoft Surface, Star Wars

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