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Helicos BiosSciences and Personalized Medicine - Featured Interview with Dr. Patrice Milos

Patrice Milos, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Helicos Biosciences This week I had the opportunity to talk with Patrice Milos from Helicos Biosciences who has a long background in global research and spent a number of years at Pfizer as Executive...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2008 1:16 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, personalized medicine, healthcare, Electronic Medical Records, Biotech, cancer research, Research, Gene Sequencing, Disease, DNA Testing, Phamaceuticals, Helios

Allscripts User Conference - Electronic Records Update

New rebranding information - Allscripts had renamed many of their current products, read the entire article for additional information from the conference. BD Allscripts has decided to rebrand their “solutions”! Maybe it’s...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 4:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Electronic Medical Records, Allscripts

IMedica not satisfied with current agreement with Misys Electronic Medical Records and looking to terminate the contract..

Dispute among the EMR/EHR vendors, and Misys in in the process of merging with Allscripts, so perhaps too much at once? 2 small sales of the rebranded software in the amount of time might give anyone's sales and marketing departments a little...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 12:55 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, EHR, Electronic Medical Records, Mysis, iMedica

Americans Want Next President To Prioritize Health IT Efforts

In addition, Health Information Technology has a series of upcoming web events to to teach interoperability. One subject that I have written about substantially on the site here is Business Intelligence, and yes there’s a seminar for that too! ...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 3:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Computers, Medical Records, EHR, Health Care, Electronic Medical Records, PHR, Heatlh IT

Blues Plan Joins Google Health PHR

Personal health plans are moving forward with Blue Cross in Massachusetts joining the cause by providing information to be imported in to the PHR. This is just the start as I’m sure in the time this will be targeted to be a 2 way street, with insurers...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 1:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Electronic Medical Records, PHR, Blue Cross, medical health records

HHS Secretary Announces 12 Communities Selected To Advance Use Of Electronic Health Records In First Ever National Demonstration

As many as 1200 primary care physicians will participate in the pilot program. There are 2 phases to the project and recruitment of practices will begin in the fall. So far, there’s no mention of the software to be used, and it appears to...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 9:27 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, EHR, Electronic Medical Records, HHS

Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft Empower Consumers to Take Charge of Their Health Pilot program will allow voluntary data exchange from Kaiser Permanente’s market-leading personal health record to Microsoft® HealthVault™

The competition for being “connected” with personal health records continues. Earlier this year Google made their announcements and this agreement with Kaiser looks to be pretty substantial. The key now is to encourage more consumers to take...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 8:40 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, Medical Records, EHR, Microsoft Healthcare, Electronic Medical Records, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Kaiser Permanente

EMR deadline does not compute: Falling short of 2014 goals

The article goes into detail on the many reasons...insurers are the bigger benefactors...and some states like Massachusetts are coming up to the plate with the E-health collaborative pilot project...and one other comment of importance ..."EMRs are...

Published Sun, May 05 2008 10:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, medical, Health Care, Health IT, Electronic Medical Records

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