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Nurses Hold One Day Strike at Kaiser's Sunset Boulevard Medical Center (Los Angeles) To Bring Attention To Patient Safety

The Los Angeles Kaiser facility takes care of some of the sickest patients and thus the nurses feel some additional attention is needed here. There has not been a strike at the facility in over 20 years. The policies with nurse staffing according...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2011 1:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Surgery, healthcare, PHR, Kaiser Permanente, Heatlh IT, personal heatlh records, nurses, strike, Heatlh Connect, registry

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

HIMSS EHR Association And Regional Extension Centers Create Affiliation Called the Vendor Communications Workgroup

It appears medical record vendors as mentioned in a prior post have found another marketing partner with the REC centers offering discounts for purchase with licensing and now with HIMSS involved I’m not exactly sure how this will add more value, but...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 10:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EHR, HHS, Heatlh IT, Doctors, collaboration, HITECH, ONC, Regional Extension Centers, REC, HIMSS, Vendor Communications Group

Department of Defense to Seed $500 Million For Companies to Develop Dual Use Technologies-“Collaboration Not Innovation” DOD Can’t Keep Pace With the Iphone

Well here you have it, an admittance of not being up to speed with technology and again this goes back to the prior administration and their neglect of technology with the “non participants”. The US Government is paying for this in almost every...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2011 7:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, Grants, Heatlh IT, CMS, DOD, Department of Defense, iPhone, pentagon, Silicon Valley, luddites

IBM and Nuance to Work on “Watson” (The Distant Cousin of Dr. Watson) Perhaps Affordable Technology for Use In Healthcare If Private Equity Investors Stay Out Of It

For those of you who might wonder why is the computer called “Watson”, here's little background that might lead to some interesting reading. Dr. Watson has been around a long time. Actually the first Dr. Watson appeared with IBM as a program...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2011 3:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Hospitals, Nuance, Heatlh IT, Dictation, Speech Recognition, Intelligence, IBM, Watson, super computer

General Dynamics And McKesson Receive Contracts to Assist Department of Defense Health Systems to Include AHLTA and Vista-How Many Hands are In this Contract Pot?

Every time you turn around we keep hearing of yet another new contract for the VA and DOD and here’s more. Are they going to give up on their own and get one from McKesson? In the meantime there’s a lot of development going on with VistA too...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 2:54 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, McKesson, VA, Heatlh IT, Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, collaboration, innovation, GAO. Government Accounting Office, General Dynamics

The Veterans Administration and Department of Defense Need Better Collaboration Says the General Accounting Office

Well obviously this is spreading to the government entities and we are seeing some verification here too on the need to collaborate. Everyone is stuck on the “Innovation” word but really it takes care of itself, collaboration is what is needed....

Published Sun, Feb 02 2011 4:06 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, VA, Heatlh IT, Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, collaboration, innovation, GAO. Government Accounting Office

eMix Medical Information Exchange Using Virtualization Via VMware To Securely Transfer Patient Data to EHRS and PHRs With PACS Image Company DR Systems

eMix is yet one more way to use a secure web based cloud product to exchange medical records and their emphasis seems to be with medical images. There are a few others who have entered this field of late. The service reminds me of one that I used...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2011 12:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, EHR, PACS, Heatlh IT, Cloud Computing, Phthalates, VMWare, images, exchanges, medical exams, eMix

HandiScope The First Mobile Connected Dermatoscope For the IPhone

The product is made in Germany and when you look at the quality of the imagining it looks pretty good. Images can be connected to patient files and notes added as well as emailing to the patient, another doctor, etc. The device just slides...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 2:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Devices, Mobility, Heatlh IT, Dermatology, Germany, iPhone, mHealth, Handyscope, mobile heatlh, moles

What’s Happening at ONC REC Centers and HIE Initiative Centers-Connecting, Licensing, Training and Getting A Little Cozy?

It has taken a little while to get started and now we have some information making to the news today relative to the funding for the Regional Extension Centers from the National ONC group. These are groups that are not part of the government but...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 5:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EHR, HHS, Heatlh IT, Doctors, HITECH, ONC, Regional Extension Centers, REC

Regional Extension Center (REC) Working in Florida-What the Centers Are Doing to Help Physicians With Electronic Medical Records

Part of the program t to help physicians convert to electronic medical records was the establishment of Regional Extension Centers across the US to give doctors a helping hand. They come in different shapes and sizes and some services are free and...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 1:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EHR, HHS, Heatlh IT, Doctors, HITECH, ONC, Regional Extension Centers, REC

Health Data Tech Labs to Test EHRs To Provide Independent and Expert Reviews

The software will be run on Dell electronic equipment and this will allow experts to test drive and write up their evaluations and opinions. This is not a certification service at all, just one that allows testing and role playing to allow for additional...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 10:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Labs, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Hospitals, Heatlh IT, Doctors, Sofware, test drive, Dell computer, Health Data Tech Labs

Hospital Security Breach–Hacker Fakes Out Employees and Asks for Their Email and Log In Information And They Gave It To Him

No real technology needed to break in this time when employees hand out their email addresses and log on information. If the hacker said he was within the hospital system working in IT, then he would have known this information or would have worked...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2011 9:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Email, HIPAA, Heatlh IT, Doctors, Security Breach, Patients, St. Vincent, Indianapolis

Kaiser Permanente Registry Information Pays Off With Hip and Knee Replacements For Patient Having Double Hip Surgery (Video)

Here’s a story from a patient who had double hip replacement surgery at the Kaiser facility in Irvine, California. I have mentioned before the registry of valuable information that Kaiser Permanente gathers on devices and outcomes. The information...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2011 3:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Surgery, healthcare, PHR, Kaiser Permanente, Heatlh IT, Knee Surgery, Hip Surgery, personal heatlh records, Bar Codes, Heatlh Connect, registry

Varian Medical Systems Receives FDA Clearance for its Proton Therapy System

Last year at this time, Varian was not a real popular name due to the over exposure of radiation associated with their units and with the FDA approval I might guess that software certification was probably even more stringent at the FDA before approval...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 8:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Education, Cancer, FDA, Heatlh IT, software, Heatlhcare, Safety, Algorithms, New York, Treatment plans, Varian System, accountability, radation treatment

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