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Boston Scientific Suspending Sales of Implanted Heart Defibrillators – 2 Production Changes Not Cleared by the FDA

Here’s more bad news for the company with an expensive recall. In addition to “stent wars” the company also participates in this highly competitive area. Just last year the company received approval for a new stent, so I guess when they are...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 9:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, tags, Medical Devices, Heart Disease, FDA, Heatlhcare, Implants, Boston Scientific, recall, Defibrillators

Paper Medical Records Found Dumped in Fast Food Trash Container – Add Shredders To “Meaningful Use” Please!

The old paper records keep showing up in new places, this time in the trash at a fast food building. I said this a while back and I think it still holds true, we some public shredders please! Public Shredders Please! Medical Record Dumping...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 8:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, Health IT, HIPAA, heathcare, Heatlhcare, Security Breach, Shredders, Fast Food

RememberItNow! Web Based Program and PHR – Text Messages and Emails Sent for Medication Reminders

We have one more new entry into the PHR business and this service will send messages to your cell phone to remind you when to take your pills. We are talking about “compliance” once more. Again, you can share this information with whom you...

Published Fri, Mar 03 2010 7:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Health IT, PHR, Personal Health Records, software, cell phones, Heatlhcare, Medications, text messages, RememberItNow

Bayer USB Contour USB Plug and Play Device Available for Diabetics for Glucose Monitoring in the UK and Ireland

Medical devices that report data continue to evolve. I do have to say that I never thought that I would hear plug and play with diabetes monitoring in the same device or sentence. You can find out more at the FAQ section and the device is...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 1:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, FDA, Diabetes, software, Heatlhcare, Bayer, Computer, glucose monitoring, devices that report data, plug and play, Contour USB

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Creates Web Based Registry Proto-Type Software With CCR Standards to Populate From EHR/EMR Records With Reporting Format for CMS

Many EHR and EMR programs already have this functionality built in and years ago I wrote one, so registries are nothing new but are valuable as the reports, with graphic and visuals give the MD or practice a snapshot view on their own statistics. ...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 11:08 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, EHR, doctor, Heatlh IT, Heatlhcare, Interoperability, Open Source Software, ehealth, interchange, CONNECT, registries, National Health Information Network, ONC, practice, pophealth

Merck Buying Millipore in Massachusetts for $6 billion – Life Sciences and Chemicals Acquisition

As mentioned before, Merck is heavy in cash resources and now is buying US firm Millipore. One other item of interest too is that we always think of Merck as a pharma company only, when in fact their chemical division has interests outside of the...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 9:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, medicare, Pharma, Merck, Heatlhcare, Medco, Life Sciences, chemicals, Bravo health, Millipore, acquisitions and mergers

Prostitutes in Switzerland Being Trained to Use Defibrillators – Bad Publicity When Clients Die Without Attempts to Revive

We have probably all chuckled a bit as this being a way to go, but it doesn’t have to be as in Switzerland they are taking the matter seriously and ordering defibrillators to be on available at the brothels and sex clubs. A couple years ago in Orange...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 8:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Heart Attack, Heart, Heatlhcare, cardiac arrest, Switzerland, exercise, heart trouble, brothels, Defibrillators

The Wireless Future of Medicine – The Forgotten Element of Meaningful Use -Eric Topol –TED 2010 (Video)

Here’s my equation for wireless – the data needs to go somewhere. If you are a regular reader here you have seen everything Eric Topol talks about and a lot more. What is cool is to see him wearing the stick on heart monitor. What we...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 10:45 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Cell phone, Medical Devices, Personal Health Records, Heatlhcare, wireless, blue tooth, TED, Fitbit, devices that report data, biometric monitoring, Muve

Take your Vital Signs at Microsoft – The Health/Lifestyle Room At Redmond

Hugo Ortega, a Microsoft MVP and Tablet PC fanatic like myself was traveling this week to include his annual trip to Microsoft and while on campus there he stumbled upon the Health/Lifestyle room for employees and staff, (of course they would have one...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 1:39 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, microsoft, Touchscreen, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Heatlhcare, vital signs, Annual meeting, MVP

Nurse Write Anonymous Letter Reporting a Doctor to the State and Is Going to Trial - Texas

This is the strangest story here and in reading it, the procedures for investigating were wrong. I look at the Sheriff who got a search order and went to confiscate the computers of the nurses from their home. Certainly it sounds like there...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2010 10:13 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Lawsuit, doctor, Heatlhcare, Whistleblowers, nurses, Texas Medical Board

Health Net Posts 4th Quarter and Annual Loss And Giving Many Insured Free Credit Services

The security breach this year was probably something I am guessing they can wish did not happen, nobody wants that and now the Attorney General of Connecticut is suing over the issue. Where’s the money coming from since they too are losing individual...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2010 1:59 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, HMO, Patient, Heatlhcare, UnitedHealthcare, Tri-Care, HealthNet, loss, reform, hopsital

Arkansas Children’s Hospital – A Group of First Year Residents – A Very Stressful and Demanding Job

If you happened to miss the show last week, it’s embedded here from Dateline’s show. I watched it myself and they show some real life situations and have frank discussions with the interns, the long hours, the lack of much of social life. If you...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 11:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, Pediatrics, Heatlhcare, Stress, emergencies, Dateline, interns, Arkansas Children's Hospital

RitePen – Inking Within an EHR on a Tablet PC – Runs from Citrix Server Too

I use RitePen software on my tablet and it makes it easier than having to locate the tip to enter data and there’s much more it can do. There’s a small learning curve as there is with any software, but you can take up the entire screen to write...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 1:49 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, EMR, EHR, Heatlhcare, Inking, Microsoft Office, handwriting to text, RitePen, write anywhere, tablet enhancements, Citrix, data entry, prescrptions

Wireless Biometric Monitoring Device Gets Sticky – It Wants to Be Attached Near the Heart of the Issue

We have new entry into the body monitoring, behavioral information data arena, but unlike other that clip on, this one sticks on. I guess the closer the devices get the better the data? This one is not here the US, well yet anyway, but we...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 9:38 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Cell phone, Medical Devices, Heatlhcare, wireless, Big Brother, blue tooth, Muve Gruve, Fitbit, devices that report data, biometric monitoring

Jury Trial Awards 37 Million to a Woman After Her Health Insurance Was Cancelled When She Seriously Injured in a Car Accident

If there enough said here with the public getting tired of hearing these stories of cancellations? The reason behind the cancellation or at least given by the insurance company was for a couple omissions of information on past history, a visit to...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2010 9:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Heatlhcare, Legal Suits, Trust, Algorithms, treatments, cancellations, car accident

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