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Poor Understanding Of Medicare Leads To Worse Healthcare Access

When you look at the system, even folks like me who are not in the senior category have issues at times as the system, along with those in place by the insurers get more complicated every day, so what, who, and where still continue to be on the horizon...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 1:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Education, Personal Health Records, CMS, Seniors, commission, audits, PHR Pilot program

Medicare Pilot Personal Health Care Pilot Program – Education and Awareness Needed

This is a good pilot program but the real danger here is: “Each vendor will be responsible for marketing its program to consumers, and each has adopted its own privacy protections.” Once more the consumer will be subjected to additional marketing and...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 12:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, medicare, Education, PHR, Google, Personal Health Records, Arizona, PHR Pilot program

Study Predicts Big Savings from PHRs (Personal Health Records) – Best Kept Secret in Healthcare?

There’s probably no bigger fan of PHRs than yours truly here, but where’s the awareness and out reach here, it doesn’t exist. The technology is out there, but what good is it if nobody uses it or realizes the value. Consumers, much less doctors...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 3:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Education, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, Microsoft HealthVault

CMS names four PHR vendors for Medicare pilot program and includes Google Health

Well so much for certification, it sounds like CMS doesn’t care whether or not PHRs get certified (grin). It is almost an impossible task as well with all the areas of integration to cover, so certification could theoretically be done in perhaps...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 4:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, medicare, Education, PHR, Personal Health Records, CMS, CCHIT

Microsoft looking to China to create new products

The Beijing office was also the birthplace of the Tablet PC, so according to this article they stand to surpass the US areas in the production of software and patents. The one important statement of this entire post is the last paragraph, which...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 10:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Tablet PC, Education, China, Intelligent Property, paradigms

GSK's Witty wants more funds for FDA – Why not step up to the plate with some grants and join the General Education process

This actually a pretty good start and I have had my own campaign of sorts going on with getting the FDA up to speed, and they are definitely having to play catch up, as are some other government agencies. In prior posts I had written that some clinical...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 11:45 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Education, Pharma, FDA, Personal Health Records, GSK, Consumer Healthcare, Drug Interactions

Want to Watch a Live Webcast of a Total Knee Replacement?

On Thursday, November 13th, you can watch it live. One of the resources listed on this site is OR Live. The site is automated to add it to your Outlook calendar as well. Some of the procedures have available CME credit for physicians...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 12:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Surgery, healthcare, Outlook, Education, CME, Knee Surgery, Surgeons, Patients, OR Live, Reminders, Live Broadcast, Surgery Broadcast, DaVinci

Microsoft's Mundie gives campuses peek at Tech's future – Tablet PC

Nice picture on the tablet – a demonstration of synapses in the brain, and we all know how important Tablet PCs are to health care. A couple weeks ago I posted about his presentation at MIT , where there were a number of software and hardware .png...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 3:03 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Tablet PC, Education, University, Recruiting, Craig Mundie

Medco To Begin Working with the FDA – Pharmacogenomics Reporting

This article states part of the reporting system will include information on the willingness of a doctor to use genetic testing, well first of all we need to help the doctors to bring this full circle with the integration into the clinical side of this...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 1:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Genomics, drugs, Education, FDA, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacogenomics, DNA Testing

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month - American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Co-Sponsor

There is a full web page dedicated with several links to obtain the basic information; FAQs can be found here. Get the facts is another site that may be of interest as well. BD Helpful Clinical Trial Information. The American College...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 12:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Education, Cancer, Breast Cancer, R and D, Breast Cancer Awareness, Treatment

Limited Genetic Knowledge Spur Industry to Ramp Up Physician Marketing

Most physicians today are not ready for this yet , with the knowledge and information required for patients who may need genetic testing. DeCode has already come out and announced an increased marketing approach for physicians and here in California...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 11:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Physicians, Education, Pharmacogenomics, Lab Test, DNA Testing, genetic testing, Patients

Celebrity Prostate Exams Too Much Reality TV?

This does present a very good question, myself I have run tired of all the stuff on TV these days, but this is being done with a show that has a good cause, so I guess we shall all see if it is a fit. The Internet is such a wealth of information as well...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 2:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Education, Cancer, Reality TV, YouTube, Entertainment, Prostate Exam

Having trouble losing weight, let your avatar do it in Second Life

Actually this is an experimental program that will help educate people in the process of losing weight and nutrition. So if you are not having success in the real world, here's the chance to try some virtual weight loss and see what you might...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 1:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Second Life, Education, weight loss

YouTube Comes to Tivo Soon…

You Tube as we all know is no longer just entertainment, there’s many good sites for good educational purposes too, such as the FDA Channel and one other new Channel from Johnson and Johnson. So now physician have another way of reaching patients...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 1:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Video, Education, FDA, YouTube, Johnson and Johnson, J & J, Tivo

Meet Prosty the Spokesgland, Petey the Pee Cup and a few more…a Little humor with healthcare…could go a long way..

Well there are a cast of characters here, all designed to use cartoons and mascots to promote better health care. Petey the Pee Cup goes to live events. Pokey Syringe will tell you about his life e as well, and you can find these folks...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 2:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Education, PSA

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