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FDA will open inspection office in China this year

Some of the duties will be outsourced, but under the control of a local office, and portions of this provision will need an act of Congress, so I might guess now’s the time, or after the election maybe to tackle this issue. I would also like to...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 10:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, FDA, China, Outsourcing, Food products, Congress Pharma

The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers

This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 3:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms

Surveying Consumer Access to Rx Data

One more survey, do we really need to spend this money, I think we have a pretty good idea here that it is not many. My personal opinion here would be to spend the money and enable and educate folks on how this can be done, rather than to see how...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 12:55 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, drugs, Pharma, PHR, Online RX, Survey

Monday Special: A Gift Bag of Resource Websites for Healthcare Managers

A nice word of thanks to Mary Pat Whaley for adding the information about the links to where the $4.00 generic drugs can be found easily at the Medical Quack. I put the resources on the site to make it simple so one does not have to navigate each...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2008 11:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, Blogs, Prescriptions, Practice Management

When Pay for Performance and $4.00 Generic Prescriptions Hit the Wall

This is something in my conversations with physicians that keeps coming up, so I thought I would write up a post. On this blog I provide links to the $4.00 and other cost saving areas for anyone, insurance or no insurance to find the best cost on...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 8:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Physician, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, HMO, Pay for Performance, Cash Patient

FDA Index on Drug Alerts

I spent a little time looking around today and there are many "red stars" on this page, which indicate a safety alert from the FDA. Safety alerts come in all shapes and sizes and a red start does not mean to stop taking medications by...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2008 12:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, drugs, Pharma, FDA, Drug Information, Warnings

Widow Sues After Husband's Suicide – Side Effects?

There seems to be a flurry of lawsuits of late, related to unknown or somewhat known psychological side effects from selected pharma products, and this is one more on the way. I am sure there’s much more research to go on, but how many of the products...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 10:46 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, drugs, FDA, Phizer

WellPoint settles Calif. lawsuit and Who’s going to China?

Good news to help some of the financially strapped hospitals here in California, but how much will each one actually see, as 11.8 million among 480 hospitals is not a huge chunk of change. In the meantime though, the current woes for WellPoint continue...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 1:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, health insurance, FDA, Blue Cross, China, UnitedHealthcare

China Blasts U.S. Probe Into Heparin - Opinion

Will we ever get to the bottom of this with anyone accepting the blame, and much less perhaps offer any type of apology? The sad fact of the matter is that the element of "trust" is nowhere to be mentioned ...is there a price for "cheaper"...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 10:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Medicine, drugs, healthcare, heparin

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