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Doctors Have Become One of the Largest Software Beta Testing Groups–”Magpie Healthcare” Unfortunately Still Thrives

I made this comment on Twitter and actually had a couple medical record companies agree with me, making the point that yes they as well as almost everyone else out there at some point in time has put out some “buggy” software. Let’s face it we want...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 1:03 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Training, medicare, Health IT, Education, PHR, Personal Health Records, pilot program, Magpie Healthcare, value, Non participants, PHR Choice

CMS Head Dr. Don Berwick Addresses the Ways and Means Committee of the House (Luddites Included)

Here we go again with the impossible quest for the perfect answer and there isn’t one but we seem to have those stuck in the 70s still asking the same types of questions and kind of showing some type of juvenile type responses that I would not expect...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 11:51 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, medicare, Congress, CMS, Politics, Algorithms, Medicare Advantage, healthcare reform, ObamaCare, Non participants, Don Berwick, grilling

Kaiser Permanente to Install Bloom Box Fuel Cells at California Facilities

If you have not heard of “fuel cells” EBay and Google are also using them to power their buildings in northern California. Not too long ago 60 minutes did a story covering the “Bloom Boxes” and how they work. They are really not that big compared...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 6:03 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Kaiser Permanente, California, Economy, Non participants, US Government, participants, green technology, hydrogen pump, fuel, visions, Fuel cells

United States and China Create New Public-Private Partnership on Healthcare

I’m not exactly sure what this exactly means since the businesses listed are getting a formal agreement to collaborate as they all do business in China anyway. A Healthcare Professional Personnel Exchange Program will be sending professionals...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2011 4:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, HHS, China, Government, Algorithms, US, press release, jobs, Non participants, Departmetn of Commerce

FDA Announces Recall of Alcohol Prep Pads, Swabs, Swabsticks From Triad–FDA and Manufacturers Should Ashamed-Campaign for Bar Codes Still Stands Stronger Than Ever!

This is by far the biggest neglect of both the FDA and drug/medical device and over the counter healthcare products!! Have you ever tried to return a product to a retail drug store and be told “no” because it’s not on their authorized list!! ...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 9:12 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, FDA, cell phones, Recalls, CVS, Scanning, Walgreens, Microsoft Tags, Bar Codes, Non participants, tech denial, luddites, Triad Group

Governor Schwarzenegger Appoints Members to California Board to Oversee Healthcare Reform

We are going to miss our governor when he leaves office and granted I may not have agreed with him 100% as nobody does that today, but overall he made some decent decisions and moves, especially when it comes to technology. I’m going to miss those “Tweetcast...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2011 9:37 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Health IT, Twitter, California, CMS, Government, healthcare reform, reform, Non participants, exchanges, Schwartzenegger

Constitution Will Read the US Constitution Out Loud when They Return Next Week-Anyone Heard of a Podcast?

I mention podcast as that is how the rest of the US citizens get quite a bit of the information we are responsible or knowing today. How long is this going to take when legislation could be going on? This is the issue today with citizens...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 8:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, medicare, Congress, Politics, digital literacy, healthcare reform, 70s, Non participants, GOP, Pledge to America, * track tapes

In California Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform

California is coming out swinging and putting the IT infrastructure and programs in place to work with reform. There are a couple videos here and this is “try” like almost everything else in healthcare and at least the exchanges are being put in...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 6:52 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, health insurance, Health IT, California, CMS, Government, healthcare reform, reform, Non participants, exchanges, Schwartzenegger

Congress Stops Medicare Pay Cuts for Doctors for Another Year

At least this time we have a year this time so perhaps somewhere along the line a permanent fix could be created. This has gone now for I think around 10 years and correct me if I am wrong here but it’s way over due for a permanent fix as the provisions...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 1:18 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, medicare, Congress, Budgets, AMA, Pay Cuts, Tri-Care, Senate, Doctors, healthcare reform, Non participants, expenses, IT literacy

Personal Health Records – PHR Roundtable At the ONC-Hope All Experts and Attendees Actually Use a PHR-Hands On Experience Coupled with Other Knowledge Is The Best

A little background here on the Medical Quack is that I have been following PHRs since they began with HealthVault and Google Health and actually have a section on the blog with over 300 posts with many ‘how to’s” and a ton of information. What...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 7:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Google Health, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Data, consumers, Non participants, ONC, RoundTable, Mapgie healthcare

Government Agencies Looking for “Cloud First” Solutions To Reduce IT Costs and Save Energy-Will The Senate Decide to Fund?

Here we go once again I believe with an uncompleted understanding of IT technology and a sample of illiteracy at the lawmaking level and why I keep talking about this issue as those folks living in the 70s scare me as they don’t get it. I’ll go...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 1:33 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, Electronic Medical Records, Congress, Hospitals, Senate, Doctors, Laws, security breaches, House, peer to peer, Non participants, tech denial, duh

Government Accounting Office Releases Earth Shattering Report - EHR Systems Can Save Money–What Took Them So Long

As noted at the bottom of this article we all know this but now it is official since members of Congress rely on reports and information from the GAO. This is good for Health IT to have this fact documented, no matter it took so every person in...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 10:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Congress, healthcare reform, Non participants, GAO

Microsoft Study Finds Cloud Computing Is Good for the Environment–US Senate Needs to See This As They Cut Funding For Cloud Services in August

This was a study based on Microsoft products but you can read at the end they felt it would be applicable with products outside of theirs as well. Well heck we know that already as we have read how back at Harvard Medical how much they are saving...

Texas Medical Association and AARP Unite To Stop the Medicare Meltdown in Congress

As of yesterday I believe we have one more 30 day extension and that will last only until the end of the year. It is too bad that Medicare doesn’t operate as inexpensively and efficient as Social Security as far as the tax payer dollars are concerned...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2010 9:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, medicare, AARP, Congress, Budgets, AMA, Pay Cuts, Tri-Care, Senate, Doctors, healthcare reform, Non participants, expenses, IT literacy

Website Created to Report EHR Safety Issues and Share It With the FDA and Other Government Agencies

Hey I have a grand idea here, let’s rate them <grin>, a bad on my part here but with recently writing about all the errors and mistakes on doctor rating sites, could not help myself to give the MDS a little boost if you will. Back in February...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2010 12:24 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Health IT, FDA, HHS, Government, Senate, Algorithms, Grassley, resources, Non participants, tech denial

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