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GE Healthcare Becomes the Next Medical Records System to Offer Ipad and Iphone Software Solutions

It is certainly beginning to look like the Ipad is becoming a working hardware partner in the medical records business as GE is the latest to announce Centricity Advanced and Centricity Practice Solutions coming to an Ipad soon. Back in January...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 3:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, Patient, Heatlhcare, Doctors, GE Healthcare, iPhone, healthcrare, HeatlhIT, IPad

Surgery Gives Man a Second Beating Heart

A man receives a transplant, but also keeps his own existing heart. This is not performed very often but in this case it saved the man having to go under a second surgical procedure. The 2 hearts are attached to each other and work together...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 11:52 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Heart Disease, Patient, Transplant, Heart Surgery, heart valves, cardiovascular surgery, San Diego, LCAD

85 Year Old Surgeon Gets 3 Years Probation in Death of Patient Under Going Cosmetic Surgery-Economic Times With Retired MDs Re-Entering Practicing Medicine?

You have to wonder about this case as yes it is unfortunate the woman died and the article states he had not performed surgery in over 5 years, so one has to ask, why now? Was this driven by economic times as an MD who needed the money? Is...

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

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Lawsuit, Plastic Surgery, Patient, California, Heatlhcare, Orange County, Medical License, Economics, Money, surgeon

American Academy of Family Physicians Offering Physician’s Direct for Secure Electronic Communications Between Physicians By Subscription

Since the Government Direct Program has gone live, there’s a lot of talk and ways to go with being able to finally securely communicate. Back in October of last year, SureScripts announced their offering for this service too, an alternative but...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 5:38 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Email, EHR, Health IT, PHR, Patient, doctor, Surescripts, American Academy of Family Physicians, subscription

Hospitals And Police Agency Budgets Battle Over Arrests When Suspects Need Medical Care-Unarrest and Re-arrest

We have yet one more battle of budgets with suspects or individuals being arrested needing medical care before they can be brought to a police station and we come back around to money. Apparently at least in California, if someone who is arrested...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2011 12:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, ER Room, Patient, Hospitals, Budgets, Money, police, medical care, arrests, non arrest, suspect, La Jolla

MHealth: Mobile Technology Used in Spain and UK–Knee Therapy Post Surgery (Video)

This is something new that I had not seen yet with a patient who has had a knee replacement and he uses telemedicine with a device attached to his knew and his computer to complete his daily therapy. The patient feels better doing it at home as...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 3:59 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Patient, Budgets, doctor, Therapy, Europe, mobile health, Spain, mHealth, Telefonica, recovery, telcoms

VA Expanding Use of Health IT For Aging Veterans and Those With Chronic Conditions

This is interesting when you look at what is reported below in the fact that patients prefer to use regular phones to communicate versus a free smart phone that one group was given. I think this makes a point on education and bringing folks up to...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2010 11:09 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Telemedicine, VA, Patient, doctor, Home Monitoring, wireless, Telehealth, medical care, pilot programs

Emergency Room Imaging Costs Rise Sharply Which Would Be Expected With The Ability to Create an Accurate Diagnosis And Lower Radiation Exposure with Newer Devices On the Rise

We come back around again to the question of both safety and money on this topic and I don’t there’s a doctor around who would hesitate ordering an image if he needed it for a diagnosis, but granted there’s the other side of the coin with a few that see...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2010 3:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Devices, MRI, ER Room, Patient, Budgets, doctor, China, Diagnosis, Imaging, Admissions, United HealthCare, Ingenix, radiation, CT Scanner

Sanofi-Aventis Has a Glucose Reader and Software That Will Attach to an iPhone–Still Needs FDA Approval

The device is said to cost around $80.00 when available. The iBGStar attaches to the phone and does the data work. It has an option to be used while plugged into the phone too. As usual, there’s new technology and the hot stuff here according...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2010 5:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Mobility, FDA, Patient, Diabetes, Personal Health Records, Physicain, software, Glucose, iPhone, devices that report data, consumer, app, mHealth, iBGStar

Mobile Medical Device Software and Sensors–Who’s Going to End Up With the Value and Staying Power Once the Novelty Wears Off-Anybody Feeling the Love Today From the Devices?

There’s almost not a day that goes by where there’s not some new mobile application in the news. My question is, what is going to end up being a standard and in fact useful without more glut. I said a while back that mobile meaningful use was overlooked...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2010 4:41 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, Mobility, Patient, Devices, Algorithms, TED, Insurance companies, Fitbit, Non participants, devices that report data, mHealth, health IT literacy, Gary Wolf

Arizona State University Gets a Big Boost with Biopharmaceutical Clinical Trials–Partnering With Quintiles To Bring More Patient Opportunities to the State

Today we get to recognize and look at some other good things going in the State of Arizona beside the web chatter about their governor, something that can make a difference and save lives. One of the dream teams from Stand up to Cancer is located...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2010 3:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, drugs, healthcare, Cancer, clinical trials, Patient, Grants, R and D, Stand up to Cancer, TGEN, ASU, Quintiles

Johns Hopkins Hospital Shooting–Doctor Expected to Survive–Hospital has Over 80 Entrances to Police

We hear about more incidents as such as hospitals today and with 80 entrances someone got by with a gun as security police do check for this but can’t get everyone or have metal detectors at every door. From what is stated here the fact that his...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2010 4:13 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Surgery, Security, Patient, doctor, Johns Hopkins, Stress, shooting, vilence

Patients Have No Way of Knowing If They Have Been Admitted or Not–Setting Patient Status is Confusing with Parameters Set by Software Tools to Meet the Designated Parameters

The article states a tool designed by McKesson is the software of choice that many hospitals use to guide the decision making process. As a patient if you are kept for observation, given a bed, meal, etc. that does not mean you have been “officially admitted...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 12:48 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Hospital, medicare, medical billing, Patient, CMS, Nursing Homes, outpatient, billing, confusion, inpatient

Long Island MD Michael Eisenberg–Phone Sex With Patient Cost Him His Medical License

This seems to be quite a long series of messages via text and phone calls. The female patient told his wife and the patient had threatened suicide if he stopped. The doctor is 65 and the patient is 26. Strangely enough the doctor treated...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2010 2:35 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Cell phone, Patient, Medical License, Doctors, text messages, addictions, relationship

Personal Health Records–Updated and New Link under the Medical Quack Resources Column

I like to keep the far right hand side open for both advertisers and resources to be used by healthcare individuals as well as consumers. Today I did an update with both the graphics and added a new PHR to the list, Patient Ally. Patient Ally is...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2010 5:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, privacy, Medical Records, Email, PHR, Google Health, Patient, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, doctor, AMA, Blue Shield, network, Patient Ally, Office AllyCalifornia

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