Browse by Tags

Grady Hospital Gets a Technology Make Over And Is No Longer Losing Money (Video)

This is pretty amazing as not too long ago we all read about the desperate conditions at Grady Hospital. Bar code scanners were brought in that ended medication errors and lot of robots with an updated pharmacy warehouse. They had to do it...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 3:54 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Intel, Health IT, Budgets, Pharmacy, robots, Grady Memorial Hospital, medical reocrds, pateint tracking

Stater Bros. Super Rx Pharmacy Offers Free Diabetic Medication Prescriptions And $4.00 Generic Drug Program

Stater Brothers is a southern California Grocery Chain and also has pharmacies at some of their locations. According to the press release a patient needs to have a prescription from a doctor to get their diabetic medicine. In addition I put...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2010 3:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Pharma, Prescriptions, Pharmacy, Medications, southern California, Stater Brothers

First Annual DEA Drug Take Back Day Yielded 700 Pounds of Unused and Expired Prescriptions in Long Beach, CA

In case you missed it this was the first attempt to allow consumers to dump unused and expired drugs, no questions asked. They were smart in Long Beach and set up a drive through operation-throw out the drugs. DEA Heads Up First Ever Nationwide...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2010 12:18 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Prescriptions, DEA, Pharmacy, medicaitons, Patients, websites, Long Beach, disposal, disposemymeds, National Comminity Pharmacists Association, Drug Take Back Day

DEA Heads Up First Ever Nationwide Prescription Drug Take Back Day–No Questions Asked On September 25, 2010

The press release states there are no questions asked and this is completely anonymous and has listings on their site for all the locations. I tried in Orange County and found none, but the site said more locations will be added between now and...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2010 7:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Prescriptions, DEA, Pharmacy, medicaitons, Patients, websites, disposal, disposemymeds, National Comminity Pharmacists Association, Drug Take Back Day

MedCentre Prescription Kiosk ATM-Like Machines May Give Pharmacies Some Competition in the UK – Installed at 5 Hospitals in the UK

There are 340 medications stored inside and the machine does the filling of the script and the tele-pharmacist verifies the machine's calculations before giving the ok. So far the machine has not made any mistakes. I wrote about the company...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2010 1:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, UK, Prescriptions, e-prescribing, e-Prescriptions, Pharmacy, Kiosk, NHS, pharmacists, Pharma-Trust

Scottish Hospital Using Robots to Perform Tasks Such as Cleaning, Delivering Supplies And Dispensing Drugs

This is not quite what I expected to see as these guys look like small fork lifts that will be running around taking care of business. When you watch the video you can see they have their own assigned areas in the basement and a PDA can simply give...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2010 9:37 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Pharmacy, NHS, Sensors, infections, robots, cleaning, supplies, Scotland

Don’t Flush Unused Medications – We Don’t Want Your Prozac in the Water – Dispose My Meds Website Can Help

If you live too far and absolutely need to dispose of drugs, go the store and get some kitty litter. I am guessing you would need to crunch the pills too before mixing with the kitty litter. It’s amazing these days what kitty litter is used...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2010 11:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, Prescriptions, Pharmacy, medicaitons, Patients, websites, disposal, disposemymeds, National Comminity Pharmacists Association

Cisco TelePresence Expanding Beyond Healthcare with Collaboration with Bank of America

If you read the Quack often enough there are several posts about Cisco’s investment in healthcare. Below are a couple fairly recent posts. The banks are also climbing aboard now to save travel time and create better collaboration methodologies...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 12:46 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Cisco, Surface, Pharmacy, Heatlh IT, software, Code, Heatlhcare, Wall Street, Algorithms, Banks, Profits, Microsoft Surface, healthcare reform, Bank of America, dividends, Star Wars

Cisco’s Vision of the Future – Video Showing Virtual Assistants and Microsoft Surface With Healthcare

This shows some very neat technology. First of all we have the virtual assistant, which I have talked about before on the blog. Microsoft Does Talking Heads – The Virtual Assistant Cisco and Healthcare Technology – Hospitalist Avatar And Other...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2010 10:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Cisco, Surface, Pharmacy, Heatlh IT, software, Code, Heatlhcare, Microsoft Surface, Star Wars

Rite Aid Offers H1N1 Shot for $15.00 In Several States

Technorati Tags: H1N1 , Rite Aid , flu shot , healthcare , immunization , pharmacy , Swine Flu If you have not had the chance to get a shot yet, here’s one more alternative that is affordable. You can visit the website and put in your zip code and...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 4:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, Pharmacy, Rite Aid, immunization, Swine Flu, H1N1, flu shot

War Veterans to Participate in a Study for Automated Medication Delivery System

The study is an attempt to find better ways to help patients take their medications. This is an issue even outside the military and in 2 locations the automated EMMA system will be put into place. The system reminds with both the screen an...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 10:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Physician, healthcare, Pills, FDA, Robotics, Patient, Pharmacy, wireless, medication management, pill delivery unit, EMMA

ApoThera Medication Management and Review Services – Using HealthVault Medication Records You Share for Access

This company also works with Microsoft HealthVault and and is an annual subscription to have your medications reviewed by their pharmacists/consultants before a provider can add any additional medications to your regime. So far it is available in...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 11:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, privacy, Medical Records, Education, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Pharmacy, Medications, consultant, ApoThera

Walgreens Partners with Microsoft HealthVault to Populate Medication History in PHR

Microsoft HealthVault is adding a new partner and if you are familiar with Google Health, you may have already seen their interface that can be used. The HealthVault connection will be available later this year. You will need to set up an...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2009 1:57 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, Medical Devices, PHR, e-prescribing, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, Pharmacy, Walgreen, personal health record

What’s in a Prescription Bottle – Ask Target

I have had a prescription in the new bottle and I do have to say I did look twice when I picked up my first one. The ClearRx program goes much beyond the bottle though and entails an entire new procedure brought in by the pharmacies. They...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2009 9:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, target, Prescriptions, Marketing, Pharmacy, Heatlhcare, Safety, CRM Software, IT, branding

Gunman Shoots 2 and takes own life at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

Very sad to hear this today at Long Beach Memorial. The article from the LA Times states the motive is still unclear, but that there was word of upcoming layoffs that could have had some influence. No name has been released yet, but those...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2009 8:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Pharmacy, Stress, Long Beach Memorial Hospital, lay offs, gunman, shooting

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives