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Joe Biden Talks About His Use of the iPad-Who Did Not Snooze During the State of the Union, But Found a Video of Some Who Did

Sometime last year I made mention that we didn’t have any role models around using much technology and Joe Biden has jumped in there with the Ipad and he uses it to download his speeches and his major use is all the access to the major news outlets. ...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2011 8:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, Twitter, healthare, news, Sleep, Joe Biden, IPad, State of the Union, role model, speeches

Red Cross States National Blood Supply at Lowest Levels in 10 Years-Using Twitter and Social Networks To Find Donors

The extreme cold weather that has hit the east coast of the US is a big part of the problem. Blood supplies have been short for a while as back in June, pies were given away in Iowa in order to entice consumers to give. Red Cross In Iowa Giving...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 1:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Social Networks, Twitter, Heatlhcare, Red Cross, Blood, Donations, plasma, American Red Cross

Skyy Vodka Using Microsoft Tags-We Can Find Out More About What We are Drinking-Would Be Nice if Tylenol & Others Did This

This is cool and the tag works and sent me to the mobile sit for some event listings and again this is cool and too bad we can’t get the same for drugs and medical devices that have been recalled. I’m sure that glucose testing strips might outsell...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 6:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, drugs, microsoft, Medical Devices, Pharma, FDA, Twitter, cell phones, Scanning, vodka, MicrosoftTags, luddites, Skyy

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

Hedge Fund Developed An Algorithm That Can Analyze Twitter To Pick Stocks

This is a small break from the normal healthcare posts but related in the fact that we are talking about “those algos” again and now this British Hedge fund says they have mastered and created an algorithm by searching sentiments on Twitter to find and...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 2:25 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Twitter, Algorithms, tweets, Britian, analytics, hedge fund, sentiments, StockTwits

Abbott Diabetes Care Recalls Tons of Glucose Test Strips–The US Has the FDA Recall Blues-Solution Has Been Touted Here for a Year-It’s Time for a Fix–Readers Have Voted

It’s just about one year now since I started this campaign with using Bar Codes, Microsoft Tags and I’m up to around 60 posts on the topic now, and just about every time there’s a recall, I do another post. Look how retailers and consumers are using...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 12:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, microsoft, Medical Devices, Pharma, FDA, Twitter, cell phones, Recalls, Scanning, Abbot Labs, MicrosoftTags, luddites

Social Media Managers for Healthcare–Hospitals and Other Organizations–Hire The Experienced For the Best Payoff

First of all, small disclaimer here, I do this for a couple organizations and has it paid off, yes, so feel free to inquire at any time on how this works, as it does. Everyone knows me as the Medical Quack on Twitter, Facebook and of course the...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2010 12:27 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Health IT, Facebook, Blogs, Hospitals, Twitter, Medical Quack, Doctors, information, communication, Media, Social Networking

Molina Healthcare Moves Into Texas to Provide Healthcare Services for Low Income Children and Pregnant Women in Rural Counties With Subsidiary Molina Healthcare of Texas Insurance Company

Molina Healthcare has been expanding their services to rural areas and earlier this year launched their telemedicine program in California, with our Governor attending the launch. In there expansion there have been a few bumps in the road as you...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2010 1:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Cisco, Mobility, HMO, Twitter, California, Telehealth, governor, Texas, Web visits, Molina Healthcare, Unisys

Nuance Introduces Dragon Medical Enterprise Network Edition, Advanced Capabilities Accelerate EHR Meaningful Use Running on Citrix

The enterprise version is for practices with 25 or more users and nice that it runs from the server where all speech files are stored securely. It was just last month that Nuance announced mobile medical search for the IPhone. Nuance Dragon...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2010 2:50 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Health IT, Facebook, Nuance, Twitter, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Speech Recognition, iPhone, Dragon Dictation app, Citrix, pdf reader

Stephen Colbert Talks Social Media–Eric Schmidt Says You Should Not Make Mistakes and You Can Change Your Life

This is funny and talks about how social networks function , your online pass could destroy your real life future he says. It does no good to stay away as other can post items. You can be the ideal job candidate with creating a “none” identity...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2010 9:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Humor, Stephen Colbert, Social Media

SEEDIE (Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHRs) Self Certifies For ARRA Funds-Got Tired of Waiting for ONC

We like humor too and for 30k you can get a “Seedie” Certification. Sometimes the other side of my brain thinks there might be some folks that should pursue this <grin>, just kidding of course but we all have moments when we might feel our EMR is...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 1:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, healthcare, Twitter, Humor, Medical Humor, Meaningful Use, ARRA, Extormity, Seedie

Molina Delayed Medicaid Provider Payments in Idaho– Working to Get the System Fixed–Good Example of Why IT Literate Individuals Need to be in Key Positions To Explain & Fix

I guess it was this system they purchased from Unisys that is causing the problem. I think we are experiencing a time when decisions are made, it is extremely important to have an IT person around with some hands on experience as otherwise sometimes...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 1:06 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Cisco, Mobility, HMO, Twitter, California, Telehealth, governor, Web visits, Molina Healthcare, Unisys, Idaho

Nuance Dragon Medical Mobile Search Now Available From the Apple App Store

Recently the desktop version of Dragon was released and now with the iPhone application speech recognition comes to the phone with being able to speak and search with a query and will include mapping to ICD-9, ICD-10, CPT®, and SNOMED CT terminology. ...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2010 9:00 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Health IT, Facebook, Nuance, Twitter, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Speech Recognition, iPhone, Dragon Dictation app, app store, pdf reader

The Story Behind The Building of Healthcare. Gov - 90 Day Creation, Help From Twitter and the Silicon Valley Made It Possible

The website designer was found via Twitter, so any of you that don’t take value in what Twitter can do to connect, think again. Most of the people on the project had been on the committee for quite a while. Tech Crunch digs in and gets a...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2010 3:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, health insurance, Twitter, HHS, Patients, Pricing, Certification, Algorithms, websites, consumers, Silicon Valley, Healthcare.gov, web site

Nuance Releasing Version 11 of Dragon Naturally Speaking Soon With More Accuracy And Some Other Improved Visual/Functionality Features

If it wasn’t for speech recognition, blogging would be difficult, and yet I do use it. I also switch around and use the free speech recognition from Microsoft too, depends on what I am doing and how long I will be using dictation at any one sitting. ...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2010 8:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Health IT, Facebook, Nuance, Twitter, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Speech Recognition, iPhone, Dragon Dictation app, pdf reader

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