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Microsoft Surface 2.0 For Healthcare With Advanced Touch Capabilities, Bar Codes and You Can Hang It on the Wall

I watched the keynote last night from CES too and Surface is evolving. Not everyone may want a table set, so with the new slim design, it goes on the wall now. The new Surface unit is from Samsung and runs Windows 7. After the key note too I easily...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 3:15 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Medical Records, Cell phone, Surface, PHR, FDA, Personal Health Records, Healthvaut, Recalls, EOB, Windows Tags, 2D Bar Code

Tylenol 8-Hour Caplets With Odor Recalled–More Potential Snake Bait Becomes Available

I’m not kidding on the snake bait here as I am sure the snakes and mice would not have a problem as Tylenol products are used to kill the brown tree snakes in Guam that are taking over. Dead mice are packed up and loaded with Tylenol and dropped from...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2010 8:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, FDA, cell phones, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, information, Scanning, Acetaminophen, Tylenol, Windows Tags, mice, Guam, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, radio, brown snake, Brown Tree Snake

Interpol's Internet-targeted Operation Seizes $2.6m Of Illegal Drugs–Education Campaign With Buying Drugs Online–Real Horror Stories

Interpol the multi nation police agency has their own campaign warning individuals about buying medications online. In this first video below the woman who bought weight loss drugs has not become a diabetic for life, who was not one before. ...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2010 2:21 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Windows Mobile, drugs, tags, BlackBerry, Mobility, FDA, cell phones, information, Scanning, iPhone, Windows Tags, RazCode, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare, online pharmacies, Interpol

Johnson and Johnson Consumer Group Chairman Colleen Goggins Announces Retirement Effective March 1, 2011

The letter of announcement from Bill Weldon is shown below. We keep seeing many top executives from all areas of healthcare and government following this process. It’s complicated out there today and technology is running a muck on those who...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 6:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, FDA, cell phones, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, information, Scanning, Windows Tags, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare, Colleen Goggins, McNeil Consumer, Bill Weldon

Bausch & Lomb Recall - PreserVision® Eye Vitamin AREDS 2 Formula in the United States – Where’s The Bar Coding Tags to Make Identification Available To Scan With Cell Phone for Consumers?

Well this is another area where the use of bar coding Microsoft Tags would have come in handy. Certainly the retailers will do their part, but having a cell phone to scan and find would be marvelous and what if they miss some products and are still...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2010 6:55 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, BlackBerry, FDA, cell phones, information, Bausch and Lomb, Scanning, iPhone, Windows Tags, RazCode, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare

Johnson and Johnson (McNeil) Lays Off 300 Employees and Will Re-Tool the Tylenol Factory

Other factory locations are slated to pick up some of the manufacturing as the factory will more than likely be closed until about this time next year according to this article. It takes time to get a whole new lot of machines in place, and at the...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 7:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, FDA, cell phones, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, information, Scanning, Windows Tags, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare, McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Bristol-Myers Squibb Voluntary Recall of Coumadin (R) 1 mg Tablet Blister Packs – Need To Be Able to Scan With A Cell Phone To Find Recalled Products

Recalls of both medical devices and drugs are growing for a number of reasons. First of all, we have a lot more information available today than what we have ever had and we need to capitalize on this opportunity quickly. We read in...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2010 7:00 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, FDA, cell phones, Recalls, information, Scanning, Windows Tags, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare, Coumadin, Bristol-MyersSquib

Recall of Tylenol Expands on Adult Products – Smelly Chemical Issue – Bar Coding with Tags Really Needed To Alleviate Confusion and Problems Finding Products

More recalled products and this issue goes back to the adult products that were recalled a while back. You can read about the prior posts on the children’s products below. Johnson and Johnson McNeil Healthcare Group Recalls Children’s Over the Counter...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 3:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, FDA, cell phones, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, information, Scanning, role models, Windows Tags, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, HHSInsurance

FDA Plans Recall Data Base – Nice Still Need Tags on the Products So We Can Find Them Immediately

Anyone who reads the blog regularly knows about my 6 month plus campaign where I have been advocating 3D and2D barcodes, also known as Microsoft Tags. If you have a chance enter your vote before you leave this page and let me know if you would value...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2010 10:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, drugs, tags, BlackBerry, Mobility, FDA, Personal Health Records, cell phones, Recalls, information, Scanning, iPhone, Windows Tags, RazCode, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare

More Children’s Medicine at J and J Recalled – We Need Ability to Scan Products With Our Phones - Be Sure to Vote

As consumers this would be nice to be able to scan products and not have to worry about missing a recall post somewhere on the news. There will be other drug and device recalls too so the sooner we have this capability the sooner we can get...

Published Fri, May 05 2010 7:35 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Windows Mobile, drugs, tags, BlackBerry, Mobility, FDA, cell phones, Recalls, information, Scanning, iPhone, Windows Tags, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare

Microsoft Tag Officially Out of Beta – New Features And Tag Format Added - Suggestions for Healthcare/FDA Use

If you have been reading here at the Medical Quack I have several posts on how Tags can work in healthcare and you can follow the link below to read more and here’s a couple paragraphs from the introduction area. French, Spanish, Turkish, Simplified...

Published Thu, May 05 2010 2:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, drugs, tags, BlackBerry, Mobility, FDA, cell phones, Recalls, information, Scanning, iPhone, Windows Tags, RazCode, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare

Microsoft Tags – Microsoft MSDN Posts Ideas from the Medical Quack About Use in Healthcare!

If you are a regular reader here at the Quack, I have had a small campaign going on with posts about how this technology could solve a lot of issues, main one being some ideas with recalls at the FDA. Microsoft Tags was kind enough today to include...

Published Wed, May 05 2010 5:55 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, drugs, tags, BlackBerry, Mobility, FDA, Personal Health Records, cell phones, Recalls, information, Scanning, iPhone, Windows Tags, RazCode, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare

FDA Has Issues with Bacterial Found In Tylenol – Risk To Consumers Is Remote But Lab Facilities Are Needed For Testing

Here’s the link to the original post I made over the weekend that has the links to all the sites where you can go to find out what to take back and in some cases get your money back too. The lack of a lab facility is especially bothersome as perhaps...

Published Tue, May 05 2010 6:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, Medical Devices, FDA, cell phones, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, information, Scanning, Windows Tags, safely, tech denial, medical devices. heatlhcare, McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Johnson and Johnson McNeil Healthcare Group Recalls Children’s Over the Counter Liquid Medications

The company stated that the chances of any harm are pretty remote, and the problem relates to the inactive ingredients that do not meet normal standards. You can read the official announcement at the FDA website here. Below is a sample of...

Published Sat, May 05 2010 12:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, tags, FDA, cell phones, Johnson and Johnson, Recalls, information, Scanning, Windows Tags, safely, medical devices. heatlhcare, McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Microsoft Tag is now in TV Guide – We Could Use These Too In Healthcare at the FDA For Recalled Devices and Finding Stolen Drugs

I really like this technology and it is interesting to see it emerge in entertainment and I would like to see this same technology save lives too, if we can wake up the FDA and some of the drug and device companies to at least take a look. Scan...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2010 2:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, drugs, tags, FDA, cell phones, Recalls, information, Scanning, Windows Tags, RazCode, medica devices. heatlhcare, safely, stupid, tech denial

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