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Stolen Bristol-Myers Squibb Products–Truck Heist–When Are We Going to Bar Code Drugs and Medica Devices–Scan With Cell Phone
“mHealth Moving Faster than Expected”–Did Someone Just Wake Up–It’s Been Moving Fast For a Number of Years
Tax Cannabis–California Proposition 19 On the Ballot–The New Leaf To Help the Economy
MED3OOO (Company with Tenet Analytics Joint Venture Solution) Acquires Insurance Solutions Group - Subsidiary Watch
Steve Jobs Attends Governor Schwarzenegger’s Signing The Legislation to Create Nation’s First Kidney Donor Registry in California- It Was His Idea and Work To Push It Through

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Stolen Bristol-Myers Squibb Products–Truck Heist–When Are We Going to Bar Code Drugs and Medica Devices–Scan With Cell Phone

It keeps happening along with recalls, but nobody has done a thing and yet the technology is here to help. Eli Lilly Pill Heist in Connecticut – Worth a Few Million on the Black Market And Should Have Been “Tagged” for Identification To Help Identify...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2010 3:29 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Surface, PHR, FDA, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Microsoft Tags, Connected Conference, Heat Map, Bing, BristolMyers-Squibb
“mHealth Moving Faster than Expected”–Did Someone Just Wake Up–It’s Been Moving Fast For a Number of Years

Back in the middle of 2007 I was listening and talking about Craig Mundie from Microsoft and what they were doing in 3rd world countries with supplying cell phones that work and help those who can’t read. Now we are trying to help and show value...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2010 5:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Windows Mobile, healthcare, health insurance, Cell phone, Medical Devices, Heatlhcare, wireless, blue tooth, Fitbit, devices that report data, biometric monitoring, Muve
Tax Cannabis–California Proposition 19 On the Ballot–The New Leaf To Help the Economy

This is an interesting video and goes over how it would work if passed. Tax Revenue from the sale would help reduce some of the Mexican gang crimes and put street dealers out of business it says. The video also says it will create jobs too...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2010 8:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Budgets, California, Heatlhcare, Advertising, Marijuana, teamsters, Marjyn Investments, factory, Proposition 19, New Leaf
MED3OOO (Company with Tenet Analytics Joint Venture Solution) Acquires Insurance Solutions Group - Subsidiary Watch

The joint venture with Tenet was announced in May of 2009. You can also read more on the Med3000 website here with their activities with Tenet. This involved a medical records system as well as practice management software and below...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2010 1:51 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, EMR, healthcare, health insurance, EHR, Business Intelligence, Tenet, Hospitals, Heatlhcare, Admissions, Profits, Med3000, goals, algoirthms, Insurance Solutions Groups
Steve Jobs Attends Governor Schwarzenegger’s Signing The Legislation to Create Nation’s First Kidney Donor Registry in California- It Was His Idea and Work To Push It Through

Today the governor signs this into law and Steve Jobs as you may or may not be aware of was very active in getting this legislation started, being a transplant patient himself a short while back. The bill passed unanimously through both California...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2010 4:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Heatlhcare, Transplants, Steve Jobs, state laws, kidneys, kidney donor Registry, Schwarzenegger. laws
Smartphone Scanning Coming to Best Buy and Staples on Canon Products–FDA Recalls In This Same Fashion Would Be Nice With Microsoft Tags As We Have No System Right Now

I have many posts on this topic and just yesterday I looked at my Tag Heat Map – awesome. There are some cereals in the super market that have Tags too. Microsoft Tag Bar Codes–Who’s Been Scanning the Medical Quack–The Bing Heat Map Tells All And...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 2:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Windows Mobile, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Cell phone, Surface, PHR, FDA, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Heat Map, Bing, MicrosoftTags, Canon
German Government Healthcare Reform Law Signed–With Plenty of Critics And Includes Spending Cuts for Doctors

Like the US, Germany’s system has the reputation of being one of the most expensive in the world. The new increases will result in premiums costs rising to 15.5 percent of employee gross pay effective January 1st. Patients will now be required...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 11:40 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, medical billing, Medical Tourism, Heatlhcare, Politics, Patients, Cost, Germany, interview, insurance agent
Microsoft Tag Bar Codes–Who’s Been Scanning the Medical Quack–The Bing Heat Map Tells All And Could Help Find Stolen or Expired Drugs and Devices With This Methodology

Ok remember a while back where I said stolen drugs could be located with Tags, well here we have a suggestion or an idea, a heat map from Bing. The products could be tagged by “lot” number and/or products. Obviously on a large scale we are...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2010 2:42 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Surface, PHR, FDA, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Microsoft Tags, Connected Conference, Heat Map, Bing
Medical Marijuana News in California–First TV Ad Airs in California And Workers At Marijuana Factory Join the Teamsters

The commercial has been getting mixed reactions on whether or not the advertising should be allowed on TV. There were no pictures of the product or anything showing use, just the commercial of 30 seconds talking about it. In another news story...

Published Sat, Sep 09 2010 1:58 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, California, Heatlhcare, Advertising, Medical Marijuana, teamsters, Marjyn Investments, factor
Healthcare Data Breach Cases Reported Outnumber Financial Breaches by over 3 to 1

The number certainly outweighs the number but the number of records and people affected, the banking industry still wins that honor . The article goes on to state that most in healthcare are not break ins with servers, but rather people moving data...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 8:50 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, Heatlhcare, Banking, Data, encryption, security breaches, financial
Windpipe Stem Cell Surgery– Regenerative Medicine Offering Solution to Cancer Patients

Back in 2008 a similar story broke in the news with a donor being located for surgery to replace a woman’s windpipe. The donor windpipe was stripped of all cells leaving a platform or scaffold to build upon and the good part about stem cell transplants...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2010 1:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Surgery, healthcare, Cancer, Heatlhcare, R and D, Stem Cells, Transplants, windpipe, breatkthrough, Regenerative Medicine, trachea
Merck Set to Close 8 Research and Development Facilities – Kendall Square in Cambridge MA Included

This is both a continued merging of resources with the purchase of Schering Plough and better utilization of present facilities. Merck is heavy in cash resources too and a few months ago purchased Millipore in Massachusetts which is an outsourcing...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2010 1:42 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, microsoft, Pharma, Merck, Heatlhcare, Research and Development, Life Sciences, chemicals, Millipore, acquisitions and mergers
Germany Increases Premiums for Health Insurance Through Government Plan and Looks to Cut Expenses

Back in April things were already stirring relative to to charges from hospitals and in Germany they can also opt for additional private health insurance as well as contributing to the government system. With the new increases the poor will be protected...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2010 5:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, health insurance, EHR, medical billing, PHR, HealthVault, Medical Tourism, Heatlhcare, Politics, Patients, Cost, Germany, insurance agent, Dr Horst Kunhardt
The Next Phase of Accelerometers – Sensors In Healthcare that Detect Motion Like What’s in Your Iphone

If you have an IPhone, then you know what I am talking about as it reacts to how it is positioned. This is a good article about the next wave that is up and coming and being promoted by HP, so I guess we can now say that soon we will have a “smart...

Published Fri, May 05 2010 1:59 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, health insurance, Cell phone, Medical Devices, Heatlhcare, UnitedHealthcare, Sensors, wireless, monitoring devices, blue tooth, Ingenix, Wellness Coaches, Red Brick, Fitbit, devices that report data, HP, biometric monitoring, Muve
Microsoft Tags in Healthcare – Comments and Demonstration at “Microsoft Connected Conference” with Surface

Now the big job is to get an open ear from the FDA too so all device companies, drug companies could maintain a synchronized data base and this could even go up into a cloud depending on design. Just think the FDA having an automated update system...

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

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, EHR, Surface, PHR, FDA, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, RFID, Heatlhcare, Safety, Microsoft Tags, Connected Conference

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