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Microsoft's Mundie gives campuses peek at Tech's future – Tablet PC

Nice picture on the tablet – a demonstration of synapses in the brain, and we all know how important Tablet PCs are to health care. A couple weeks ago I posted about his presentation at MIT , where there were a number of software and hardware .png...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 3:03 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Tablet PC, Education, University, Recruiting, Craig Mundie

Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk

This is pretty wild technology to say the least, a robot suit that will increase your mobility power up to 10 times of what you normally have. The rates certainly are not cheap to rent one of these and is charged “by the leg”. I wonder what...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 12:24 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Mobility, Seniors, Japan, Spinal Cord Injuries, Disabilities, HAL

Silverlight Books - all books on Microsoft Silverlight Development

Hard Hat Area: If are thinking about learning more about Silverlight need some material, this is the place for the books, new website called: http://www.silverlightbooks.net/ . If are a developer with medical software, perhaps...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 11:42 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Technology, Other Items of Interest, Microsoft/Windows News, healthcare, microsoft, Silverlight, Developers, software

75 Million Dollar Donation To Create Nation's Largest Stem Cell Research Center At Stanford

Previously he has donated $20 million to Stanford for the Lorry I. Lokey Laboratory Building, which houses research labs for the departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences. He founded Business Wire, the international public relations wire...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 11:24 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Biotech, R and D, Stem Cells, Stanford University, Donation, Philanthropy

Mercy unveils Epic Medical Records System - Kansas

One more hospital making the transition. Also the rural and surrounding areas will be connected to the same system to enter chart information from their locations as well. The new system from Epic replaces older technology at Mercy called...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 10:06 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Epic

Sentinel Initiative Boosts FDA Safety Oversight

The FDA Sentinel data mining system is still in the beginning stages and the explanation of how it works sounds interesting in the fact that it will be able to query and mine data to create an overall reference, but the article states they are not creating...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 11:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, FDA, HHS, Data Mining, Drug Safety, Sentinel

Air Jordan Prosthetic Leg Branding

Prosthetics are coming in all shapes sizes and now brands? Being of the female gender here I wonder if the next brand out might be designed with a feminine touch, like a “Candy”s” prosthetic leg? BD Branded Prosthetics not only adds...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 9:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Prosthetics, Nike, Air Jordan

National Institutes Of Health Launches ClinicalTrials Results Database

This is bringing everything full circle with not only being able to research trials, but results will now be listed as well. As you can see it literally took an “act of Congress” to get the ball rolling. In time as reporting begins the web...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 9:47 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, clinical trials, NIH, ClinicalTrials.gov., MedlinePlus

When you are denied health insurance

I think we saw this same story in Sicko, almost the exact same story so must be more of this going around with irregular periods now being a basis for denying insurance coverage. Another woman was turned down due to "history of infertility"...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 5:58 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Claims, pre-existing conditions, Sicko

The Silent Epidemic of Health Illiteracy – A Physician’s Opinion

Good article written by a physician who obviously has taken notice. I see the same things within offices as well, as folks do not take a few minutes every day to read, but I can still see, let’s say the medical assistants going to the PC to watch...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 4:38 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Illiteracy

Physician Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 - IPC-The Hospitalist Company

He also created IPC-Link, an evolving proprietary electronic management system that provides clinical, administrative, billing and communication support for IPC’s hospitalists and used technology to connect the employed hospitalists. Technology...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 4:01 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Hospitals, Primary Care, Hospitalists, Venture Capitalists, IPC Company

Benefits Vendor Adds Assessment Tool

One more analysis program to drive employees and employers nuts in the search for recommendations for improving health and reducing risk , I would prefer my doctor giving me the sites and information to read as he is the qualified person who has my chart...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 3:14 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, healthcare, health insurance, Risk Management, Blue Shield

Bringing Providers, Health Care Executives and Administrators into the 21st Century

Below we have 2 different physicians, one who embraces technology so much to the fact that she has become an technology evangelist to help and convince other physicians to “buy in”, and she works as an emergency ER physician too. The second physician...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 2:15 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Tablet PCs, Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, Windows Mobile, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, CIO, CEO, Health IT, Tablet PC, Physicians, PDA, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dictation, Speech Recognition, CTO, COO, Meetings, Windows Journal

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month - American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Co-Sponsor

There is a full web page dedicated with several links to obtain the basic information; FAQs can be found here. Get the facts is another site that may be of interest as well. BD Helpful Clinical Trial Information. The American College...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2008 12:05 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Education, Cancer, Breast Cancer, R and D, Breast Cancer Awareness, Treatment

LAC+USC Hospital – New Facility to Open Soon - Los Angeles

This is just such a massive improvement to open soon, and going from night to day it deserved some pictures and recognition. Half a million out patients per year are seen here. The opening has been delayed a couple times but it appears it...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2008 11:25 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Los Angeles, Historical Buildings, Hosptials, LAC+USC Medical Center, USC Medical School, Keck School of Medicine of USC, LA General Hospital

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