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Clinical trials – More education and better business models needed at the point of care

The general public as a whole are lost when it comes to the complete understanding of how a clinical trial can benefit their potential treatment plans. There is enough information on the web by all means, but how do you get the information to an...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2008 11:19 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, drugs, healthcare, EHR, Pharma, PHR, clinical trials, Software integration, Point of Care, Personalized Clinical Trials

Aetna and Costco create yet another prescription program

One more program to confuse us when needing a prescription, although I’m sure there is money to be saved here, but shoot I like the $4.00 or $10.00 generic prescriptions offered by others, no enrollment and no questions asked, simple. For the monthly...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 12:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Medicare Part D, Aetna, Pharmacy, Costco

Leading Medical Groups Advise Against Avandia – FDA to Research – Education Needed

I will once more mention a potential change of paradigms here with educating the public. Each patient who took the drug is unique. Do we have any information on other drugs they were taking at the same time? Groups will continue to...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 2:27 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, PHR, FDA, Marketing, paradigms, personal heatlh records

E-Prescribing Reminder – Effective January 1, Medicare will pay 2% bonus to those who use a “Qualified” program or system

A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 10:57 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing

SERMO CONNECTS HEALTHCARE INVESTORS TO PHYSICIANS VIA BLOOMBERG

Investors and analysts using The Healthcare Exchange will be able to ask questions of physicians, such as their opinions about a new treatment or device. Sermo has been a community website restricted to physicians to compare and collaborate within...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 2:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Investors, Physicians, Prescriptions, clinical trials, Sermo, Bloomberg, MCconnect, opinions

Patients Seek Financial Aid to Buy Medications

I keep a constant listing here with links to the $4.00 prescriptions as well as a link to Needy Meds. Anyone can take advantage of the $4.00 prescriptions and with Needy Meds there are guidelines to meet as far as income. The $4.00 Kroger generic...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2008 11:13 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Economy, Patients, needy meds

Rite Aid Faces Delisting on the Stock Exchange..

The company has 6 months to get the shares up above $1.00 or it goes to the junk category and off the big board. Drug stores are feeling the pinch of the economic slow down, depending on where the stood financially before hand, has an effect on...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2008 1:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Pharmaceuticals, Stocks, Rite Aid

The 2 New Hot Words in Healthcare: Algorithms and Whistleblowers

This story about Walgreens illustrates a little bit of both. After the economy and Wall Street news of the last couple of weeks, we should know now about how programmers set algorithms to select, process and deliver data. Need a refresher...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2008 3:56 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Medicaid, Medications, Medicare contractor, Whistle Blower, Data, Data Base, Algorithms

25,000 U.S. physicians download free drug info software for Iphone – Epocrates

By far one of the best tools out there and as a consumer there is a lot of information too on the free version, easy to find the various tiers for coverage and drug interactions. I also have the web based look up on the blog, so use it to look up...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 12:31 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, drugs, healthcare, software, Epocrates

Illegal Drugs Finding their way into research and development

Interesting article with some good background information about drugs that are close to or are related to the "street drugs" as we know them. There are definitely a number of researchers who want to delve into this further, but with bad...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 4:44 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, FDA, DEA, R and D, street drugs

Walgreen CEO: Bad Economy Hurts Prescriptions

This is not the first time this issue has been in the news in the last couple of years, but the dollars, or lack of dollars perhaps bring this to light once more, and once more it all comes back to money. There are some interesting efforts going on to...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2008 10:28 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, Prescriptions, Aetna, Health Insurance Coverage

How to Create a Blockbuster - Are there 50 ways?

Interesting correlation on how the move business and Pharma share similar business plans when it comes to producing a blockbuster drug. R and D, yup, got high costs with both, unpredictable, yup, nobody knows until the release, budgets and flops...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2008 10:59 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, drugs, healthcare, Pharma, blockbusters

Drugs for Death, Not Life

Stories like this are sad indeed. It comes back to the dollar and someone playing "God" to determine who gets treatment and who does not. Granted personalized medicine tests will help in time, not only from the actual treatment side...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 10:47 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Cancer

Insurance companies deny coverage based on medications a patient is taking obtained from marketing reports…

One more way for the information to run queries to cherry pick applicants is accomplished. When you apply for insurance, the fine writing will usually state that you are giving permission to check any medical information and records and, yes, this...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 5:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, drugs, healthcare, health insurance, Prescriptions, Pharmaceuticals, Medications

As Costs Shift to Patients, Fewer Fill Prescriptions, Maybe…

With the current economic downturn, prescriptions are not necessarily being filled, in other words, patients are not following doctor’s orders. This has another potential issue as well when it comes to pay for performance for physicians too. ...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 10:15 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, Prescriptions, Economy

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