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Desperate Patients - Man stole pal's identity to pay for bypass surgery

Identity theft has reached a new plateau. How does one feel about a story like this, as he needed the surgery to save his life and he felt there was no other alternative. What he did was not right by any shape or form, but again, when threatened...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 11:09 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, medical, Medicaid, identity theft, Fraud, Heart Surgery

Medical Quack Speed Reader Preview Widget – This blog and other Medical Bloggers…

Ducknet Services - Health Care IT Consulting This is a bit of a speed reader if you will for headlines, only a short preview with only the latest posts, so if you can’t use RSS Readers at work or just want a quick alternative, this could be a help...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 12:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, microsoft, medical, RSS Feeds, Office Live, Healthcare News, Widget, Blog

Medical data the next big thing in stolen information

Outsourced 3 party security vendors play a big role today and are almost imperative to have on networks today and this story relates to some pretty disturbing information found in cache on servers located outside the US. Data contained Citrix credentials...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2008 11:24 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Medical Records, medical, identity theft, criminal organizations, patient information, suspect medical information, organizations, insurance fraud, bank account information

Online Prescription drug database coming to California

One of the most difficult trails to trace has been to find out what medications a patient is using. In many instances, without having the records tied together, a patient can literally be seeing 4-5 doctors to get the same drugs, mostly pain killers...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 1:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, medical, Prescriptions, e-Presdribing

Rate a Pill - the Latest in the Medical Rating Game..

Well one more rating game...drugs...we can currently rate hospitals, doctors, so here's the latest addition...read the article for links to the sites for participation...the one list nobody wants to make of course is Worstpills.org , catchy name....

Published Wed, May 05 2008 10:23 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Medicine, medical, Pharma, Rate, Pills

EMR deadline does not compute: Falling short of 2014 goals

The article goes into detail on the many reasons...insurers are the bigger benefactors...and some states like Massachusetts are coming up to the plate with the E-health collaborative pilot project...and one other comment of importance ..."EMRs are...

Published Sun, May 05 2008 10:28 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, medical, Health Care, Health IT, Electronic Medical Records

Gene Genie - Blog Carnival of Genes and Genetics

If you want to read up on the latest genomics information, this is a good grouping of articles to view...a blog carnival is a mixture of some of the best articles written during a period of time, so you don't have to search the web page by page ....

Published Sun, May 05 2008 11:58 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Genetics, personalized medicine, Genomics, Science Roll, medical, Genes

Medicare fee cuts could devastate rehabilitation services

Medicare requires patients to obtain a referral from a physician to see a therapist...well it rolls downhill ....less physicians seeing Medicare patients, less rehabilitation without the referral ...and if the bill for rehab services is over the cap,...

Published Thu, May 05 2008 5:48 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Physician, Rehabilitation, medicare, patient care, medical

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